antecedents

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英 [æn\'tɪsi:dnts]

美 [æn\'tɪsidnts]

antecedents意思解释

n.

经历( antecedent的名词复数 )；

（比例）前项；

前件；

祖先

英英释义

n.

someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)

同义词：ancestorascendantascendentroot

a preceding occurrence or cause or event

anything that precedes something similar in time

\"phrenology was an antecedent of modern neuroscience\"

同义词：forerunner

the referent of an anaphor; a phrase or clause that is referred to by an anaphoric pronoun

adj.

preceding in time or order

同义词：preceding

双语例句

That was antecedent to this event.那是在这件事之前。