antecedent

常见例句

That's an antecedent standard. Moral desert.
道德應得，那是一個先行標準。
This may seem like pure success—brilliance, or its antecedent anyway.
這看起來可能就是單純的成功——卓越，或者它的祖先。
Some patients state that lesions develop at the site of antecedent trauma.
一些患者指出，病灶出現在先前的創傷部位。

It doesn't, in other words, derive from an antecedent single cause as an effect.
換句話說，它不是，作爲結果來自單一的先行的原因。
耶魯公開課 - 文學理論導論課程節選
Once we get up there, that's sort of the end of the antecedent phrase and we have a chord change.
前分句在這個高音部分結束，那是前分鍾的結尾和弦發生轉變。
耶魯公開課 - 聆聽音樂課程節選
But when you look at it in a comparative light in its legal context, we see that it's a polemic against the class distinctions that were being drawn in antecedent and contemporary legal systems, such as the Code of Hammurabi.
但儅你在法律背景下以一種比較的觀點看待它時，會發現它駁倒了存在於先前的和同時代的,法律躰系中的堦級差異,例如，漢穆拉比法典。
耶魯公開課 - 舊約導論課程節選

Obama, throughout his career, has faced a challenge in how best to manage his political antecedent.
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The necessary antecedent to those powerful rules was, naturally, a congressional investigation: the Pecora Commission.
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' So you know people do have a historical antecedent to this.
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