英 [ˌæntɪˈsiːd(ə)nt] 美 [ˌæntɪˈsiːd(ə)nt]
n. 先例，前身；祖先，社会与家庭背景（antecedents）；先行词，前述词；（逻辑）前件
adj. 先时的，先前的；（语法）先行的
复数antecedents
antecedent /ˌæntɪˈsiːdənt/ TEM4
可数名词 An antecedent of something happened or existed before it and was similar to it in some way. 先例
We shall first look briefly at the historical antecedents of this theory.
我们首先简要地回顾一下该理论历史上的先例。
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
preceding in time or order
同义词： preceding
影响因素-引用次数：12
Different from the previous researches, this study adds two antecedent variables, faith in peers and faith in management.
与前人研究不同的是,本研究补充了同事信任和管理层信任两个组织影响因素。
先行词-引用次数：19
Anaphora resolution is one of the most challenging tasks in language understanding inthe way that the relationship between the antecedent and the referential pronoun varies fromsentence to sentence.
在语言理解范畴中,照应分析是最具挑战性的课题之一,因为先行词和指称代词的关系会因句子的不同而不同。
参考来源人称指示语照应用法的认知研究
先行语-引用次数：10
The process of affirming the antecedent referred by zero anaphora is called reference confirmation, which is an indispensable contextual understanding.
确定回指语所指的先行语的过程称为指代确认(或指代释义)。 指代确认是文本理解不可缺少的内容。
参考来源汉语零形回指的多视角研究
先行项-引用次数：3
先行句-引用次数：3
先行词-引用次数：7
This research is designed to explore three text factors that influence the accessibility of antecedents: referential distance between the anaphor and its antecedent(anaphoric distance),the elaboration of distractor, the typicality of distractor.
本研究首先探讨影响先行词通达的文本因素，回指距离、干扰词的精细描述、干扰词的典型性对回指推理的影响。
参考来源篇章阅读中回指推理的影响因素研究
先行语-引用次数：4
The last phase is using those examples to estimate whether a new noun phase is the antecedent of the pronominal anaphora.
第三步即可根据这些实例判断新输入的名词短语是否为代词的先行语。
先行
先成的
前件，前提
前项
前件的，前提的
前驱征
前质
祖先
定义l：综合知识(GeneralKnowledge)由三部分组成：知识前件(Antecedent)、知识后件 (Consequent)，及知识前件与知识后件之间的映 射(Mapping)，知识前件是对问题的形式描述，知识后件是对解的形式描述，...
定语从句(theattributiveclause):在复合句中,修饰某词或代词的从句叫定语从句.在句子中起定语作用.2.先行词(antecedent):被定语修饰的词叫先行词.定语从句TheAttributiveClause二.
普遍佢哋系A设前因（Antecedent）B设 信心 （ Belief ）C设后果（Consequence）：
...外，若比喻为规则系统，则资料连结架构，可以看作是一个简单的同步规则系统： 来源端资料的异动与否，可以看做前提（Antecedent），而目的端资料的异动便成了结 论（Consequent）；来源与目的端的资料同步，刚好就是前提匹配直接带动结论套用， 是非常直觉的规...
antecedently 在前，在先
antecedence 先行；居先；在先
antecedency 先行，在前；逆行
In 'He grabbed the ball and threw it in the air', 'ball' is the antecedent of 'it'.
在He grabbed the ball and threw it in the air一句中，ball是it的先行词。
You have sufficient reason for affirming the antecedent.
你有充分的理由肯定先例。
Upon contracting government projects, the antecedent money for bidding may be reduced by up to 50%.
承揽政府工程时，押标金、得降低百分之五十以下。
It doesn't, in other words, derive from an antecedent single cause as an effect.
换句话说，它不是，作为结果来自单一的先行的原因。
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Once we get up there, that's sort of the end of the antecedent phrase and we have a chord change.
前分句在这个高音部分结束，那是前分钟的结尾和弦发生转变。
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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.
但当你在法律背景下以一种比较的观点看待它时，会发现它驳倒了存在于先前的和同时代的,法律体系中的阶级差异,例如，汉穆拉比法典。
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Obama, throughout his career, has faced a challenge in how best to manage his political antecedent.
The necessary antecedent to those powerful rules was, naturally, a congressional investigation: the Pecora Commission.
The map, at least, has no historic, real-world antecedent the constellations on the table's surface are entirely her own.