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。
牛津词典
antecedent events
先前的事件
牛津词典
It was permissible to take account of antecedent legislation.
允许考虑先前的法律。
...a Frenchman with Irish antecedents.
祖先为爱尔兰人的法国人
We shall first look briefly at the historical antecedents of this theory.
我们首先应大致看一下该理论在历史上的前身。
We provide a Chinese layout analysis method with antecedent non _ text regions for this characteristic.
针对这种特点,本文提出了一种非文本块优先的中文版面分析方法.
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Put simply law of causality states that every material effect must have an adequate antecedent cause.
简单地说,因果法则就是任何物质结果都必须有充分的前因.
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The name antecedent to his birth.
名字在他出生前就取好了.
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The decision not to invite Joe was antecedent to his illness.
不邀请乔的决定是在他生病之前决定的.
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The antecedent is evident in the case of the form.
但我们还是提供一个证明.
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Did you notice any sign antecedent to the accident?
这事故之前,你注意到什么迹象了 吗 ?
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But it cannot account for the case when the pronouns any nearby prior antecedent.
但是它却不能用来解释代词前无明显先行词的情况.
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Phrenology was an antecedent of modern nEuroscience.
颅相学是现代神经系统科学的前身.
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The word " man " is the antecedent of " who " in " the man who spoke ".
" man " 这个字是"theman who spoke " 中 " who " 的先行词.
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Events antecedent to the war failed to serve as a warning of the threat.
先于战争的一些事件未能警告人们有关战争的威胁.
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This is an antecedent of the war.
这是战争的前因.
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An association rule is still uninteresting if are negatively correlated items in its antecedent or consequent.
当规则的前件或后件存在负相关的项时,仍然可能产生无意义的关联规则.
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Something out mind always has antecedent.
意想不到的事情总是有其前因的.
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The managerial nature of the word has further antecedent to French speakers.
对于说法语的人来说,这个具管理意味的词还有更早的前身.
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Those were events antecedent to the revolution.
这些都是革命前的事了.
《简明英汉词典》
Physical processes flow inevitably from their antecedent conditions.
物理过程的出现必然有其前提.
哲学部分
That's an antecedent standard. Moral desert.
道德应得, 那是一个先行标准.
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There is a Biblical antecedent for some of the issues raised by this passage.
有一个圣经故事关于该段中提出的问题.
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That was antecedent to this event.
那是在这件事之前.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
It was permissible to take account of antecedent legislation.
允许考虑先前的法律。
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