| 释义 |
| | | | NOUN | | | | | /ˌæntɪˈsiːdnt/ | | | | | 1 | C formal something that happened or existed before something else and is similar to it in some way 前事；先例 | | | | 2 | antecedents plural formal the members of your family who lived a long time ago 祖先；祖宗 | | | | 3 | C linguistics the antecedent of a word is the noun or phrase nearer the beginning of the sentence that it refers to . In the sentence ‘I threw the keys to him and he caught them’ , ‘keys’ is the antecedent of ‘them’ . 先行词，前述词（在句子I threw the keys to him and he caught them 中，keys 是them 的先行词） | | |