antecedent

常见例句

That's an antecedent standard. Moral desert.
道德应得，那是一个先行标准。
This may seem like pure success—brilliance, or its antecedent anyway.
这看起来可能就是单纯的成功——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，病灶出现在先前的创伤部位。

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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' So you know people do have a historical antecedent to this.
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