Antecedent

(noun.) the referent of an anaphor; a phrase or clause that is referred to by an anaphoric pronoun.

(noun.) a preceding occurrence or cause or event.

(noun.) anything that precedes something similar in time; 'phrenology was an antecedent of modern neuroscience'.

(adj.) preceding in time or order .

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• A mistake, therefore, of right may become a species of immorality; but it is only a secondary one, and is founded on some other, antecedent to it. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• Some virtuous motive, therefore, must be antecedent to that regard. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• This value was antecedent to, and independent of their being employed as coin, and was the quality which fitted them for that employment. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• So that the impressions of reflexion are only antecedent to their correspondent ideas; but posterior to those of sensation, and derived from them. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• His instinct was to regard her as a conspirator against rather than as an antecedent obstacle to Thomasin's happiness. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• But is property, or right, or obligation, intelligible, without an antecedent morality? 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• But this supposes, that there is some antecedent rule of duty and morals. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• Perceiving himself to be the antecedent, Bradley looked from the watchman to the man. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• If nature has given us no such sentiment, there is not, naturally, nor antecedent to human conventions, any such thing as property. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• What had she to do with parents and antecedents? 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Have no antecedents, no established character, no cultivation, no ideas, no manners; have Shares. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Knowing me thoroughly now--all my antecedents, all my responsibilities--having long known my faults, can you and I still be friends? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• I would much rather not have told her anything of my antecedents, but no man could look into the depth of those eyes and refuse her slightest behest. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• Those are the antecedents, and the culmination. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Let us now inspect the individual democrat; and first, as in the case of the State, we will trace his antecedents. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• It was the first time it had ever been so complimented, and Madame Defarge knew enough of its antecedents to know better. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Respecting de Hamal, I fear she is under an illusion; the man's character is known to me, all his antecedents, all his scrapes. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.

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