1. | [c] 前事；前情a thing or an event that exists or comes before another, and may have influenced it |
2. | [pl] 祖先；先人the people in sb's family who lived a long time ago |
3. | [c] 先行词；先行语a word or phrase to which the following word, especially a pronoun, refers |
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。 |
