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precedent

/'presidәnt/

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📖 中文释义

  1. n. 先例, 前例
  2. a. 在先的, 在前的

🔗 释义中的汉语词

🧩 词形变化

复数 precedents

💬 双语例句

  1. It's totally without precedent for the suspect's attorney to be the true culprit.

    这前所未闻, 犯罪嫌疑人的律师竟然是真正的罪魁祸首。

  2. He set a precedent.

    他开了先河。

  3. But scientists should surely be precautionary about experiments that generate conditions without precedent in the natural world.

    但系科学家喺做研究嘅时候 必须要小心整咗啲 宇宙从来冇发生过嘅嘢

🔗 常用搭配

historical precedentprecedent setterrible precedentbinding international precedentcommon law precedentdecades setting precedentdreadful protectionist precedentill considered precedent
📘 English Definition（英文释义）
  1. n. an example that is used to justify similar occurrences at a later time
  2. n. a subject mentioned earlier (preceding in time)
  3. s. preceding in time, order, or significance
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