Precede
[prɪ'siːd] or [prɪ'sid]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) furnish with a preface or introduction; 'She always precedes her lectures with a joke'; 'He prefaced his lecture with a critical remark about the institution'.
(verb.) move ahead (of others) in time or space.
(verb.) be the predecessor of; 'Bill preceded John in the long line of Susan's husbands'.
(verb.) come before; 'Most English adjectives precede the noun they modify'.
手打:利奥波德--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To go before in order of time; to occur first with relation to anything.
(v. t.) To go before in place, rank, or importance.
(v. t.) To cause to be preceded; to preface; to introduce; -- used with by or with before the instrumental object.
伯特伦編輯
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. Go before (in place or in time), go ahead of, take the lead of, be anterior to, take precedence of.
奥尔登錄入
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Lead, introduce, herald, go_before, usher, head
ANT:Succeed, follow
手打:朱迪
解釋/意思:
v.t. to go before in time rank or importance.—v.i. to be before in time or place.
谢丽尔手打
例句/造句/用法:
- The stranger insisted on making Mr. Godfrey precede him; Mr. Godfrey said a few civil words; they bowed, and parted in the street. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- The discovery may long precede its adaptation in physical form, and both the discovery and adaptation may occur together. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Exercise should precede meals, not immediately follow them; the first promotes, the latter, unless moderate, obstructs digestion. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- It may be that several partial leagues may precede any world league. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It is upon the word educational that stress must be laid, and upon the idea that information must precede consultation. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It came, and she had yet heard nothing of her return--nothing even of the going to London, which was to precede her return. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- That gentleman had gradually passed through the various stages which precede the lethargy produced by dinner, and its consequences. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- The horses were post; and neither the carriage, nor the livery of the servant who preceded it, were familiar to them. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- A good skirmish line preceded each of these columns. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- She opened the door to the Inspector, and preceded him into the study. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- But all these occurrences preceded the final day. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- So far as we know the wasp alone preceded the ancient Orientals in the making of paper. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The dice have been loaded by all the successes which have preceded. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- And do you remember the word of caution which preceded the discussion of them? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- The preceding saws were of the straight, reciprocating kind. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- It is not to be inferred, however, from some of the preceding statements that the boy was of an exclusively studious bent of mind. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Her pulse was much stronger, and every symptom more favourable than on the preceding visit. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- In the preceding Section, we learned that many houses heated by hot water are supplied with fresh-air pipes which admit fresh air into separate rooms or into suites of rooms. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- And this may be received as a convincing argument for our preceding doctrine with regard to property and justice. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- In these preceding ten sections we have been dealing with an age of division, of separated nationalities. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- We have already glanced at this story in § 8 of the preceding chapter. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The conception always precedes the understanding; and where the one is obscure, the other is uncertain; where the one fails, the other must fail also. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- Such facility sickened him--but he told himself that it was with the pang which precedes recovery. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Upon these occasions, a lady's character generally precedes her; and Highbury has long known that you are a superior performer. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- I immediately perceive, that they are contiguous in time and place, and that the object we call cause precedes the other we call effect. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- As this last-named operation precedes the crushing, let us first consider it as it was projected and carried on by him. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- This experiment, which is analogous to the one that precedes, was explained by Nicholson, in 1832, in his _Journal de Physique_. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
整理:薇尔玛