Precedent
['presɪd(ə)nt] or ['prɛsɪdənt]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) an example that is used to justify similar occurrences at a later time.
(noun.) a subject mentioned earlier (preceding in time).
(adj.) preceding in time, order, or significance .
校對:伊薇特--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Going before; anterior; preceding; antecedent; as, precedent services.
(n.) Something done or said that may serve as an example to authorize a subsequent act of the same kind; an authoritative example.
(n.) A preceding circumstance or condition; an antecedent; hence, a prognostic; a token; a sign.
(n.) A rough draught of a writing which precedes a finished copy.
(n.) A judicial decision which serves as a rule for future determinations in similar or analogous cases; an authority to be followed in courts of justice; forms of proceeding to be followed in similar cases.
手打:蒙塔古
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Antecedent, PRECEDING.
n. Authoritative example.
科林整理
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Anterior, prior, earlier
ANT:Subsequent, posterior, Inter
SYN:Instance, example, authority, warrant, antecedent, pattern
ANT:Prohibition, diswarrant, disallowance
編輯:凯利
娱乐性解釋/意思：
n. In Law a previous decision rule or practice which in the absence of a definite statute has whatever force and authority a Judge may choose to give it thereby greatly simplifying his task of doing as he pleases. As there are precedents for everything he has only to ignore those that make against his interest and accentuate those in the line of his desire. Invention of the precedent elevates the trial-at-law from the low estate of a fortuitous ordeal to the noble attitude of a dirigible arbitrament.
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例句/造句/用法:
- But Precedent and Precipitate were, under all circumstances, the well-matched pair of battle-horses of this able Circumlocutionist. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- This evidently destroys the precedent reasoning concerning the cause of thought or perception. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- His proposition was against all precedent. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- If neither be back at the end of a year a second trial may be held--the thing has a precedent. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- There would be no Precedents to hammer at, except the plain-sailing Precedent of keeping the light up. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- A most dangerous precedent indeed! 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- But Precedent and Precipitate together frightened all objection out of most people. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- It will be easy to explain the passion of pity, from the precedent reasoning concerning sympathy. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- It is not a convenient precedent at all. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Such changes no doubt were not without precedent in his experience of persons mentally afflicted. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- This clearly appears from the precedent explication of necessity. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- Chancery, which knows no wisdom but in precedent, is very rich in such precedents; and why should one be different from ten thousand? 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Such was the dinner without precedent, given by Pancks at Pentonville; and such was the busy and strange life Pancks led. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- They are unfettered by precedent in the administration of justice. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- There were no precedents, nothing upon which to build or improve. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- While the routineers see machinery and precedents revolving with mankind as puppets, he puts the deliberate, conscious, willing individual at the center of his philosophy. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- There would be no Precedents to hammer at, except the plain-sailing Precedent of keeping the light up. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Is Richard a monster in all this, or would Chancery be found rich in such precedents too if they could be got for citation from the Recording Angel? 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The Imperial Palace and the entourage were equally based on Roman and Persian precedents. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Whether they had ever, at different times, pleaded for and against the same cause, and cited precedents to prove contrary opinions? 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- Suppose that statesmen transferred their reverence from the precedents and mistakes of their ancestors to the human material which they have set out to govern. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Chancery, which knows no wisdom but in precedent, is very rich in such precedents; and why should one be different from ten thousand? 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- What can be taught by rule of thumb is the administration of precedents. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- So that, however I may have occasion to rue my present audacity, I have at least the most respectable precedents in my favour. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
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