Precursor
[prɪ'kɜːsə] or [pri'kɝsɚ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a person who goes before or announces the coming of another.
(noun.) a substance from which another substance is formed (especially by a metabolic reaction).
校對:朱莉娅--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) One who, or that which, precedes an event, and indicates its approach; a forerunner; a harbinger.
錄入:凯文
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Forerunner, predecessor.[2]. Messenger, harbinger, herald.
埃米莉錄入
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Forerunner, harbinger, herald, pioneer, advance-guard, cause
ANT:Follower, consequent, result, effect, event
校對:沃尔多
例句/造句/用法:
- Egyptian Crooked Stick, Precursor of Modern Plough. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Again I saw that grim face look over the cliff, and I knew that it was the precursor of another stone. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- He will find it as sure a precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- A difficult child was Frederick II for Mother Church, and he was only the precursor of many such difficult children. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Rarity, as geology tells us, is the precursor to extinction. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- This may be considered as the precursor of the five-needle telegraph, first patented by Professor Wheatstone in 1837. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- Watt was the proper precursor of the nineteenth century inventions, as in him were combined the power and attainments of a great scientist and the genius of a great mechanic. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- He was the precursor of that large and various school of collectivist thinkers in the nineteenth century who are lumped together as Socialists. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The organization of this great empire seems to have been on a much higher level of efficiency than any of its precursors. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Occam, Roger Bacon, these are the early precursors of a great movement in Europe away from Realism towards reality. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The incense sticks of the Chinese, the combustion of which proceeded so slowly and regularly as to render them available for time measures, were the precursors of the graduated candles. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
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