antecedent是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. /n. 先行的; 祖先，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He found her in an unusual mood: her eyes as she looked up to him were suspicious and perplexed as with some antecedent thought.
-- To curse his miserable lot was at first his impulse, but even that lowest stage of rebellion needed an activity whose absence was necessarily antecedent to the existence of the morbid misery which wrung him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Begin it early, and do it well; and there is no antecedent to it, in any origin or station, that will tell against us with the Almighty, or with ourselves.'
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