precedent是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 先例，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And so they parted; each persuaded that the other had less life in him than himself; and both greatly consoled and comforted by the little fiction they had agreed upon, respecting Becky Morgan, whose decease was no longer a precedent of uncomfortable application, and would be no business of theirs for half a score of years to come.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Yes, I was 芒聙娄' 'Well, then it is a precedent for you for the future though don't suppose I should venture to instruct you after the ar-ticles you publish about crime!No, I simply make bold to state it by way of fact, if I took this man or that for a criminal, why, I ask, should I worry him prematurely, even though I had evidence against him?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is not aconvenient precedent at all.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Weston (laughing affectedly) I must pro-test against that. A most dangerous precedent indeed! I beg you will not let your neighbours follow your example. Upon my word, if this is what I am to expect, we married women must begin to exert ourselves! Oh!Mr.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Boldwood seized it and opened it, expecting another anonymous one so greatly are people's ideas of probability a mere sense that precedent will repeat itself.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was no want of precedent for his return; it was accounted for to the father in the usual way; and the collegians, with a better comprehension of the pious fraud than Tip, supported it loyally.
-- And there, with his noble friend and relative Lord Decimus, was William Barnacle, who had made the ever-famous coalition with Tudor Stiltstalking, and who always kept ready his own particular recipe for How not to do it; sometimes tapping the Speaker, and drawing it fresh out of him, with a 'First, I will beg you, sir, to inform the House what Precedent we have for the course into which the honourable gentleman would precipitate us;' sometimes asking the honourable gentleman to favour him with his own version of the Precedent; sometimes telling the honourable gentleman that he (William Barnacle) would search for a Precedent; and oftentimes crushing the honourable gentleman flat on the spot by telling him there was no Precedent.
-- But Precedent and Precipitate were, under all circumstances, the well-matched pair of battle-horses of this able Circumlocutionist.
-- No matter that it was utterly irreconcilable with the nature of things and course of events that the wretched honourable gentleman could possibly produce a Precedent for this William Barnacle would nevertheless thank the honourable gentleman for that ironical cheer, and would close with him upon that issue, and would tell him to his teeth that there Was NO Precedent for this.
-- But Precedent and Precipitate together frightened all objection out of most people.
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