He gestured to Alice to precede them from the room.

他示意艾丽斯从房间里出来走在他们前面。

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To escape the quote, we use a backward slash to precede it.

为了转换该引用，我们在它之前使用了一个反斜杠。

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Either way, the point is that in JSR Groovy, I have to precede the variable with something.

不论哪种方法，重要的一点是：在JSR Groovy中，必须在变量前加上某些东西。

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"For instance,using the word 'preclude' to mean 'precede.' Yeah,it sounds like 'precede,' but it means 'prevent.' And yet 'preclude' is not a particularly erudite term.

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EU, though, unlike Bulgaria, neither country has an association agreement with it that is supposed to precede eventual membership.

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In only one case was bowel disease known to precede the onset of behavioural symptoms, while in another they appeared simultaneously.

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Restoring them and faith in government itself will have to precede an election.

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