For a match XPath expression, use the XPath axis preceding to choose the first one.

对于match XPath表达式，使用xpath轴preceding来选择第一个元素。

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Pay has risen sharply for the highly educated, and those people continue to reap rich rewards into old age because these days the educated elderly are more productive than the preceding generation.

受过高等教育的人的工资大幅上涨，而这些人在步入老年后仍能获得丰厚的回报，因为如今受过教育的老年人比上一代人生产力更高。

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To uniquely identify a system, it might take one or more of the elements in the preceding list to construct the identifier.

要唯一地标识一个系统，可能需要使用前面的列表中的一个或多个元素来构造其标识符。

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So the exodus is a paradigm for salvation, but it would be a mistake, I think, to view the Exodus as the climax of the preceding narrative.

出埃及是救赎的范本，但我认为，这也许是个错误，把《出埃及记》当做前面叙述的高潮。

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We can also see in this phrase "in the Beginning" - we can see it applying to the end of the preceding clause, "That Shepherd who first taught the chosen Seed / in the Beginning."

太初“一词“,还修饰了后面跟着的从句，“那个牧羊人，最初向您的选民宣讲“

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So, if language seems exhausted because it's always preceding you, everything has always already been said, there's no new plot to be had, the world is full of stock phrases, how do you use them to embody an experience that seems fresh to you?

所以，如果因语言，在你之前就存在，而它就显得枯竭，如果一切都已经被说过，如果已没有新的情节可供创造，如果世界一直充满陈腔旧调，你如何能够用它们,呈现出一个崭新的体验？

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Regulators could instruct lenders that the combined maximum loan amount should not exceed 85% of the moving-average value of a property, offered as collateral, over the preceding four to six years.

ECONOMIST: Letters

Economic growth in the United States has slowed in recent quarters, reflecting in part the economy's transition from the rapid rate of expansion experienced over the preceding years to a more sustainable pace of growth.

NPR: Bernanke: U.S. Growth 'Moderate' as Inflation Rises

If there is no bailout, no injection of money by the government or the Fed, the ones that will get hurt will largely only be the ones who used the easy credit available during the immediately preceding boom to make poor investments.

FORBES: Fighting the Last Monetary War