In 'He grabbed the ball and threw it in the air', 'ball' is the antecedent of 'it'.

在He grabbed the ball and threw it in the air一句中，ball是it的先行词。

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You have sufficient reason for affirming the antecedent.

你有充分的理由肯定先例。

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Upon contracting government projects, the antecedent money for bidding may be reduced by up to 50%.

承揽政府工程时，押标金、得降低百分之五十以下。

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Once we get up there, that's sort of the end of the antecedent phrase and we have a chord change.

前分句在这个高音部分结束，那是前分钟的结尾和弦发生转变。

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It sort of opens things up, and we refer to this as the antecedent phrase.

可以说是开启一切,我们可以把它当做先行乐句

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But when you look at it in a comparative light in its legal context, we see that it's a polemic against the class distinctions that were being drawn in antecedent and contemporary legal systems, such as the Code of Hammurabi.

但当你在法律背景下以一种比较的观点看待它时，会发现它驳倒了存在于先前的和同时代的,法律体系中的阶级差异,例如，汉穆拉比法典。

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The necessary antecedent to those powerful rules was, naturally, a congressional investigation: the Pecora Commission.

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Nowhere does the IOSCO report even begin to address the fundamental antecedent issues: (a) Is Shariah-Compliant Finance intimately and inextricably tied to the theo-political-legal system of Shariah? (b) If so, is Shariah at war with our Western legal, political and financial institutions?

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The map, at least, has no historic, real-world antecedent the constellations on the table's surface are entirely her own.

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