英语词汇“precursor”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

pre·cur·sor

(prĭ-kûrsər, prēkûr′sər)

1. One that precedes and indicates, suggests, or announces someone or something to come: Colonial opposition to unfair taxation by the British was a precursor of the Revolution.

2. One that precedes another; a forerunner or predecessor: The new principal's precursor was an eminent educator.

3. A biochemical substance, such as an intermediate compound in a chain of enzymatic reactions, from which a more stable or definitive product is formed: a precursor of insulin.

[Middle English precursoure, from Old French precurseur, from Latin praecursor, from praecursus, past participle of praecurrere, to run before : prae-, pre- + currere, to run; see kers- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.]

单词	precursor
释义	pre·cur·sor (prĭ-kûrsər, prēkûr′sər) n. 1. One that precedes and indicates, suggests, or announces someone or something to come: Colonial opposition to unfair taxation by the British was a precursor of the Revolution. 2. One that precedes another; a forerunner or predecessor: The new principal's precursor was an eminent educator. 3. A biochemical substance, such as an intermediate compound in a chain of enzymatic reactions, from which a more stable or definitive product is formed: a precursor of insulin. [Middle English precursoure, from Old French precurseur, from Latin praecursor, from praecursus, past participle of praecurrere, to run before : prae-, pre- + currere, to run; see kers- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.]
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