| 单词 | precursor |
| 释义 | precursor (once / 3257 pages) n You've heard the old saying "Pride comes before the fall?" Well, you could just as easily say pride is a precursor to the fall. A precursor is something that happens before something else. You don't have to be a dead languages scholar to guess that this word springs from a Latin source — praecursor, "to run before." A precursor is usually related to what it precedes. It's a catalyst or a harbinger, leading to what follows or providing a clue that it's going to happen. Binging on holiday candy is a precursor to tummy aches and promises to exercise more. Draconian policies in unstable nations are often a precursor to rebellion. WORD FAMILYprecursor: precursors USAGE EXAMPLES“He was the precursor to what’s happening in the West.” New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) Supreme Court issued a ruling marking a precursor to its Florida decision. Reuters(Dec 22, 2016) This year the sport added a putrid precursor, Bowel Week, as schools in three Power 5 conferences smeared us with excrement. Washington Times(Dec 19, 2016) 1n something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone Syn|Hyper forerunner, harbinger, herald, predecessor indicant, indication something that serves to indicate or suggest 2n a person who goes before or announces the coming of another Syn|Hypo|Hyper forerunner predecessor one who precedes you in time (as in holding a position or office) forefatherperson from an earlier time who contributed to the tradition shared by some group individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul a human being 3n a substance from which another substance is formed (especially by a metabolic reaction) Hyper material, stuff the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object |
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