Precedent

(noun.) an example that is used to justify similar occurrences at a later time.

(noun.) a subject mentioned earlier (preceding in time).

(adj.) preceding in time, order, or significance .

校对:伊薇特

• But Precedent and Precipitate were, under all circumstances, the well-matched pair of battle-horses of this able Circumlocutionist. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• This evidently destroys the precedent reasoning concerning the cause of thought or perception. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• His proposition was against all precedent. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• If neither be back at the end of a year a second trial may be held--the thing has a precedent. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• There would be no Precedents to hammer at, except the plain-sailing Precedent of keeping the light up. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• A most dangerous precedent indeed! 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• But Precedent and Precipitate together frightened all objection out of most people. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• It will be easy to explain the passion of pity, from the precedent reasoning concerning sympathy. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• It is not a convenient precedent at all. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Such changes no doubt were not without precedent in his experience of persons mentally afflicted. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• This clearly appears from the precedent explication of necessity. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• Chancery, which knows no wisdom but in precedent, is very rich in such precedents; and why should one be different from ten thousand? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Such was the dinner without precedent, given by Pancks at Pentonville; and such was the busy and strange life Pancks led. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• They are unfettered by precedent in the administration of justice. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• There were no precedents, nothing upon which to build or improve. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• While the routineers see machinery and precedents revolving with mankind as puppets, he puts the deliberate, conscious, willing individual at the center of his philosophy. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• There would be no Precedents to hammer at, except the plain-sailing Precedent of keeping the light up. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Is Richard a monster in all this, or would Chancery be found rich in such precedents too if they could be got for citation from the Recording Angel? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The Imperial Palace and the entourage were equally based on Roman and Persian precedents. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Whether they had ever, at different times, pleaded for and against the same cause, and cited precedents to prove contrary opinions? 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• Suppose that statesmen transferred their reverence from the precedents and mistakes of their ancestors to the human material which they have set out to govern. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Chancery, which knows no wisdom but in precedent, is very rich in such precedents; and why should one be different from ten thousand? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• What can be taught by rule of thumb is the administration of precedents. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• So that, however I may have occasion to rue my present audacity, I have at least the most respectable precedents in my favour. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.

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