precedent

释义

n.前例; 先例

词态变化

复数 :   precedents ;

实用场景例句

The court's decision may establish a crucial precedent for handling numerous similar cases in the future.

法院的裁决可能为未来处理大量类似案件确立关键的先例。

金山词霸

Hollywood has numerous precedents for contract terminations by mutual agreement.

好莱坞有许多双方同意终止合同的先例。

金山词霸

The decision established a precedent for similar legal disputes.

这个决定为类似的法律纠纷确立了先例。

金山词霸

There is no precedent for a crisis of this magnitude.

这种规模的危机是空前的。

金山词霸

Protests of this scale are without precedent in modern times.

这种规模的抗议活动在现代是没有先例的。

金山词霸

To set a precedent (= to establish a new standard)

树立先例

金山词霸

The idea that the inflation genie can be painlessly rebottled has no historic precedent.

驯服通胀的魔鬼,而又要让实体经济毫发无伤——至少历史上没有过这样的先例.

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The judge's decision sets a precedent for future cases of contempt of court.

法官的裁决为未来的藐视法庭案制定了一个先例.

口语例句

There's a precedent to quote.

有例可援.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

The guiding precedent [ on the Commerce Clause ] is informative but inconclusive.

( 宪法的商业条款 ) 这一导向性的先例令人大开眼界但却带有不确定性.

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Is often nosebleed is leukaemia preclinical? Does leukaemia have cured precedent?

经常流鼻血是白血病的潜伏期 吗 ?白血病有治愈的先例 吗 ?

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If he is allowed to do this, it will be a precedent for others.

如果允许他这样做, 就会为别人开先例.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

The floods and storms, which have no precedent in the recorded history, devastated the country.

史无前例的洪水和暴风雪毁掉了这个国家.

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Loan guarantees to Chrysler would set a dangerous precedent.

向克莱斯勒汽车公司提供贷款保证会树立一个危险的先例.

辞典例句

Principles and rules have petrified with the accumulated weight of precedent.

由于层层先例的累积使原则和章程变得僵化呆板了.

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It is something new, without precedent in world history.

世界历史上还没有这样一个法,这是一个新的事物.

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When the results of the two evaluations are inconsistent , the national economic evaluation takes precedent.

本文对污水处理工程的效益和费用作了简单分析以了解国民经济评价的意义.

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Is there a precedent for what you want me to do?

你要我做的事有前例可援 吗 ?

《现代汉英综合大词典》

This is a departure from precedent.

这是违反前例的.

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The key operation of the common law system is to follow precedent.

普通法系判例法的运作关键,在于对先例的遵循.

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The court have follow the precedent set in the 1972 case.

法院遵循了1972年案中所定下的先例.

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In 1905, Einstein created a miracle without precedent in the history of science.

1905年, 爱因斯坦在科学史上创造了一个无先例的奇迹.

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This is a wonderful achievement without precedent in Chinese history.

这是中国历史上亘古未有的奇绩.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

If this suggestion is accepted, It'should not be considered as a precedent.

如果此建议被接受, 以后不得引以为例.

期刊摘选

Finally, a judge may always simply overrule the clearly applicable precedent.

最后, 法官通常会简单地否决明确适用的前例.

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真题例句

The lack of a precedent in American history.

出自-2010年6月阅读原文

As Apple and several security experts have argued, an order compelling Apple to write software that gives the Fbi access to the iPhone in question would establish an unsettling precedent.

2017年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

If Apple alters the security model of future iPhones so that even its own engineers' "reasonable assistance" will not be able to crack a given device when compelled by the government, a precedent set in this case might lose its lasting force.

2017年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

The order essentially asks Apple to hack its own devices, and once it is in place, the precedent could be used to justify law enforcement efforts to get around encryption technologies in other investigations far removed from national security threats.

2017年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

The legal issues in the case are obscure: whereas the Supreme Court has ruled that states do have some regulatory authority over nuclear power, legal scholars say that Vermont case will offer a precedent-setting test of how far those powers extend.

出自-2012年考研阅读原文

英英释义

Noun

1. an example that is used to justify similar occurrences at a later time

2. (civil law) a law established by following earlier judicial decisions

3. a system of jurisprudence based on judicial precedents rather than statutory laws;

"common law originated in the unwritten laws of England and was later applied in the United States"

4. a subject mentioned earlier (preceding in time)

Adjective

1. preceding in time, order, or significance