precedents

英 [ˈprɛsɪdənts]

美 [ˈprɛsədənts]

n.  可援用参考的具体例子; 实例; 范例; 先前出现的事例; 前例; 先例; 传统; 常例; 常规
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柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 前例；先例
  If there is aprecedent foran action or event, it has happened before, and this can be regarded as an argument for doing it again.
  1. The trial could set an important precedent for dealing with large numbers of similar cases...
     这次审判能为处理大量类似案例开创重要的先例。
  2. There are plenty of precedents in Hollywood for letting people out of contracts.
     在好莱坞，允许影视人员解除合同的先例有很多。

双语例句

• There are different legislations, legal precedents, and theories in German, Japan and China as to whether fraud of paying property or estate for illegal reasons constitutes crime of fraud or not.
  诈欺基于不法原因给付的财物或者财产性利益的场合下是否成立诈骗罪，德国、日本和我国的立法、判例和学说都有所不同。
• There is no lack of precedents.
  不乏先例。
• Such realism does have precedents.
  这种现实主义做法确实有先例可循。
• There are precedents for reaching an international agreement on sharing costs and benefits-notably, the Marshall Plan.
  在成本和利益共享方面达成国际性的协议，有一些先例可循特别是《马歇尔计划》（marshallplan）。
• No precedents were available to show us how a modern day currency board system should be structured.
  现代货币发行局制度的结构应该是怎样的一个课题，是没有先例可援的。
• There are, however, encouraging precedents from the rest of Asia.
  然而亚洲其他地方有着鼓舞人心的先例。
• She wanted to know if Westerners saw it that way and if there were any precedents.
  她想知道西方人是不是也这么看，有没有这样的先例。
• The founders of the USA left important precedents.
  美国的建立者留下了很多重要的先例（复习：precedent，取决于pre=before）。
• Then there are the historical precedents of a strong dollar breaking things elsewhere.
  而且历史上有强势美元在其他地区造成破坏的先例。
• There have been partial precedents in American history but nothing quite like this.
  部分情况在美国历史上曾有过先例，但完全类似的情况还从来没出现过。