previous/foregoing/former/preceding/prior.导航词义：先前的

1. previous:adj. 先前的，以前的.指在当下所提及的事件、时间等之前发生或存在的，通常作定语。

She has a child from a previous marriage.

她前一次婚姻有一个孩子。

He discovered that he had met his new colleague before on three previous occasions.

他发现他以前见过他的新同事3次。

2. foregoing:adj. 前述的.指事物在讲述、文章等中刚刚提到的，常作定语。

the foregoing examples

上述例证

The foregoing conclusion is based on the following data.

上述结论是根据以下数据得出的。

3. former:adj. 以前的，从前的.指曾有过某种职务或地位的，也可指发生或存在于过去的。

He has a great interest in books about the former president.

他对和那位前总统有关的书十分感兴趣。

His income has been reduced to half its former amount due to the economic depression.

由于经济萧条，他的收入已减少到以前的一半。

4. preceding:adj. 在前的，前面的.指在所提时间、地点或部分之前发生或出现的。

The examples in the preceding chapter are used again later.

上一章的例子后面又再次被使用。

Their plan of seeing a movie together on Friday failed because they had a quarrel on the preceding day.

他们周五一起看电影的计划泡汤了，因为他们在前一天吵了一架。

5. prior:adj. 在前的，较早的.较正式用词，多指先于另一事物或某一时间前存在或安排的。

The discussion requires prior knowledge of the subject.

本次讨论要求事先了解该主题的相关知识。

No employee can be recruited without the prior approval of the manager.

事先未征得经理的同意不可以招收任何员工。

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1·As we saw in the preceding chapter, groups can be powerful agents of socialization.

如我们在前一章所见，团组可以是社会化的有力动因。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·She informed us that eighteen members of the staff had left during the preceding year.

她当时告知我们，18位教职员在此前的一年里离开了。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

3·We shall be known better than any preceding generations.

我们将比前几代人更出名。

4·By contrast, they saw in the preceding hundred years from 1650 to1750, when England was still a completely agricultural country.

相比之下，在1650年到1750年之前的几百年里，英国还完全是一个农业国家。

5·Each of the preceding techniques provides the researcher with evidence that the infant can detector discriminate between stimuli.

以上每一种技术都为研究者提供了证据，证明婴儿能够识别不同的刺激。

6·Each of the preceding techniques provides the researcher with evidence that the infant can detect or discriminate between stimuli.

上述的每一种技术都为研究者提供了证据，证明婴儿能够察觉或辨别不同的刺激。

7·He seated himself there, as on the preceding day, surveying from a distance, and clearly making out, the white bonnet, the black dress.

和前一天一样，他在那里坐了下来，从远处望着，清清楚楚地认出了那顶白帽子、那件黑裙子。

8·Writing in the last year of his life, he expressed the opinion that in two or three respects his mind had changed during the preceding twenty or thirty years.

他在生命的最后一年，在所写文章中表达了自己这样的想法，他认为在过去的二三十年里，思想在两三个方面发生了变化。

9·Pay has risen sharply for the highly educated, and those people continue to reap rich rewards into old age because these days the educated elderly are more productive than the preceding generation.

受过高等教育的人的工资大幅上涨，而这些人在步入老年后仍能获得丰厚的回报，因为如今受过教育的老年人比上一代人生产力更高。

10·Each generation surpasses the preceding one.

一代更比一代强。《新英汉大辞典》

前

1·As we saw in the preceding chapter, groups can be powerful agents of socialization.

如我们在前一章所见，团组可以是社会化的有力动因。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·We shall be known better than any preceding generations.

我们将比前几代人更出名。

3·I have been more intentional about going through lessons from Sunday School pamphlets given out the preceding week at dinner.

我一直在通过更多的经验教训，从主日学去了吃晚饭前一周给予小册子故意的。

4·An index entry is created for the concatenation of the two preceding items (tag context plus data element).

为前两项(标记上下文加上数据元素)的并置创建索引项。

5·Selected as one of the most frequently looked up words each year, especially in a campaign season preceding noteworthy elections.

每年最常被查找的字，尤其是在值得注意的选举前的选季。以此入选。

前面的

1·To uniquely identify a system, it might take one or more of the elements in the preceding list to construct the identifier.

要唯一地标识一个系统，可能需要使用前面的列表中的一个或多个元素来构造其标识符。

2·Finally, Intention 5 builds on the preceding intentions and grants the licensee the ability to mix open source software with other software.

最后，意图 5 建立在前面的意图之上，允许被许可方将开放源码软件与其他软件混合起来。

3·You must verify whether the column selected to be sorted is the immediately preceding column to have been sorted and, if it is, in which direction (ascending or descending) it was previously sorted.

您必须检查要排序的选定列是否刚好在已排序的列的前面，如果是这样，还需要确定已经排序的列的排序方向(升序或降序)。

4·References to these tokens in the preceding productions are enclosed in angle brackets.

在前面的结果中，对这些记号的引用是用尖括号括起来的。

5·I highly appreciate the preceding man's precious precise exercise.

我高度欣赏前面那个人可贵的精确演练。

前述的

1·To do this, import the preceding schema to get the necessary redefines.

为此，导入前述的模式以进行必要的重定义。

2·This is very similar to the preceding code that got the name of the button.

这与前述获得按钮名称的代码非常相似。

3·When the user clicks the Acronym Expander button, the run method of the preceding class is invoked.

当用户单击 Acronym Expander 按钮时，将调用前述类中的 run 方法。

4·Fifth the problem that how to build the target export refund system of China built on the preceding analysis is discussed and the matching measures and strategies are put forward.

第五，基于前述分析，从五个方面阐述如何构建我国的目标出口退税机制，提出了配套改革的方法和策略。

5·Fifth, the problem that how to build the target export rebate system of China built on the preceding analysis is discussed and the matching measures and strategies are put forward.

第五，基于前述分析，从五个方面阐述如何构建我国的目标出口退税机制，提出了配套改革的方法和策略。

之前的

1·The build phases (and any preceding build phases for each build phase lifecycle) and goals are invoked in the order specified.

构建阶段(以及每个构建阶段生命周期的任何构建阶段之前阶段)和目标都按指定的顺序被调用。

2·In a circuit diagram, on the other hand, a resistor might be oriented horizontally or vertically, and it might appear above, below, or next to the preceding circuit element.

另一方面，在一张电路图表里，一个电阻器可能是水平或者垂直朝向的，并可能在之前电路元素的上面、下面或者旁边。

3·The preceding tutorials have explored the IT management value chain from the managed elements all the way up to the management applications.

本系列之前的教程已经对从托管元素一直到管理应用程序的IT管理价值链进行了讨论。

4·If the file begins with a delimiter, the node treats the (zero length) file contents preceding that delimiter as a record and propagates an empty record to the flow.

如果文件以分隔符开始，则节点将该分隔符之前的(零长度)文件内容视为一个记录，并向流传播一个空记录。

5·In fact the crisis has triggered an explosion of research in the areas I mentioned but this new research USES the same methodology and assumptions as the preceding one.

事实上，这场危机引发了我所提到的这些领域的研究，但这次新的研究同样使用与之前相同的方法和假设。

在先的

1·In the lengthy and preceding considerations, I don't know if I've made it sufficiently clear how lacerating this last investigation has been.

在漫长而在先的考量，我并不知道我是否充分地表达清楚，这个最后的探讨始终是裂痕重重。

2·When the front of the shoe interferes with the preceding seat, the amount of seat track travel needed to clear the interference is subtracted.

当鞋子的前面干涉在先的位子时，相当数量位子必要的轨道旅行清除干涉被减去。