prior
a. 更重要的, 较早的, 在先的 n. 小隐修院院长, 大隐修院副院长
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教材释义与例句
优先的；在先的，在前的
在前，居先
释义与例句
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A prior probability distribution, that is, one determined without knowledge of the occurrence of other events that bear on it, before additional data is collected.
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A prior probability distribution, that is, one determined without knowledge of the occurrence of other events that bear on it, before additional data is collected.
In the rationalsphere: a belief supported by previous evidence or experience that one can use to make inferences about the future.
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A previous arrest or criminal conviction on someone's criminal record.
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A high-ranking member of a religious house or religious order.
In an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy; a prior claustral.
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A high-ranking member of a religious house or religious order.
The head of a priory (“a monastery which is usually a branch of an abbey”), or some other minor or smaller monastery; a prior conventual.
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A high-ranking member of a religious house or religious order.
The head friar of a house of friars.
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A high-ranking member of a religious house or religious order.
The head of the Arrouaisian, Augustinian, and formerly Premonstratensian religious orders.
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A high-ranking member of a religious house or religious order.
An honorary position held by a priest in some cathedrals.
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A chief magistrate of the Republic of Florence (1115–1569) in what is now Italy.
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The elected head of a guild of craftsmen or merchants in some countries in Europe and South America.
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A person who is the earliest or most prominent in a field; the chief.
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The head of a company.
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Coming before in order or time; earlier, former, previous.
事前
预先
His prior residence was smaller than his current one.
I had no prior knowledge you were coming.
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More important or significant.
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Chiefly in prior probability: of the probability of an event: determined without knowledge of the occurrence of other events that bear on it, before additional data is collected.
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Chiefly followed by to: in advance, before, previously.
The doctor had known three months prior.
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The adjective is a learned borrowing from Latin prior (“earlier, former, previous, prior; in front; (figurative) better, superior”), from Proto-Italic *priōs (“earlier, previous”, literally “more before”), ultimately from *pri (“before”) (from Proto-Indo-European *pró (“leading to, toward”) and its etymon *per- (“before, in front; first”)) + *-jōs (suffix forming comparative adjectives). Doublet of before, fore, and former. The adverb and noun are derived from the adjective.
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