precedent
英 ['presɪd(ə)nt]
美['prɛsɪdənt]
- n. 先例；前例
- adj. 在前的；在先的
考试真题
- 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