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precede [英] [ˌpriˈsi:d]  [美] [prɪˈsid] 

vt. & vi.

1. 在…之前发生（或出现）；先于2. 走在…前面
preceding [英] [priˈsi:diŋ]  [美] [prɪˈsidɪŋ]   adj.1. (时间或地点上)在先的, 在前的, 前面的例子:As the preceding diagram shows, the Spring IoC container consumes a form of configuration metadata; this configuration metadata represents how you as an application developer tell the Spring container to instantiate, configure, and assemble the objects in your application.