It doesn't, in other words, derive from an antecedent single cause as an effect.

换句话说，它不是，作为结果来自单一的先行的原因。

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Once we get up there, that's sort of the end of the antecedent phrase and we have a chord change.

前分句在这个高音部分结束，那是前分钟的结尾和弦发生转变。

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But when you look at it in a comparative light in its legal context, we see that it's a polemic against the class distinctions that were being drawn in antecedent and contemporary legal systems, such as the Code of Hammurabi.

但当你在法律背景下以一种比较的观点看待它时，会发现它驳倒了存在于先前的和同时代的,法律体系中的阶级差异,例如，汉穆拉比法典。

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It sort of opens things up, and we refer to this as the antecedent phrase.

可以说是开启一切,我们可以把它当做先行乐句

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So it has a kind of antecedent-consequent phrase structure with the chord.

这里像是一个前后分句的结构，配上和弦。

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