priors
n. (大修道院)副院长( prior的名词复数 ); (隐修院)会长; (小隐修院)上司; (中世纪佛罗伦萨及其他意大利共和国的)最高执政官
You use prior to indicate that something has already happened, or must happen, before another event takes place.
He claimed he had no prior knowledge of the protest...
他声称自己事先并不知道这次抗议的事。
The Constitution requires the president to seek the prior approval of Congress for military action...
宪法规定总统在采取军事行动之前必须获得国会同意。
A prior claim or duty is more important than other claims or duties and needs to be dealt with first.
The firm I wanted to use had prior commitments.
我想选用的这家公司已有约在先。
A prior is a monk who is in charge of a priory or a monk who is the second most important person in a monastery.
If something happens prior to a particular time or event, it happens before that time or event.
Prior to his Japan trip, he went to New York...
在去日本之前,他去了纽约。
A man seen hanging around the area prior to the shooting could have been involved.
在枪杀案发生之前,有人目睹一位男子在这附近游荡,该男子可能与此案有关。
The highroad into the village of Weydon Priors was again carpeted with dust.
通往威敦?普利奥斯村镇去的大道,又铺上了一层尘埃.
A man with crime priors can not serve in the army.
有前科的人不能参军服役.
The judge looked at his priors and convicted him of drug smuggling.
审判员看了看他的前科,以毒品走私判决他有罪.
But when calculating Bayes factor the random constant derived in case of improper priors being used.
但在计算贝叶斯因子时,要用到不正常的无信息先验,这会产生带有随机性的常数因子.