predates

英 [ˌpriːˈdeɪts]

美 [ˌpriːˈdeɪts]

v.  (在日期上)早于，先于
predate的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• VERB （在日期上）早于，先于
  If you say that one thingpredatedanother, you mean that the first thing happened or existed some time before the second thing.
  1. His troubles predated the recession...
     他的问题在经济萧条前就出现了。
  2. The monument predates the arrival of the druids in Britain.
     这一遗迹在德鲁伊特来到不列颠前就已存在。

双语例句

• Rachel O'Connell, safety officer at Bebo, pointed out that bullying predates the internet and children were simply using new tools to do what they have always done.
  Bebo的安全官雷切尔•奥康内尔（RachelO'Connell）指出，在互联网出现之前，欺凌现象就已经存在了，孩子们只是用新的工具来做他们以前一直在做的事。
• Most military phrases come from the World Wars of the 20th century, and this one predates the Civil War.
  绝大多数的军事用语来自20世纪的两次世界大战，而这一词语比国内战争还早。
• But the tradition of self-promotion predates the camera by millenniums.In440 B.
  不过，自我推销这一传统早在相机出现数千年前就有了。
• The ductile shear zone predates gold mineralization, and the ductile shear action not only promotes the initial mobilization and enriches mineralizing elements such as gold, silver in Precambrian basement rocks, but also provides favourable space for later structural superposition and emplacement of granitic magma.
  认为金矿化形成于韧性剪切带之后，韧性剪切作用不仅促使了前寒武基底地层中金等成矿元素的初始活化和富集，同时也为后期构造叠加、花岗岩体侵位提供了有利的空间。
• Mr Buffett's capacity to admit error predates his popular fame.
  早在声名远播之前，巴菲特就勇于承认错误。
• These can all be dismissed because of lack of evidence or because OK predates the events that supposedly led to creation.
  由于缺乏证据或由于OK一词产生于那些可能产生该词的事情以前，这些流行的说法都可能被否定。
• Writing down losses in asset values, however, is a reasonable and highly desirable accounting practice prevalent around the world, which predates recent regulatory changes.
  但是，在全球范围内，减记资产价值损失是一种合理且十分可取的会计做法，时间上也早于近年来监管方面的改革。
• The concept of revenue sharing paying commission for referred business predates affiliate marketing and the Internet.
  的概念，收入共享付费委员会提到企业早联属网络营销和互联网。
• For these patients, our treatment options effectively go back to the era that predates the advent of antibiotics.
  对于这类患者，我们的治疗选择实际上回到了抗生素出现以前的时期。
• But for some wealth managers, their cinematic inspiration in the battle against inflation predates the Reagan era.
  不过，对某些财富管理机构来说，他们在抵御通胀战斗中的灵感来源于比里根更早的时代。