precedes

英 [prɪˈsiːdz]

美 [prɪˈsiːdz]

v.  在…之前发生(或出现); 先于; 走在…前面
precede的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 发生在…之前；先于
  If one event or period of timeprecedesanother, it happens before it.
  1. Intensive negotiations between the main parties preceded the vote...
     主要政党在选举前进行了集中的谈判。
  2. The earthquake was preceded by a loud roar and lasted 20 seconds...
     地震前有一阵巨大的轰隆声，持续了20秒钟。
  3. Industrial orders had already fallen in the preceding months.
     工业订单在前几个月就已减少。
• VERB （顺序、位置）先于，在…前面
  If youprecedesomeone somewhere, you go in front of them.
  1. He gestured to Alice to precede them from the room...
     他给艾丽斯做手势，让她在他们前面离开房间。
  2. They were preceded by mounted cowboys.
     他们前面是骑马的牛仔们。
• VERB （句、段、章节）在…之前
  A sentence, paragraph, or chapter thatprecedesanother one comes just before it.
  1. Look at the information that precedes the paragraph in question...
     查看正在讨论的这段文字前面的信息。
  2. Repeat the exercises described in the preceding section.
     把前一节要求的练习重做一遍。

双语例句

• A transmission control character that precedes a text and may be used to terminate the message heading.
  一种传输控制字符，位于正文之前，可用来终止报文标题〔报头〕。
• Life is a predicament that precedes death.
  人生是个困境，在死亡之前。
• Nature precedes art and human artifice or human making.
  自然先于艺术，人的技巧和人的形成。
• Karyokinesis during cell division, the process of nuclear division that precedes cytoplasmic division.
  有丝分裂：细胞分裂过程中，细胞核先于胞质分裂。
• But there is no logical sense in which age precedes telephone number.
  但是，将年龄放在电话号码前并没有什么逻辑含义。
• Your service record precedes you, phoebus.
  你的服役记录我已经看过了，菲比斯。
• His reputation for numerical inflation, repeat announcements and double counting precedes him.
  布朗素有夸大数字、重复声明和重复计算的名声。
• Scientists have detected a consistent pattern in the sun's magnetic behavior that precedes solar flares.
  科学家们探测到，太阳耀斑发生之前磁性行为有着一贯的模式。
• To say that something is inevitable is to assert that it will occur no matter what precedes it.
  说某个事件是必然的就是断定，无论前因是什么，那个事件都会出现。
• We live in the Universe that follows the principle that thought precedes matter.
  我相信我们生活在一个思想先于物质的世界。