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predated

英 [ˌpriːˈdeɪtɪd]

美 [ˌpriːˈdeɪtɪd]

v.  (在日期上)早于,先于
predate的过去分词和过去式

过去分词:predated 过去式:predated 

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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

  • Part of the explanation lies in the timing of the latter studies, which predated the present economic crisis.
    部分原因在于后者的研究时机先于当前的经济危机。
  • Nokia had previously said it would use Maemo on a small number of phones, but this predated news of the MeeGo OS.
    诺基亚过去虽然也曾经有表示过会用Maemo平台开发多款手机,但这些言论全部都是在他们与Intel定下有关MeeGo系统的海誓山盟之前说出来的。
  • The Indus civilization was predated by the first farming cultures in South asia, which emerged in the hills of what is now called balochistan, to the west of the Indus valley.
    印度河流域文明居先于南印度的首个农业文明,在现在称为卑路支的山丘上浮现,直到印度河流域的西端。
  • We know that some of man's close ancestors predated the pleistocene.
    我们知道,有些人类近缘祖先出现于更新世之前。
  • His troubles predated the recession
    他的问题在经济萧条前就出现了。
  • To complicate matters, insiders say, Mr Winters whose career at JPMorgan predated Mr Dimon's arrival had an independent streak, operated from a powerful platform in London and held strong views on how to run the bank.
    令事情更复杂的是,知情人士表示,在戴蒙到来之前就在摩根大通供职的温特斯个性独立,从伦敦的一个强大平台运作,并对如何经营该行看法鲜明。
  • However, as Mr Bruner and Mr Carr demonstrate in their well-timed book, history shows that contagion has predated computers.
    然而,就象布鲁纳和卡尔在他们很合时宜的著作中所言,历史表明,早在有电脑之前就有危机传播现象了。
  • Drum towers and half-moons held up better against catapults, since thrown stones were more apt to deflect off a curved wall, but Raventree predated that particular bit of builder's wisdom.
    圆形突出于外墙的鼓楼和半月形突出于城墙的塔楼更有利于防御投石机的攻击,因为弧形能更有效的反射飞石,但是显然鸦树城比建筑师积累起这条特殊智慧的年代更为久远。
  • There is the Xia which predated them but by all historical records, the earliest that one started was2000 BC.
    但是根据所有的历史记录,夏朝的历史要更早,其可追溯到公元前2000年。
  • Due to some reasons, the physiology characteristics of two sex subpopulations of some populations are different. These characteristics mainly are death rate, birth rate, the ability of competing for food and of avoiding being predated, etc.
    在一些种群中,由于各种各样的原因,雌雄两性的生理特征具有明显的不同,这些特征主要表现为出生率、死亡率,竞争食物的能力以及逃避被捕食(或危险)的能力等。