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

• Soon after his arrival, he had to make a public apology for a personal data leak affecting KT customers, as well as a financial scam that predated him involving one of its subsidiaries.
  在他上任后不久，他不得不为一起影响韩国电信客户的个人数据泄露事件以及一桩财务欺诈案（发生在他任职之前，涉及该集团一家子公司）公开致歉。
• Partly this showed the age of MathML, since all of the initial design predated the final version of the XML standard.
  这在一定程度上反映了MathML的年头，因为所有最初的设计都早于最终版的XML标准。
• The fruiting season of low-chilling peach could be predated by 2~ 3 months? That increased its benefit.
  短低温桃的成熟期可提早2～3个月，提高桃的经济效益。
• His troubles predated the recession
  他的问题在经济萧条前就出现了。
• The Soviet Union's ethnic murders predated Nazi Germany's.
  苏联的种族屠杀要早于纳粹德国。
• 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。
• 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。
• The proportion of acorns predated by animals including vertebrates and invertebrates amounts up to 78.3%, indicating that acorn predation by animals is a limiting factor affecting acorn survival before seed dispersal.
  脊椎动物和无脊椎动物合计捕食占78.3%。这说明动物对坚果的捕食是影响坚果存活的主要因子。
• 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。