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

• But mistrust of business long predates the financial crisis.
  但是，人们对企业的不信任感早在此次金融危机之前就存在了。
• 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。
• 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。
• As with the Easter Bunny and the holiday itself, the Easter Egg predates the Christian holiday of Easter.
  与复活兔和复活节一样，复活蛋预示着圣诞节的即将到来。
• 000 Leagues Under the Sea. Jules Verne. Captain Nemo's exploration of the oceans and battle for their control. Verne's Nautilus predates real submarines.
  尼摩船长在大洋中的历险和为了他们的控制权而发生的战斗。凡尔纳的鹦鹉螺号早于真正的潜水艇。
• Gecko, which originated at Netscape and predates KHTML, is often criticized for its large and infamously complex code base.
  Gecko源自Netscape，并早于KHTML，Gecko因庞大与复杂的代码基础而频遭诟病。
• Uncle Sam predates Flagg's poster by over a century and is the product of a different war.
  山姆大叔出现的时间要比弗兰格的广告早一个世纪，它是另一场战争的产品。
• According to researches on mechanism of predating nematodes, Arthrobotrys mainly generates predacious organ by alive nematodes and predates alive quarries.
  基础科研主要集中在节丛孢捕虫机理的研究上，结果显示，节丛孢主要在活线虫的诱导下产生捕虫器官，捕捉活线虫；
• But legend has it that the name derives from a real man, and the origin is much akin to that of Kilroy. Uncle Sam predates Flagg's poster by over a century and is the product of a different war.
  但有传说是这样的：山姆大叔确有其人，其来源与Kilroy（奈尔洛艾）和来源相似。山姆大叔出现的时间要比弗兰格的广告早一个世纪，它是另一场战争的产品。
• The term "thread pool" predates the Java platform, and is probably an artifact from a less object-oriented approach.
  术语“线程池”先于Java平台出现，因此它可能是较少面向对象方法的产物。