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

• 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。
• That suggests the neurological changes which gave rise to humanity may have predated the brain's expansion& an event that had, hitherto, been regarded as crucial to the emergence of humans.
  这表明，人类产生所依赖的大脑神经上的变化，有可能在大脑变大之前就已经出现&这也是迄今为止被认为是人类诞生的关键因素。
• 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。
• His troubles predated the recession
  他的问题在经济萧条前就出现了。
• Against this, Mr Summers suggests that at least some of the conditions predated the crisis and are likely to be longer lasting.
  对此表示反对的萨默斯则认为，至少部分条件在危机前就出现了，而且很可能将持续更长时间。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。