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。
• One should note, however, that toilet goods predated the decision in Overton park, which ushered in the concept of judicial review on the record of an informal rulemaking proceeding.
  可是我们必须注意到，“化妆用品”案发生于“奥佛顿公园”案之前，而后一个案件的判决使我们进入对于非正式规则制定程序的记录的司法复审概念的新纪元。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• It predated the 1960s and is still here.
  从上世纪60年代一直延续至今。