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

• Null= The database monitor file predates this enhancement
  null=数据库监视器文件早于这个增强
• That almost certainly predates human civilisation.
  那几乎是在人类文明之前了。
• The variorum anthology value mainly manifests in two aspects: one, in anthology variorum predates the Song Dynasty block-printed edition anthology note, has the important value of the version.
  《文选集注》的价值主要体现在两个方面：一、《文选集注》在时间上早于宋刻本《文选》注，具有重要的版本价值。
• These can all be dismissed because of lack of evidence or because OK predates the events that supposedly led to creation.
  由于缺乏证据或由于OK一词产生于那些可能产生该词的事情以前，这些流行的说法都可能被否定。
• Most military phrases come from the World Wars of the 20th century, and this one predates the Civil War.
  绝大多数的军事用语来自20世纪的两次世界大战，而这一词语比国内战争还早。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• One explanation is that people might buy a cheap ticket and then sneak into a more expensive screening; but uniform pricing predates the multiplexes.
  一个解释是，人们可能会先买便宜票，然后悄悄溜进票价更高的放映厅；但统一定价出现的时间早于多放映厅影院。
• 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。