英语释义

• prey on or hunt for;

  "These mammals predate certain eggs"

• be earlier in time; go back further;

  "Stone tools precede bronze tools"

• come before;

  "Most English adjectives precede the noun they modify"

• establish something as being earlier relative to something else

英汉例句

• much of the country’s resilience stems from policies—such as bank regulation and sound public finances—which predate mr harper.

  该国能够重振经济大多数源自政策——比如银行管制和明智的政府财政——这是哈珀之前的政府就实施了的。

• but, being over 11,000 years old, they predate the domestication of cereals in the middle east by a millennium.

  但几乎都有1.1万年的历史了，这比人类在中东地区开始耕种谷物要早1千年的时间。

• the specimens predate the first truly multicellular organism, called grypania spiralis, which appeared in the fossil record 1.4 billion years ago.

  与在化石记录14亿年前出现的称为grypaniaspiralis的第一种真正的多细胞生物相比，这些标本还要更早。

• having bounced from hawaii to indonesia and back before he was 10, he apparently longed for the sense of being anchored that comes with roots and memories that predate your own life.

  从夏威夷跳到印度尼西亚，又在10岁前跳了回来，他显然在渴望一种来自出生前就存在的根源与记忆的归属感。

• technologies that predate mainstream web services offer a dual nature in the way they fit into frameworks.

  领先于主流web服务的技术在适应框架的方式上提供了双重特性。

• we predate the web by about six or seven years.

  我们在六七年前就已做好周密打算。

• it definitely didn’t come to english through french since the old english citations predate the norman conquest.

  但是可以肯定的是它绝非来源于法语，因为在古英语尚在是有时，诺曼征服的时代还未到来呢。

• ski resorts (as the name suggests) predate snowboarding by decades.

  滑雪场（恰如其名所提示的：除了跌到之外，只能滑雪）要比滑雪单板提早了几十年。

• a few finds: sharks are old—they predate dinosaurs by about two hundred million years.

  说些新发现吧：鲨鱼族非常古老——早在恐龙时代大约2亿年前，它们就已经存在了。

• most of its better buildings predate his rule.

  城内比较好的建筑大多在他统治之前兴建。

• it says lice are old, predate the cretaceous-paleogene boundary, and must have been living on something.

  它说明了虱子的历史非常久，在白垩纪-早第三纪过渡期之前，而且也肯定是寄生在某种生物上的。

• these worries predate the ructions in the arab world.

  这些担忧在阿拉伯世界发生动乱之前就出现了。

• [font=times new roman][color=#000000]popular games in china typically feature elves, dwarves or characters that predate the past century of political turmoil.

  [font=timesnewroman]中国流行的游戏爱用精灵、矮人等角色，要不就是几个世纪前乱世中的人物。

• and it will tend to care more about immediate needs than about whether assets were acquired during the course of the marriage, or predate it, or are the result of an inheritance.

  婚前协议往往更多关心直接需要的，而不是关心在婚姻期间或在婚前财产是否能获得或是否能继承遗产。

• it is worth noting that the survey of prices predate some of the measures designed to cool the market.

  值得注意的是，先前关于这些措施所调查到的价格数据来看，有些措施对房地产市场具有降温作用。

• all the numbers come from annual disclosure forms, so they predate the worst of the economic crisis.

  所有这些数字都来自于年度披露报表，因此反映的是经济危机最严重阶段来临之前的情况。

• although we don't know the exact origins, we are sure they predate history. we can find them in literature, poems, songs and architecture.

  尽管我们不知道龙确切的由来，但我们确信那是很早以前的历史了。在文献、诗词、歌曲和建筑中都可以发现有关信息。

• jungers also noted that the first homo fossils predate a. sediba by 500, 000 years, while homo ergaster had reached western asia just 200, 000 years after a. sediba’s known date.

  荣格斯同时还指出第一个人属的化石比sediba早50万年，而人属匠人（homoergaster；也称东非直立人）仅在sediba已知年代的20万年后就已经抵达了西亚。

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antedate比实际提前的日期

相反词

follow跟随；追随

postdate事后日期；推迟日期

succeed继承；接替；继……之后