exist beforehand or prior to a certain point in time;
"Did this condition pre-exist?"
preexist 例句
英汉例句
But the thought is always prior to the fact; all the facts of history preexist in the mind as laws.
但思想始终先于事实而存在,所有的历史事实都以法则的方式预先存在于心灵中。
Consequently, reductionism tends to ignore the kinds of interactions that can trigger the emergence of order, patterns, or properties that do not preexist in the underlying physical substram.
所以,简化论倾向于忽略估计原先便在更回层物质存在的触发秩序、样式之类的相互作用。
Main parts of aesthetics as beauty and loftiness, ugliness and absurdness don't preexist alone but are formed at the same time with aesthetic activities.