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

• 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 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 assessment found that some of these gaps predated the conflict, but like many people, health workers also fled the hostilities and some have not yet been able to return to work.
  评估查明，其中一些差距早在冲突之前就存在，但是如同许多民众一样，卫生工作者也逃离敌对行动并且一些人尚未能返回工作。
• 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。
• It predated the 1960s and is still here.
  从上世纪60年代一直延续至今。
• The Soviet Union's ethnic murders predated Nazi Germany's.
  苏联的种族屠杀要早于纳粹德国。
• 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。
• 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。
• Due to some reasons, the physiology characteristics of two sex subpopulations of some populations are different. These characteristics mainly are death rate, birth rate, the ability of competing for food and of avoiding being predated, etc.
  在一些种群中，由于各种各样的原因，雌雄两性的生理特征具有明显的不同，这些特征主要表现为出生率、死亡率，竞争食物的能力以及逃避被捕食（或危险）的能力等。
• Molecular analysis show that S locus genes were originated from the same ancestral species and S domain diversification predated the genus divergence.
  分子进化研究表明十字花科S位点基因的多态性来自于共同的祖先，并在不同种分化之前已经形成。