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

• His troubles predated the recession
  他的问题在经济萧条前就出现了。
• To complicate matters, insiders say, Mr Winters whose career at JPMorgan predated Mr Dimon's arrival had an independent streak, operated from a powerful platform in London and held strong views on how to run the bank.
  令事情更复杂的是，知情人士表示，在戴蒙到来之前就在摩根大通供职的温特斯个性独立，从伦敦的一个强大平台运作，并对如何经营该行看法鲜明。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Drum towers and half-moons held up better against catapults, since thrown stones were more apt to deflect off a curved wall, but Raventree predated that particular bit of builder's wisdom.
  圆形突出于外墙的鼓楼和半月形突出于城墙的塔楼更有利于防御投石机的攻击，因为弧形能更有效的反射飞石，但是显然鸦树城比建筑师积累起这条特殊智慧的年代更为久远。
• 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 Soviet Union's ethnic murders predated Nazi Germany's.
  苏联的种族屠杀要早于纳粹德国。