predate
[pri:'deit]
v.在日期上早于
词形变化：
动词过去式: predated | 动词过去分词: predated | 动词现在分词: predating | 动词第三人称单数: predates |
vt.
把……的日期填得早于实际日期; 在日期上早于
predate
过去式：predated
过去分词：predated
现在进行时：predating
词形变化：
动词过去式: predated | 动词过去分词: predated | 动词现在分词: predating | 动词第三人称单数: predates |
同义词：
antedate | precede | antecede | go before | preexist | pre-exist | prelude | come before | forgo | raven | forego | foredate | prey |
反义词：
postdate |
词义辨析：
同义参见:
antedate
predate[pri:'deit]vt.1.■倒填…的日期；把…的日期填早：to predate a check把支票上的日期填早2.■比…较早到来(或发生)；在日期上早于：This coin predates the Qing Dynasty.这种硬币是在清朝以前就有的。变形vt.predatedpredating
predatepredate[ˈpri:ˈdeit]vt.1.■倒填...日期, 把...的日期填早2.■在日期上早于[先于]He predated the check by five days.他把支票上的日期填早了五天。
predate
动词 predate:
be earlier in time; go back further
同义词：precede, forego, forgo, antecede, antedate
come before
同义词：precede
prey on or hunt for
establish something as being earlier relative to something else
predate
■As I drove to her house, I actually had a case of predate jitters! What would we talk about? What if she didn't like the restaurant chose?
4我开车驶往母亲住所，竟感到约会前的紧张不安。我们将谈些什么呢?如果她不喜欢我选的餐馆怎么办?
■Several non-commercial email games played on the Internet and BITNET predate these.
一些经互联网或BITNET游玩的非商业性的电子邮递式游戏预示了这些情况。
■In fact, stone tools predate human history.
事实上，早期人类就开始使用石器。
■Two species, Conus textile and Babylonia areolata, which can predate Cy-matium but do not damage Pinctada martensii were screened from 11 common species ofcarnivorous gastropods in the Sanya sea area of Hainan Island.
从海南岛三亚海区 11种常见的肉食性腹足类中，筛选出 2种能捕食嵌线螺 Cymatium但不危害合浦珠母贝 Pinctada martensii的物种：织锦芋螺 Conus textile和方斑东风螺 Bab－ylonia areolata。
■Their exact origin is unknown, but they predate the arrival of missionaries to China, and speak eloquently of the message which motivated Daddy to devote his life to serving the people of China.
他们确切的籍贯无从查考，但他们把到中国的传教之旅提前了，他们巧舌如簧地传递着信息，促使父亲从此把毕生精力致力于在中国向人们传教。
■some of the buildings at the site predate them by 500 years.
但该地的若干建筑物早在公元前七七六年的奥运举行前五百年就存在了。
■For example, the fact that whale and human music have so much in common even though our evolutionary paths have not intersected for nearly 60 million years suggests that music may predate humans.
例如，鲸和人类的音乐就有许多相同之处，尽管我们各自的进化途径在6千万年里并没有任何交叉点。从这一点上可以看出，音乐可能早于人类而出现。
■Distributed computing is by no means a new idea: many concepts that underlie today's grid systems predate even the Internet.
分配计算绝不是一个新想法: 强调今天栅格系统的许多概念把甚而互联网日期填早。
■Additionally, the origins of this word predate the Islamic era in Iran.
另外, 这个词的词源居先在伊斯兰教的时期，在伊朗出现。
■And so the mask is inserted into the flow earlier, and compositions that technically predate it obscure it.
因此，这幅脸谱被提前安插到图像流里，让那些技术上说应该早于它的画盖住它艳丽的颜色。
■Popular games in China typically feature elves, dwarves or characters that predate the past century of political turmoil.
在中国流行的游戏中往往包含了侏儒、魔法师或者上世纪政治混乱中的角色形象。
■Yet iron and stony meteorites are very rare.Most meteorites consist instead of chondrules, which are millimeter-size pebbles that predate the formation of planetesimals and cannot survive melting.
在雪线上，水分子从尘埃颗粒上蒸腾之后会聚积在一块儿，而水份的聚积则会引发一连串的效应，使得雪线上的气体性质产生不连续性，进而导致该处的压力下降。
■is a paradise only for uome, she argues.Employees who predate the IPO resemble aristocracy.
她还讲到，并不是完美无缺，在公司上市前就服务于公司的老员工被视做公司的“贵族”；
■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。
■The custom of the wedding veil is thought to predate the wedding dress by centuries.
婚纱的习俗比结婚礼服还要早几个世纪。
■The custom of the wedding veil should predate wedding dress by centries.
婚纱的习俗要比婚服早几个世纪。
■HAN Chang-shuan; CHEN Li-juan（Anhui Predate Pharmaceutical Science &Technic Co.Ltd; Hefei 230022）;
安徽省普瑞达医药科技有限公司;
■"Though claims of great antiquity have been made for Scottish tartans, few seem to predate the 17th or even 18th century as clan emblems."
尽管人们早已认为许多苏格兰家族或氏族的花格图案具有重要意义和古代渊源,但出现于17世纪,甚至是18世纪的花格图案通常被看作是部落的标志的象征。
■Many of Baltimore's economic problems, however (the decline of the shipping and steel industries, a falling population) predate the current recession;
巴尔的摩的许多经济问题（航运业和钢铁业走下坡路和人口减少）在现在的经济危机爆发前便已出现。
■Bathing pools, of course, predate swimming pools, and we have all heard of the lavish and sophisticated ancient baths.
当然，泳池是由洗澡池演变过来的，我们经常听到“奢华考究的古浴场”的说法。
■As I drove to her house, I actually had a case of predate jitters!
我 开 车 驶 往 母 亲 住 所 ， 竟 感 到 约 会 前 的 紧 张 不 安 。
■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。
■As I drove to her house, I actually had a case of predate jitters! What would we talk about? What if she didn't like the restaurant I chose?
我开车驶往母亲住所,竟感到约会前的紧张不安。我们将谈些什么呢?如果她不喜欢我选的餐馆怎么办?
■4. as i drove to her house, i actually had a case of predate jitters !
我开车驶往母亲住所，竟感到约会前的紧张不安。
■As I drove to her house, I actually had a case of predate jitters ! What would we talk about? What if she didn't like the restaurant I chose?
我开车驶往母亲住所，竟感到约会前的紧张不安。将谈些什么呢?她不喜欢我选的餐馆怎么办?
■As I drov kto her house, I actually had a case of predate jitters ! mhat would we talk about? What if she didn't like the restaurant I chose?
我开车驶往母亲住所，竟感到约会前的紧张不安。我们将谈些什么呢?如果她不喜欢我选的餐馆怎么办?
■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。
■to predate a check
把支票上的日期填早
■It is unclear how aid flows are responding to the slowdown but the most recent data (which predate the crisis) hardly encourages hopes of a substantial expansion.
援助资金流动怎样对经济减速做出反应还不清楚，而且最近的数据（经济危机前的）几乎没有显示出有大量增加的希望。
■Describes several telegraph systems, in many countries, that predate electrical telegraphs.
文中讲述了在电话之前许多国家的几种电报系统。
■The organizing stages that predate entry into an organizational population were studied from an ecological perspective.
本文通过组织生态学的角度，对组织实际运作之前的组织准备阶段加以研究。
■If they are, in fact, writing, they predate the commonly accepted origin of cuneiform writing in Mesopotamia by 200 years.
果真如此的话，那它们就可能比公认的美索不达米亚最早的楔形文字早大约200年。
■Symptoms of shortness of breath are common and can predate radiographic abnormalities.
气促症状一般较常见并且早于放射学检查之前。
■Wagoner's tenure came amidst extraordinary challenges that weren't entirely of his own making -- including costly retiree benefits and union contracts that predate him, and the recent deep recession.
然而按照绝大多数指标进行衡量，通用仍然比其他的汽车公司表现差。
■Indeed, this strand may well predate the anti-pollution effort
而且，这一目标或许要早于防止污染。
■Many of these groups predate the Afghan or Pakistani Taliban and tend to remain independent of either group.
许多这类组织早在阿富汗或巴基斯坦塔利班之前便彼此独立，并仍保持这一倾向。
■But, being over 11,000 years old, they predate the domestication of cereals in the Middle East by a millennium.
这些谷仓有11，000年的历史了，比中东地区种植谷物的时间还要早将近一千年。
■motorius seed by rodents are 28.3% and 16.5% respectively in Jinggu and Menglun,in contrast with the high rates(77%,daily and 35.7%,night)of dispersal by ants when rodents can not predate the seeds.
阻止蚂蚁搬运,景谷和勐仑实验点啮齿类对舞草种子的取食率分别为28.3%和16.5%; 而阻止啮齿类取食,蚂蚁搬运的舞草种子率白天可达77%,晚上为35.7%。
■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。