predate

过去分词：

动词过去分词: predated

更多词形：

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 |

单词例句：

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

predate

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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。

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。