predate

常見(jiàn)例句

Ski resorts (as the name suggests) predate snowboarding by decades.
滑雪場(chǎng)（恰如其名所提示的：除了跌到之外，衹能滑雪）要比滑雪單板提早了幾十年。
These problems—a weak government and a welter of aid agencies with clashing agendas—predate the earthquake in Haiti, which long had a reputation as a “Republic of NGOs”.
這些問(wèn)題——一個(gè)羸弱的政府和一批各自爲(wèi)政的救援機(jī)搆——在地震發(fā)生前就存在於海地這個(gè)國(guó)家了，使之有了“非政府組織共和國(guó)”之稱。
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.
婚前協(xié)議往往更多關(guān)心直接需要的，而不是關(guān)心在婚姻期間或在婚前財(cái)産是否能獲得或是否能繼承遺産。

But bigger worries predate the glitch, not least the ham-fisted handling of quarrels over existing domains.
ECONOMIST: Internet domain names
Many Javanese rituals predate Islam in form, although they have been filled out with Muslim prayers.
ECONOMIST: Islam in Indonesia
His supporters manipulated grievances and ethnic tensions, most of which predate Mr Chaudhry's election in May 1999.
ECONOMIST: Fiji