Few of the town's fine buildings predate the earthquake of 1755.
该城那些美的建筑很少是 1755 年大地震前建成的。
1.倒填...的日期,填早于...的日期
2.在日期上早于[先于]
1.to exist or happen earlier than someone or something else
2.to write a date on a document that is earlier than the real date, especially on a check or a contract
1.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？
2.Mr Khamenei had already declared such celebrations, which predate Islam, to be religiously unlawful.
此前，伊朗最高领袖哈梅内伊曾表示，这种庆典早于伊斯兰教存在，在宗教上是非法的。
3."All, " he writes, "predate the Great Recession. But the available data suggest that the Great Recession has reinforced these trends. "
他写到，“所有这些进步的标志都使大衰退提前到来，而且从已有数据来看，大衰退又反过来强化了这些发展趋势。”
4.Unlike most of the other droid military units found in the Confederacy, the LM-432 crab droids do not predate the Clone Wars.
跟邦联的大部分其它军用机器人种类不同，LM-432螃蟹机器人在克隆人战争前并不存在。
5.It says lice are old, predate the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary, and must have been living on something.
它说明了虱子的历史非常久，在白垩纪-早第三纪过渡期之前，而且也肯定是寄生在某种生物上的。
6.It definitely didn't come to English through French since the Old English citations predate the Norman Conquest.
但是可以肯定的是它绝非来源于法语，因为在古英语尚在是有时，诺曼征服的时代还未到来呢。
7.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。
8.It is worth noting that the survey of prices predate some of the measures designed to cool the market.
值得注意的是，先前关于这些措施所调查到的价格数据来看，有些措施对房地产市场具有降温作用。
9.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。
10.Geography partly explains the difference: America is spread out, while European cities predate the car.
也许地理特点可以部分解释两地之间的不同：美国城市是发散式向外建设的，而欧洲城市的形成早于汽车时代。