Actually, worship predates music.

事实上，未有音乐之前已有敬拜。

Part of the gloom predates the financial crisis.

失望早于金融危机之前就存在。

But awareness of boxing's dangers long predates modern research.

而对于拳击危害的意识很早就进入了现代研究的范畴。

But the tradition of self-promotion predates the camera by millenniums.

但是，自我推销的传统要比照相机的发明早几千年。

The world’s oldest computer predates Bill Gates only by about 2,000 years.

世界上最古老的计算机要比比尔.盖茨发明的早至少2000年。

It predates the World Wide Web and began on private networks in the 1960's.

它早在万维网上，并开始对私人网络，在1960年的。

Laughter probably predates human speech by millions of years, scientists think.

科学家们认为，笑的产生也许比人类语言早数百万年。

The move to increase standards predates No Child Left Behind by at least a decade, he says.

此举提高标准早没有一个孩子掉队，至少在十年内，他说。

He springs from the cold, infinite void that both predates the universe and awaits its end.

他来自寒冷的无尽虚空，目睹宇宙诞生，见证宇宙终结。

The definition of prehistory is that it predates written records - history begins with the written word.

对史前史进行定义需要追溯到人类有文字记录之前。历史始于文字记录。

Fishing is one of the primary forms of food production; it ranks with farming and probably predates it.

渔业是极古老的生产事业之一，可能比农业还早。

The work from Piet Mondrian on the next page predates his more popular imagery that we’ve already looked at.

下页里这幅蒙德里安的作品比我们前面所看到的那幅更流行的画作要更早一些。

The FSF has a penchant for puns, and this one seemed appropriate, I suppose. The name predates my involvement.

自由软件基金会对双关语有强烈嗜好，而且我以为，这一个看来好象是相称的。这一名字早在我参与之前就有。

For these patients, our treatment options effectively go back to the era that predates the advent of antibiotics.

对于这类患者，我们的治疗选择实际上回到了抗生素出现以前的时期。

The word wife predates an association with being married or unmarried and in our earliest records just meant “woman.”

早先，wife一词与已婚或未婚有关，在更早的记录里，只表示“女人”。

These can all be dismissed because of lack of evidence or because OK predates the events that supposedly led to creation.

由于缺乏证据或由于OK一词产生于那些可能产生该词的事情以前，这些流行的说法都可能被否定。

Gecko, which originated at Netscape and predates KHTML, is often criticized for its large and infamously complex code base.

gecko源自netscape，并早于KHTML, Gecko因庞大与复杂的代码基础而频遭诟病。

But we do know this: unchecked, XDR-TB could take us back to the treatment era that predates the development of antibiotics.

但是这一点我们很清楚：广泛耐药结核病若不加以制止，它很有可能使治疗效果倒退到没有研发出抗生素的岁月。

This volcanic rock, in the Champagne Pools on Fraser's northern shore, predates the rest of the island by millions of years.

弗雷泽岛北岸香槟池中的这块火山岩比岛上其它岩石出现早了数百万年。

Invented over 40 years ago, email predates the Internet as we know it-and in fact was a crucial tool in the creation of the Internet.

电子邮件发明于40年前，它早于众所周知的因特网，事实上他是建立互联网时候的一个很重要的工具。

Second, this snapshot of America’s food culture and eating habits predates the homogenizing influence of Wal-Mart, McDonald’s and so on.

第二，这本选集作为美国食物和饮食习惯的快照，早于沃尔玛、麦当劳等均质化的影响。

That use that predates the others at 1894 and seems the only one of the group whose first citation didn't come from a lexicographer's pen.

上述用法出现得最早——1894年，它也是唯一一个不是出自词典编纂者笔下的例证。

But some estimate the woodland could be as old as 1 million years, which would mean Pando predates the earliest Homo sapiens by 800, 000 years.

还有一些人估计这片丛林至少有100万年了，这意味着它们比智人(Homo sapiens)还要早800 000年。