每日N词 | antedate-早于… | 20170920
Alaska antedates Hawaii as a state, having gained statehood on January 3, 1959, seven months before Hawaii.
阿拉斯加立州要比夏威夷早，它在1959年1月3日成为一个州，比夏威夷早7个月。
▷antedate [.ænti'deɪt]（v.）
【释义】When things antedate something else, they come before it, or happen earlier than it does. World War I antedates World War II.(Another way to say antedate is precede or predate. It's common to find the word antedate when people talk about history, for obvious reasons. Papyrus antedates modern paper, and paper antedates the desktop computer, which antedates the smartphone and tablet. Your parents' birth antedates your own, and your great-grandparents' lives antedate both yours and your parents'. In Latin, the prefix ante means "before.")
to have existed or happened before another thing
早于…存在（或发生）
每日N词 | postmortem-验尸;事后剖析 | 20170904
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