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词汇 postdate
释义 postdate
verb[ T ]
uk /ˌpəʊstˈdeɪt//ˈpəʊst.deɪt/ us /ˌpoʊstˈdeɪt/

postdateverb[T] (HAPPEN AFTER)


to happen or exist after something: 发生(或存在)于…之后;(时间上)后于
Most manuscripts postdate the stories that have circulated by word of mouth for centuries.大部分故事都是在口头流传数个世纪后才有书面记载的。
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backdate
predate(BE BEFORE)
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Occurring and happening
afoot
asynchronous
asynchronously
attend
attendant
be at workidiom
ensue
ensuing
eventuate
fall into placeidiom
follow on
go off
gone
pass
resynchronize
roll
roll around
shake out
succeed
supervene

postdateverb[T] (WRITE DATE)


to write a date on a document, such as a cheque or letter, that is later than the date on which you are writing it, usually to get some advantage: 在(支票、信件等文件)上把日期填迟;预填…的日期
Luckily, she let me postdate the cheque until the end of the month when I get paid.幸运的是,她让我将支票上的日期填为月底,这样我就可以等拿了工资再付钱了。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Early
ahead
ahead of
be up with the larkidiom
belatedly
better
better late than neveridiom
early bird
get ahead of yourselfidiom
get out over your skisidiom
ill-timed
mistime
premature
prematurely
prepone
pumpkin
schedule
short
the early bird catches the wormidiom
timeously
turn into a pumpkinidiom

postdate | American Dictionary


postdate
verb[ T ]
us/poʊsˈdeɪt, ˈpoʊstˈdeɪt/
to write a date (= day, month, and year) that is later than the present on (a check, letter, or document)

Examples of postdate


postdate
Most transparent demonstrators, however, postdate the general adoption of celluloid for fountain pen manufacture.
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Two nearby graves postdate the earthwork by several centuries, but coincide with that activity.
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The highly degraded nature of c1 craters makes it impossible to determine whether the craters predate, postdate, or are contemporaneous with the intercrater plains unit.
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Few of its manuscripts postdate that period.
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Compared to the abundant use of such items in sites postdating 50,000 this absence is telling.
Biases in the fossil record can be due to features or mechanisms predating or postdating the collecting or during the collection process itself.
Rather, haematite precipitation postdated the dolomite and took advantage of the dolomite crystal fabric.
None of these nine essays (in their original-language versions) postdates 1987.
Because social class is a historical construct formulated in a period that postdates the period under examination, it is arguably inappropriate for application across such a broad historical period.
The arrangement here seems based on the notion that script and scripture are inextricably linked and that the sacred texts necessarily postdated the invention of writing.
The burial postdates the shaft-tombs period.
Since most manuscripts postdate the composition of the romances they contain, some by a century or more, they provide indirect evidence of both sorts of audiences.
The hominid fossils were found at the base of a sandstone with fragments of tuff, showing that they postdate the tuff, but probably by only a short period of time.
If the date of felling of the tree can be determined and shown to postdate the death of the artist, the painting is clearly a fake.
Awareness of risk ordinarily postdates the commencement of injecting behaviour.
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