| 词汇 | postdating |
| 释义 | postdating present participle ofpostdate 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。 Compare backdate predate(BE BEFORE) Occurring and happening afoot asynchronous asynchronously attend attendant be at workidiom crop ensue ensuing eventuate fall into placeidiom follow on go off gone resynchronization resynchronize roll roll around shake out succeed 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。 Early ahead ahead of be up with the larkidiom belatedly better better late than neveridiom first get ahead of yourselfidiom get out over your skisidiom good ill-timed in good timeidiom premature prematurely prepone pumpkin schedule short ski the early bird catches the wormidiom Examples of postdatingpostdating In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. 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. There are a few scattered houses from around the district postdating this period. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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