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词汇 pre-exist
释义 pre-exist
verb[ I or T ]
 formaluk /ˌpriː.ɪɡˈzɪst/ us /ˌpriː.ɪɡˈzɪst/
to exist before something else: 先于…存在(或生存)
Dinosaurs pre-existed human beings by many millions of years.恐龙先于人类好几百万年前就存在了。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Existing and being
account for something
alive
be
be a thingidiom
been
estate
existent
existential
existentially
extant
found
living
run
self-existent
speckle
spring up
stand
they're
thing
thingness

Examples of pre-exist


pre-exist
These readings to a great extent pre-exist, and can easily do without our discipline.
Her argument is that while bodies may indeed pre-exist discourse, it is impossible to access this "pure" material being other than through socially inflected language.
If a design can pre-exist its representation in drawn form, all of the architects acknowledge the power of drawing to test and develop a design idea.
Buildings pre-exist; people, architects, produce buildings outside the academic context, and we must, as academics, take note of their activity in defining the nature of the discipline of architecture.
When you cast the computer into the design studio it discloses ways of working, even before we decide whether these ways of working pre-exist or are newly manufactured.
An understanding of the conventional patterns and stereotypes that pre-exist in a milieu provide the propagandist with material from which to build off.
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It is a matter of fact in each case that the existence of the warrant is lawful only if the consent of the prisoner pre-exists it.
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