His troubles predated the recession.
他的麻烦早在经济衰退前就出现了。
Food scholars believe the earliest versions predated the 18th-century popularization of tomatoes in Italy.
食品领域的研究者认为，它最早的版本要早于18世纪才在意大利普及的番茄。
There is the Xia which predated them but by all historical records, the earliest that one started was 2000 BC.
但是根据所有的历史记录，夏朝的历史要更早，其可追溯到公元前2000年。
Nokia had previously said it would use Maemo on a small number of phones, but this predated news of the MeeGo OS.
诺基亚过去虽然也曾经有表示过会用Maemo平台开发多款手机，但这些言论全部都是在他们与Intel定下有关MeeGo系统的海誓山盟之前说出来的。
How did beliefs that predated the worship of deities come to become associated with controlling gods and goddesses?
这是怎么早崇拜的神灵信仰来与控制，成为神和女神有关？
Partly this showed the age of MathML, since all of the initial design predated the final version of the XML standard.
这在一定程度上反映了MathML的年头，因为所有最初的设计都早于最终版的XML标准。
This cover, from 1962, predated the now traditional bubble covers, but remains a classic example of British self-deprecation.
这张封面源自1962年，早于现在传统的泡泡封面，但仍是英式自嘲的经典图片。
The romantic comedy is a mainstay of popular entertainment, existing in theater and literature that predated the movies.
这部浪漫喜剧是流行娱乐电影（包括在剧院和文学作品中的电影）的流砥柱。
No citations were found that predated Tolkien’s 1937 use in the book of the same name, so that’s what’s given as hobbit’s earliest usage in OED.
在托尔金1937年将这一单词用于同名书中之前，没有相关引文被找到，所以《牛津英语词典》给出的就是关于hobbit一词最早的用法。
No citations were found that predated Tolkien's 1937 use in the book of the same name, so that's what's given as hobbit's earliest usage in OED.
在托尔金1937年将这一单词用于同名书中之前，没有相关引文被找到，所以《牛津英语词典》给出的就是关于hobbit一词最早的用法。
Of interest, though not well known, is the fact that the laparoscopic approach to hernia repair actually predated the laparoscopic cholecystectomy.
让人感兴趣的是，腹腔镜疝修补实际上早于腹腔镜胆囊切除术，尽管有关的具体情况还不十分清楚。
And there is room for improvement in some areas: the Boulder parking lot, which predated the new building, is not permeable. There is no gray water system.
在一些地区，需要改进的空间：先于新建筑的大型停车场，具有不透水性，无灰水系统。
That only just predated the invention of the light bulb whose first stirrings began in the early 1800s and finally became a commercial product in the last 20 years of that century.
这只比灯泡的发明早一点，灯泡的逐渐使用始于19世纪早期，并最终在19世纪的最后二十年成为了一件商品。
The assessment found that some of these gaps predated the conflict, but like many people, health workers also fled the hostilities and some have not yet been able to return to work.
评估查明，其中一些差距早在冲突之前就存在，但是如同许多民众一样，卫生工作者也逃离敌对行动并且一些人尚未能返回工作。
Though the authors note as a curiosity that campaigns against secondary smoke predated the evidence that it did any harm, they show no desire to explore this seemingly reversed causality.
先有了抗议二次吸烟的运动，然后才出现相关的证据，虽然作者对此表示好奇，但他们并不打算深究这种似乎前后颠倒的因果关系。
That suggests the neurological changes which gave rise to humanity may have predated the brain's expansion-an event that had, hitherto, been regarded as crucial to the emergence of humans.
这表明产生人类的神经系统变化可能早于南方古猿大脑的扩张——大脑扩张至今仍被认为是人类出现的重要因素。
That suggests the neurological changes which gave rise to humanity may have predated the brain's expansion—an event that had, hitherto, been regarded as crucial to the emergence of humans.
这表明，人类产生所依赖的大脑神经上的变化，有可能在大脑变大之前就已经出现，这也是迄今为止被认为是人类诞生的关键因素。
That suggests the neurological changes which gave rise to humanity may have predated the brain's expansion—an event that had, hitherto, been regarded as crucial to the emergence of humans.
这表明，人类产生所依赖的大脑神经上的变化，有可能在大脑变大之前就已经出现，这也是迄今为止被认为是人类诞生的关键因素。
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