PHRASAL VERB If something dates back to a particular time, it started or was made at that time. 追溯
The issue is not a new one. It dates back to the 1930s at least.
这杂志不是新的,它至少可以追溯到20世纪30年代。
The tradition could date back to 300 BC.
这一传统可追溯到公元前300年。
Graffiti, soccer hooliganism, and street brawling all date back decades.
涂鸦、足球流氓和街头闹事都可追溯到几十年前。
Others point out that the first weather stations in the far north date back just 50 years.
另一些人指出,在遥远的北方建立的第一批气象站能追溯到50年前。
Of course,not all of the puppets at the Center for Puppetry Arts date back to ancient times.
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the Dead Sea Scrolls.] And some of them date back to the fourth and third century .So do you understand now why everybody was so excited?
其中一些文卷甚至能够追溯到公元前,三四世纪,所以你们应该明白为什么这么令人兴奋了吧!
Some of these books which we think are roughly from a certain date, they will contain narrative snippets or legal materials or oral traditions that may even date back or stretch back further in time, and they were perhaps transmitted orally and then ended up in these written forms.
有些篇章只是被我们粗略地认为出现于那个年代,其中包含的故事片段或律法材料或口头传统,其实也许能够追溯到更久远,所以这些很可能一开始是被口头传播,后来才用文字形式记载的。
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