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

postdateverb[T](HAPPEN AFTER)

tohappenorexistafter something:
发生（或存在）于…之后；（时间上）后于
Mostmanuscriptspostdate thestoriesthat havecirculatedby word ofmouthforcenturies.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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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Occurring and happening
  • afoot
  • asynchronous
  • attendant
  • be at workidiom
  • become
  • eventuate
  • fall
  • fall into placeidiom
  • follow on
  • go hand in hand withsomethingidiom
  • go on
  • pass
  • result
  • roll
  • roll around
  • shake out
  • succeed
  • supervene
  • sync
  • turn
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postdateverb[T](WRITE DATE)

to write adateon adocument, such as achequeorletter, that islaterthan thedateon which you are writing it, usually to get someadvantage:
在（支票、信件等文件）上把日期填迟；预填…的日期
Luckily, sheletme postdate thechequeuntil the end of themonthwhen I getpaid.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。
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Early
  • ahead
  • ahead of
  • be up with the larkidiom
  • belatedly
  • better
  • better late than neveridiom
  • early adopter
  • early bird
  • get ahead ofyourselfidiom
  • good
  • ill-timed
  • lark
  • mistime
  • premature
  • prematurely
  • prepone
  • schedule
  • short
  • the early bird catches the wormidiom
  • turn into a pumpkinidiom
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(Definition ofpostdatefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

postdate| American Dictionary

postdate
verb[T]
us
/poʊsˈdeɪt,ˈpoʊstˈdeɪt/
to write adate(=day,month, andyear)that islaterthan thepresenton (acheck,letter, ordocument)
(Definition ofpostdatefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpostdate

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Most transparent demonstrators, however,postdatethe general adoption of celluloid for fountain pen manufacture.
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Two nearby gravespostdatethe 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 manuscriptspostdatethat period.
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Compared to the abundant use of such items in sites postdating 50,000 this absence is telling.
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Biases in the fossil record can be due to features or mechanisms predating or postdating the collecting or during the collection process itself.
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Rather, haematite precipitation postdated the dolomite and took advantage of the dolomite crystal fabric.
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None of these nine essays (in their original-language versions) postdates 1987.
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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.
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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.
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The burial postdates the shaft-tombs period.
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Since most manuscriptspostdatethe composition of the romances they contain, some by a century or more, they provide indirect evidence of both sorts of audiences.
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The hominid fossils were found at the base of a sandstone with fragments of tuff, showing that theypostdatethe tuff, but probably by only a short period of time.
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If the date of felling of the tree can be determined and shown topostdatethe death of the artist, the painting is clearly a fake.
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Awareness of risk ordinarily postdates the commencement of injecting behaviour.
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