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Ski resorts (as the name suggests) predate snowboarding by decades.
滑雪场（恰如其名所提示的：除了跌到之外，只能滑雪）要比滑雪单板提早了几十年。
These problems—a weak government and a welter of aid agencies with clashing agendas—predate the earthquake in Haiti, which long had a reputation as a “Republic of NGOs”.
这些问题——一个羸弱的政府和一批各自为政的救援机构——在地震发生前就存在于海地这个国家了，使之有了“非政府组织共和国”之称。
And it will tend to care more about immediate needs than about whether assets were acquired during the course of the marriage, or predate it, or are the result of an inheritance.
婚前协议往往更多关心直接需要的，而不是关心在婚姻期间或在婚前财产是否能获得或是否能继承遗产。

But bigger worries predate the glitch, not least the ham-fisted handling of quarrels over existing domains.
ECONOMIST: Internet domain names
Many Javanese rituals predate Islam in form, although they have been filled out with Muslim prayers.
ECONOMIST: Islam in Indonesia
His supporters manipulated grievances and ethnic tensions, most of which predate Mr Chaudhry's election in May 1999.
ECONOMIST: Fiji

If you say that one thing predated another, you mean that the first thing happened or existed some time before the second thing.