| 单词 | pre-exist |
| 释义 | pre-exist verb[IorT] formaluk/ˌpriː.ɪɡˈzɪst/us/ˌpriː.ɪɡˈzɪst/toexistbefore somethingelse: 先于…存在（或生存）Dinosaurs pre-existedhumanbeingsbymany millions ofyears.恐龙先于人类好几百万年前就存在了。 Existing and being
Examplesofpre-existpre-exist These readings to a great extentpre-exist, and can easily do without our discipline. From theCambridge English Corpus Her argument is that while bodies may indeedpre-existdiscourse, it is impossible to access this "pure" material being other than through socially inflected language. From theCambridge English Corpus If a design canpre-existits representation in drawn form, all of the architects acknowledge the power of drawing to test and develop a design idea. From theCambridge English Corpus Buildingspre-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. From theCambridge English Corpus When you cast the computer into the design studio it discloses ways of working, even before we decide whether these ways of workingpre-existor are newly manufactured. From theCambridge English Corpus An understanding of the conventional patterns and stereotypes thatpre-existin a milieu provide the propagandist with material from which to build off. From Wikipedia  This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.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. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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