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That almost certainly predates human civilisation.

那几乎是在人类文明之前了。

000 Leagues Under the Sea. Jules Verne. Captain Nemo's exploration of the oceans and battle for their control. Verne's Nautilus predates real submarines.

尼摩船长在大洋中的历险和为了他们的控制权而发生的战斗。凡尔纳的鹦鹉螺号早于真正的潜水艇。

As with the Easter Bunny and the holiday itself, the Easter Egg predates the Christian holiday of Easter.

与复活兔和复活节一样，复活蛋预示着圣诞节的即将到来。

Note that this method is identical in functionality to contains ( which predates the Map interface ).

注意该方法和contains ( 其早于Map接口 ) 功能上相同.

Rachel O'Connell, safety officer at Bebo, pointed out that bullying predates the internet and children were simply using new tools to do what they have always done.

Bebo的安全官雷切尔•奥康内尔（Rachel O'Connell）指出，在互联网出现之前，欺凌现象就已经存在了，孩子们只是用新的工具来做他们以前一直在做的事。

Maybe this resistance is because my life experience predates computers being so entwined into daily life.

或许这种反感的原因来源于我在电脑与日常生活联系如此紧密之前的人生经历.

But legend has it that the name derives from a real man, and the origin is much akin to that of Kilroy. Uncle Sam predates Flagg's poster by over a century and is the product of a different war.

但有传说是这样的：山姆大叔确有其人，其来源与Kilroy（奈尔洛艾）和来源相似。山姆大叔出现的时间要比弗兰格的广告早一个世纪，它是另一场战争的产品。

The F-16's evolution predates the ECP process for the airplane.

F -16 的发展过程对于飞机本身来说要早于ECP程序的开始.

Broadway and Las Vegas certainly wouldn't be the same without the bright neon lights that have made them famous, but oddly, the creation of neon lights is an old one-one that predates knowledge of the element.

光怪陆离的百老汇和拉斯维加斯如今这么有名，但如果没有闪闪发光的霓虹灯，那这两个地方绝对会泯然于众。霓虹灯的发明是很久之前的事了，在人们对于氖气一无所知前就已经创造出了霓虹灯。

The monument predates the arrival of the druids in Britain.

这一遗迹在德鲁伊特来到不列颠前就已存在。