汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 先于
先于 (先於)
antecedent to / anterior to / in advance of
xiān () yú
EXAMPLE SENTENCES

先于他走出屋子。

She preceded him out of the room.

落点优先于力道,这句话总是真实的。

As is always true, placement over power.

该规则优先于测试到期日期的所有下列规则。

This rule has priority over all following rules for the tests due date.

贪婪是邪恶的,它是一种先于上帝与人类的原罪。

Greed is iniquitous, a sin before God and man.

由此可见,祖先崇拜是先于一切日常生活的首要事情,祖庙及祭器高于一切其他日用器物。

It can be seen that ancestor worship is the first priority in all matters of daily life, above all else Sacrificial Temple and other daily-use items.

当然会有人反对,尤其是保守分子,但邓肯选择先于国会采取行动的做法无可非议。

There will be opposition, particularly from conservatives, but Mr. Duncan was right not to wait for Congress to act.

就其诞生时间来说,它先于西方女权主义运动40年,因而极具超前意识和先锋派风格。

It was more or less 40 years ahead of the surge of Feminism Movement in the west.

在这里又和上面一样,人的本质先于我们在经验中所遭逢到的历史存在。

Here again, the essence of man precedes that historic existence which we confront in experience.

先于释迦牟尼佛圆寂,上生兜率天(那儿一昼夜,相当于人间四百年)内院,为补处菩萨。

He died before Sakyamuni and ascended to the adytum of Tusita heaven as the following Bodhisattva, where a day equals four hundred years of the our world.

以世代交替为特色的腔肠动物;通常群居的水螅阶段先于水母阶段;水螅和水母。

Coelenterates typically having alternation of generations; hydroid phase is usually colonial giving rise to the medusoid phase by budding: hydras and jellyfishes.