We hunt from the car, which the Major considered effete. The custom antedates automobiles, going back to the days of the hunting wagon.

我们从车里打猎，少校认这很无力。这种习俗早于汽车，可以追猎马车的时代。

I swore out a new warrant for Henry's arrest. The sheriff hedged, for Old Boss and the judge antedated me. He could not find Henry, he said.

我发誓对亨利发出新的逮捕令。治安官对，老老板和法官先于我。他找不亨利，他说。

This vehicle, like the bicycle, is not essentially a modern invention; the reason any one can manufacture it is that practically all the basic ideas antedate 1840.

这种交通工具， 就像自行车一样， 本质上并不是现代发明； 任何人都可以制造它的原是几乎所有的基本思想都早于 1840 年。