date back

英 [deɪt bæk]

美 [deɪt bæk]

追溯（到）; 开始（于）; 始建（于）

TOEFL

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 追溯（到）；开始（于）；始造（或建）（于）
  If somethingdates back toa particular time, it started or was made at that time.
  1. ...a palace dating back to the 16th century...
     始建于 16 世纪的王宫
  2. This tradition dates back over 200 years.
     这一传统可追溯到 200 多年以前。

英英释义

verb

• belong to an earlier time
  1. This story dates back 200 years
  Synonym:go backdate from

双语例句

• What time can the marathon date back to?
  马拉松可以追溯到何时？
• But our accounts date back to the beginning of banking itself.
  但是我们开户的日期可以追溯到早在银行成立之时。
• Hungarian regulations concerning industrial designs date back to 1907.
  匈牙利立法中有关工业设计的保护可以追溯到1907年。
• Oxford and Cambridge date back to the thirteenth century.
  牛津和剑桥的历史可追溯到十三世纪。
• Chinese acrobatic has a long his-tory which can date back to more than two thousand years ago.
  没错。中国的杂技源远流长，可追溯到两千多年前。
• Although the origins of taekwondo date back thousands of years, the triathlon dates back to 1978.
  跆拳道的起源可追溯到几千年以前，而铁人三项在1978年才诞生。
• Originally a sanctuary for battle-weary warriors, the impressive remains of the Royal Palace date back to the12th century.
  这里最初是那些厌倦了战争的战士们的避难所，这些让人印象深刻的皇宫旧址要追溯到12世纪。
• It is said that the term probably can date back to feudal Japanese times.
  据说这个词可以追溯到日本的封建时期。
• But records of ocean temperatures are patchy, and in any case date back only half a century.
  不过，现存有关海洋温度的记录少得可怜，人们最多只能找到半个世纪前的记录。
• And I think that economic ties and commercial ties that are taking place in this region are helping to lower a lot of the tensions that date back before you were born or even before I was born.
  而且我认为，这个地区正在建立的经济和商贸联系有助于缓解很多在你们出生前，甚至在我出生前就已形成的紧张关系。