1·She was just about to apologize when he pre-empted her.
她正想道歉，他却抢先说了。
—— 《牛津词典》
2·The scheduled programme will be pre-empted by a special news bulletin.
预先安排好的节目将临时换成特别新闻简报。
—— 《牛津词典》
3·It has got around the state monopoly on advertising by deploying its trademark blimps, and pre-empted objections to that by using them to advocate a worthy cause: safe driving.
固异特公司使用其软式小型飞船的商标在国家垄断的媒体上大做广告，为了反对其垄断还抢先打出了有价值的倡议：安全驾驶。
4·But America's food industry pre-empted the FDA by launching its own "Nutrition Keys" labelling system in January.
但是，元月份，美国的食品行业通过推出自己的“营养诀窍”抢先否决了食品及药物管理局。
5·In 2005 Apple won a legal case that forced Bloggers to name the sources of information that pre-empted the launch of new Apple products.
在2005年，苹果在一场强制博客博主提供预先透露的苹果新产品的信息来源的诉讼中胜出。
6·A low priority thread (at priority P3) acquires the lock on an object and is pre-empted by a higher priority thread (at priority P1), as the specification mandates.
就像规范要求的那样，一个低优先级线程(优先级p3)获取了一个对象的锁，会被一个高优先级(优先级p1)的线程夺取执行权。
7·NASA's breathless press conference breaking the news, which pre-empted daytime programming, signaled that the discovery should be taken very seriously.
NASA在一场令人窒息的新闻发布会上宣布了这个重大新闻，发布会甚至替换了白天的节目，可见这项发现有多重要。
8·In May 2011, the Supreme Court decided in Chamber of Commerce v. Whiting that Arizona's employer sanctions law was not pre-empted because it promoted the objectives of federal law.
2011年5月，最高法院在商会与鳕鱼协会的诉讼中裁定亚利桑那州的雇主处罚法与联邦法律并不冲突，因为它促进了联邦法律目标的实现。
9·Plans to raise the issue at the World Health Assembly in May 2009 were pre-empted by the H1N1 influenza pandemic and hopes have refocused on this year's upcoming Assembly.
H1N 1流感大流行阻碍了2009年5月在世界卫生大会上提出该问题的计划，现在把希望重新放在今年即将召开的大会上。
10·Warner, a media conglomerate. But Google pre-empted its rivals last winter and bought a defensive stake in AOL.
但是google却先于对手在去年冬天就购入了一些AOL股份来防御对手并购。