date back

基本解釋

Of course,not all of the puppets at the Center for Puppetry Arts date back to ancient times.
the Dead Sea Scrolls.] And some of them date back to the fourth and third century .So do you understand now why everybody was so excited?
其中一些文卷甚至能夠追溯到公元前,三四世紀(jì)，所以你們應(yīng)該明白為什么這么令人興奮了吧！
耶魯公開課 - 舊約導(dǎo)論課程節(jié)選
Some of these books which we think are roughly from a certain date, they will contain narrative snippets or legal materials or oral traditions that may even date back or stretch back further in time, and they were perhaps transmitted orally and then ended up in these written forms.
有些篇章只是被我們粗略地認(rèn)為出現(xiàn)于那個(gè)年代，其中包含的故事片段或律法材料或口頭傳統(tǒng),其實(shí)也許能夠追溯到更久遠(yuǎn)，所以這些很可能一開始是被口頭傳播,后來才用文字形式記載的。
耶魯公開課 - 舊約導(dǎo)論課程節(jié)選

If something dates back to a particular time, it started or was made at that time.