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past

英  [pɑːst]
    

[ADJ, ADV, NOUN, PREP]

    ADJ. 形容词
  • 1. 以前的

    Past events and things happened or existed before the present time.

    近义词

    previous , earlier

    反义词

    current , future

    双语例句

    例：

    I knew from past experience that alternative therapies could help.

    根据以往的经验，我知道其他的治疗方法可能有效。

    例：

    a return to the turbulence of past centuries.

    回到过去几个中世纪中的动荡状态。

    2. 刚过去的

    You use past to talk about a period of time that has just finished. For example, if you talk about the past five years, you mean the period of five years that has just finished.

    近义词

    last

    双语例句

    例：

    Most shops have remained closed for the past three days.

    在刚过去的3天里大多数商店一直关着门。

    ADV. 副词
  • 1. （钟点）过了

    You use past when you are stating a time that is thirty minutes or less after the hour nearest to the present time. For example, if it is four o'clock and you say that you are leaving at twenty past, it means that you are leaving at twenty past four.

    双语例句

    例：

    I have my lunch at half past.

    我半点的时候吃午餐。

    2. 经过

    If something goes past, it comes near you and then keeps moving, so that you are then behind it.

    近义词

    by

    双语例句

    例：

    An ambulance drove past.

    一辆救护车驶了过去。

    NOUN. 名词

  • pasts

    1. [SING 单数型名词] 过去

    The past is the time before the present, and the things that have happened.

    近义词

    history

    双语例句

    例：

    In the past, about a third of the babies born to women with diabetes died.

    在过去，患有糖尿病的妇女生的婴儿中大约有三分之一都夭折了。

    例：

    He should learn from the mistakes of the past. We have been here before.

    他应该从过去的错误中吸取教训。我们已有过这样的经历了。

    2. [C 可数名词] 经历

    Your past consists of all the things that you have done or that have happened to you.

    双语例句

    例：

    revelations about his past.

    关于他的过往经历的揭露。

    例：

    Germany's recent past.

    德国的近代历史。

    PHRASE. 习语

  • live in the past

    1. 活在过去

    If you accuse someone of living in the past, you mean that they think too much about the past or believe that things are the same as they were in the past.

    双语例句

    例：

    What was the point in living in the past, thinking about what had or had not happened?

    活在过去有什么意义，念念不忘已经发生的事情或者没有发生的事情？

    PREP. 介词
  • 1. （指钟点）过

    You use past when you are stating a time that is thirty minutes or less after a particular hour. For example, if it is twenty past six, it is twenty minutes after six o'clock.

    双语例句

    例：

    It's ten past eleven.

    11:10了。

    2. 晚于

    If it is past a particular time, it is later than that time.

    近义词

    gone , after

    双语例句

    例：

    It was past midnight.

    过了午夜。

    3. 经过

    If you go past someone or something, you go near them and keep moving, so that they are then behind you.

    近义词

    by

    双语例句

    例：

    I dashed past him and out of the door.

    我跑过他的身边，夺门而出。

    例：

    A steady procession of people filed past the coffin.

    人们排成队，缓缓地走过灵柩。

    4. 越过

    If you look or point past a person or thing, you look or point at something behind them.

    双语例句

    例：

    She stared past Christine at the bed.

    她的目光越过克里斯蒂娜盯着那张床。

    5. 在…另一侧

    If something is past a place, it is on the other side of it.

    双语例句

    例：

    Go north on I-15 to the exit just past Barstow.

    顺着I-15州际公路向北走，出口就在巴斯托的另一侧。

    6. 超过（某一点或阶段）

    If someone or something is past a particular point or stage, they are no longer at that point or stage.

    双语例句

    例：

    He was well past retirement age.

    他早过了退休年龄。

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