ago

英[əˈɡəʊ]美[əˈɡoʊ]

adv.以前；

例句

The children came in an hour ago from their long walk,and now they’re in the dining-room eating their heads off.孩子们走了很长的路,一小时前刚到,现在正在餐厅里大吃呢。

She rang up about an hour ago.她约在一小时前打过电话。

Is the same chairman still knocking about? I thought he had left years ago.这位**还活着?我还以为他多年前就死了呢。

Is the chairman still kicking about? I thought he had left years ago.这位**还活着?我还以为他多年前就死了呢。

She was well-known two years ago.两年前她就出名了。

Our message doesn't seem to have got through, we've had no reply through it was sent several days ago.我们的信件看来没有收到, 因为已经寄了好几天了, 可至今还没有接到回音。

That style of music died out ten years ago.那种风格的音乐10年前就消失了。

Such attitudes were not at all uncommon thirty years ago.这些看法在30 年前很常见。

That clock ran down hours ago.那座钟在几小时以前就停了。

Short skirts went out a few years ago, but they've come back again.短裙几年前不流行了, 现在又再度流行了。

英语六级真题

Another influential feeder for advanced-math students is an online school called Art of Problem Solving, which began about 13 years ago and now has 15,000 users.

And the reality is that antibiotics have been responsible for saving millions of lives since penicillin, one of the earliest antibiotics, was first used on a clinical basis 70 years ago.

The protection and improvement of the human environment is a major issue which affects the well-being of peoples and economic development throughout the world, read the final declaration from this gathering, the first of a sequence which would lead to the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit in 1992 and the World Development Summit in Johannesburg three years ago.

Nearly a decade ago it was predicted that viewers of Friends, a popular situation comedy, would soon be able to purchase a sweater like Jennifer Aniston's with a few taps on their remote control.

How much is today's spirit of harmony a change from our more turbulent past? A mere generation ago, parentchild relations were described as the generation gap.

Gregg Rosen lost his job as a sales  nearly three years ago and is still unemployed.

More than 100 years ago, American sociologist W.

And if you suspected that the workplace had gotten more stressful than it was just a few decades ago, you're right.

One hundred years ago, Colored was the typical way of referring to Americans of African descent.

More than a decade ago, cognitive scientists John Bransford and Daniel Schwartz, both then at Vanderbilt University, found that what distinguished young adults from children was not the ability to retain facts or apply prior knowledge to a new situation but a quality they called preparation for future learning.

I became aware of the trials of career-focused European woman a few years ago when I met a post-doctoral student from Germany who was then a visiting fellow at Johns Hopkins.

Writing was only invented 5,500 years ago

There was a time not long ago when new science Ph.

Writer friends of mine pay good money to get the Freedom software that enables them to disable the very Internet connections that seemed so emancipating not long ago.

The last time I was in the hermitage, three months ago

The graduation rate among 25- to 34-year-olds is no better than the rate for the 55- to 64-year-olds who were going to college more than 30 years ago.

Picture a typical MBA lecture theatre twenty years ago

I've been looking for a suitable place since I got here six months ago.

He was kidnapped eight months ago.

"The protection and improvement of the human environment is a major issue which affects the well-being of peoples and economic development throughout the world," read the final declaration from this gathering, the first of a sequence which would lead to t

A decade ago, this island's ecosystem was in chaos.

A mere generation ago, parent-child relations were described as "the generation gap".

And if you suspected that the workplace had gotten more stressful than it was just a few decades ago, you're right.

Barrett wanted to find out if the absence of physical currency does indeed cause a person to spend more, so she decided to conduct an experiment a few months ago.

Even five years ago most people faced a choice.

Gregg Rosen lost his job as a sales nearly three years ago and is still unemployed.

However, the last such increase in temperature took place two years ago.

I just got the idea a few months ago after posting some holiday photos on my social media accounts.

Let's face it, it wasn't too long ago that the idea of working from anywhere and at anytime was some form of a distant utopian dream,and yet now we can perform almost any office-based task from any location in the world as long as we have access to the in

More than a decade ago, cognitive scientists John Bransford and Daniel Schwartz, both then at Vanderbilt University, found that what distinguished young adults from children was not the ability to retain facts or apply prior knowledge to a new situation b

Nearly a decade ago it was predicted that viewers of "Friends", a popular situation comedy, would soon be able to purchase a sweater like Jennifer Aniston's with a few taps on their remote control.

nine decades ago, leading economists predicted that technological advances and rising productivity would mean that would be working a 15-hour week.

Not so long ago, people would have turned up their noses at that kind of dedication to the job.

One hundred years ago, "Colored" was the typical way of referring to Americans of African descent .

Our species originated around 200,000 years ago and underwent tremendous diversification culturally, technologically, linguistically, artistically for 130,000 years.

Several years ago when my grandparents were well into their eighties, they were faced with the reality of no longer being able to adequately care for themselves.

This is more than twice the level of two decades ago.

Twenty years ago, the Urban Land Institute defined the two types of cities that dominated the US landscape: smaller cities that operated around standard 9-5 business hours and large metropolitan areas that ran all 24 hours of the day.

We can make a very good estimate from the fossil record that humans probably evolved naked skin around a million and a half years ago and meanwhile they mostly lost their coat of fur.

What we see today is the product of evolutionary events resulting from the dispersal of a few human populations out of Africa around 60, 000 to 70, 000 years ago.

When I re-entered the full-time workforce a few years ago after a decade of solitary self-employment, there was one thing I was looking forward to the most: the opportunity to have work friends once again.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

ADV

以前

You use ago when you are referring to past time. For example, if something happened one year ago, it is one year since it happened. If it happened a long time ago, it is a long time since it happened.

例句

英汉词典释义

adv.

以前

英英词典释义

Adjective

1. gone by; or in the past;

Adverb

1. in the past;