past

英[pɑːst]美[pæst]

adj.过去的，以前的，结束的，前任的；

n.过去，过往，往事，[语]过去时；

prep.超过，超出，远于，越过；

adv.经过，超过；

复数：pasts;

例句

She never liked to be reminded of the past.她从来就不愿别人提起往事。

It is already five past eight but only ten office workers have signed in.已经八点五分了, 只有十个办公人员签到。

After all the suffering that you have had to reckon with in the past, your present struggle will seem easy.在你战胜了过去种种磨难之后, 你目前的斗争看来是容易的。

The report will be left on the shelf as so many reports have been left in the past.这份报告将要和过去的许多报告一样被束之高阁。

Don't mention the past.What we are talking about is the here and now.别提过去, 我们说的是现在。

a past that was scarcely savory不正经的过去

The hands of the clock pointed to half past eight.It was time we put our children to bed.钟的指针指在八点半上, 我们该让孩子们上床睡觉了。

I have little information as regards his past.我对他过去的情况不太了解。

This yogurt is past its sell-by date.酸奶已经过期了。

this deeply traumatic incident in his past这件给他留下深深的精神创伤的往事

英语六级真题

Some socioeconomic differences in child rearing have shrunk in the past ten years.

Of families earning more than $75,000 a year, 84% say their children have participated in organized sports over the past year, 64% have done volunteer work and 62% have taken lessons in music, dance or art.

In the past few years, MathCounts added two new middle school programs to try to diversify its participant pool—the National Math Club and the Math Video Challenge.

In the past decade, even as income inequality has grown, some of the socioeconomic differences in parenting, like reading to children and going to libraries, have narrowed.

In fact, in line with past experience, capital expenditure in the oil sector has dropped sharply in many producing countries, including the United States.

American parents want similar things for their children, the Pew report and past research have found: for them to be healthy and happy, honest and ethical, caring and compassionate.

In the past, health experts warned us that the day would come in which it would become very difficult to provide medical care for even common problems such as lung infection or severe sour throat.

Within just the past five years, I have noticed parents returning to a belief that teenagers need the guidance of elders rather than the liberal, anything goes mode of child-rearing that became popular in the second half of the 20th century.

In the past, the young have eagerly participated in national service and civic affairs, often with lots of energy and idealism.

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.

And perhaps parents are acting more like parents than in the recent past.

In just the past few weeks, the world has witnessed the destructive power of earthquakes in Indonesia, typhoons in the Philippines, and the destructive sea waves that struck Samoa and neighboring islands.

find digital devices simply indispensablecommunicate primarily by mobile phonelight their homes with stored solar energydistribute power with wires and wooden polesbenefit their business transmit power faster promote innovationencourage competitionIt might become a thing of the past.

Even the technology press conferences, which have been high-profile in the past and reached a level of drama and theatrics fitting for a Las Vegas stage, have a different bent to them.

In the past few months, I’ve been travelling for weeks at a time with only one suitcase of clothes.

Devils Tower is a relic of the past.

Professor of Sociology at WashingtonUniversity, has written numerous articles and books on the issues facing older Americans in our graying society for the past 15 years.

And I was up well past midnight.

But over the past few decades a unique class of satellites has been created that fits the bill: CubeSats.

Electronics giants like Best Buy and Samsung have provided e-waste take-back programs over the past few years, which aim to refurbish (翻新) old electronic components and parts into new products.

Even the technology press conferences, which have been high-profile in the past and reached a level of drama and theatrics fitting for a Las Vegas stage, have a different bent to them.

How much is today's spirit of harmony a change from our more turbulent past?

I want to tell you about the past, present and future of the human population.

If you are walking past a pizza restaurant at lunchtime, your emotions and feelings probably will be stronger than your knowledge that pizza may not be the best food for your health.

In part, the authors wrote in HBR, this pattern may have to do with the way work itself has changed over the past several decades.

In response to past critics, Twenge and her co-researchers stress they are not trying to prove that the use of digital devices reduces young people's well-being.

In the past 12 months, Nigeria has suffered from a shrinking economy, a sliding currency, and a prolonged fuel shortage.

In the past few months, I've been travelling for weeks at a time with only one suitcase of clothes.

In the past few years, Math Counts added two new middle school programs to try to diversify its participant pool—the National Math Club and the Math video Challenge.

In the past, scientists often worked alone.

It studies these populations, in the past, present and future, using quantitative data and mathematical models as tools of analysis.

My grandfather spoke of his greatest fear, that of leaving the only home they had known for the past 60 years.

Over the past few years, we have made dramatic breakthroughs.

Researchers in psychology, a field rocked by findings of irreproducibility in the past few years, have been especially vocal supporters of the drive for more-open science.

Satellite observations and submarine surveys over the past few years had shown less ice in the polar region, but the recent measurements show the loss is more pronounced than previously thought.

Senator Hokkons Baules, lead sponsor of the Palau National Marine Sanctuary Act, said the sanctuary will "help build a secure future for the Palauan people by honoring the conservation traditions of our past".

Staff from the Norwegian government have carried out conservation work on 10 of the churches over the past two years.

The Amish are often 33 perceived by other Americans to be relics of the past who live a simple, inflexible life dedicated to inconvenient out-dated customs.

The fundamental limitation of machine learning is that it needs to learn from large volumes of past data.

These buildings offer vital insight into Scandinavia's Viking past.

This is opposed to just price and performance they were concerned about in the past.

This means minors enjoy material benefits and legal protections that would have been the envy of those living in the past.

Whereas local collaborations sometimes persist past the point of usefulness because of social or academic obligations, international ones can be cultivated and dropped more freely.

within just the past five years, I have noticed parents returning to a belief that teenagers need the guidance of elders rather than the liberal, "anything goes" mode of child-rearing that became popular in the second half of the 20th century.

You said you did the purchase here this past weekend?

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

N-SING

过去；往昔

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

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N-COUNT

经历；过去之事

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

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ADJ

过去的；以前的

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

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ADJ

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.

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ADJ

过去了的；结束了的

If a situation is past, it has ended and no longer exists.

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ADJ

（动词）过去时的

In grammar, the past tenses of a verb are the ones used to talk about things that happened at some time before the present. The simple past tense uses the past form of a verb, which for regular verbs ends in '-ed', as in 'They walked back to the car'.

PREP

（钟点）过（…分）

You use past when you are stating a time which 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.

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PREP

在…之后；晚于

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

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PREP

经过

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

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PREP

越过

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

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PREP

在…的另一侧

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

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PREP

超过，超出（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.

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PREP

再也无法

If you are past doing something, you are no longer able to do it. For example, if you are past caring, you do not care about something any more because so many bad things have happened to you.

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PHRASE

（某人做某事）并不令人意外

If you say that you would not put it past someone to do something bad, you mean that you would not be surprised if they did it because you think their character is bad.

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英汉词典释义

adj.

以前的, 过去的，昔日的

结束了的; 不复存在的

前任的; 已卸任的

1 刚过去的；刚结束的 2 从前的；以往的 3 过去式的

在另一边；到另一侧

n.

过去, 昔时昔日; 往事，过去的事情

过去的生活[经历或事业]

prep.

(表示时间)迟于, 在…之后, 晚于

(表示距离)远于, 在…的更远处

(表示关涉)从…旁边过去, 通过

(表示程度)超出, 超越，多于，超过

(表示数目)超过, 过于

adv.

经过, 过

1 从一侧到另一侧；穿过 2 （时间）过去，逝去

英英词典释义

Noun

1. the time that has elapsed;

2. a earlier period in someone's life (especially one that they have reason to keep secret);

3. a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past

Adjective

1. earlier than the present time; no longer current;

2. of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office;

3. a verb tense or other construction referring to events or states that existed at some previous time;

Adverb

1. so as to pass a given point;

行业词典

物理学： 过去；