In addition to the uses shown below, past is used in the phrasal verb ‘run past’.
除下列用法外,past还可以用于短语动词run past。
1 N-SING [ADJ n] 过去;往昔 The past is the time before the present, and the things that have happened.
过去;往昔 [literary] -
In the past, about a third of the babies born to women with diabetes were lost.
过去,患有糖尿病的女性生下的孩子中约有1/3夭折了。
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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。我们有过同样的经历。
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We would like to put the past behind us.
我们想抛开过去。
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.
生活在过去;留恋往昔 -
What was the point in living in the past, thinking about what had or had not happened?
老是生活在过去,想着曾经发生过,或是没有发生过什么,有什么意义?
2 N-COUNT [usually singular] 经历;过去之事 Your
past consists of all the things that you have done or that have happened to you.
经历;过去之事 3 ADJ [ADJ n] 过去的;以前的 Past events and things happened or existed before the present time.
过去的;以前的 [literary] -
I knew from past experience that alternative therapies could help.
根据过去的经验,我知道替代疗法可能有用。
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...a return to the turbulence of past centuries.
回到过去几个世纪的动荡状态
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The list of past champions includes many British internationals.
历届冠军榜中包括很多英国世界冠军。
Past is also used after periods of time.
(past亦用于时间段之后) 4 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.
刚过去的 5 ADJ [verb-link ADJ] 过去了的;结束了的 If a situation is
past, it has ended and no longer exists.
过去了的;结束了的 [literary] -
Many economists believe the worst of the economic downturn is past.
很多经济学家认为经济衰退最糟糕的时期已经过去了。
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...images from years long past.
很多年以前的形象
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The time for loyalty is past.
忠诚已经过时了。
6 ADJ [ADJ n] (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'.
(动词)过去时的 8 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.
(钟点)过(…分) 9 PREP 在…之后;晚于 If it is
past a particular time, it is later than that time.
在…之后;晚于 -
It was past midnight.
午夜已过。
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It's past your bedtime.
你的就寝时间已经过了。
10 PREP 经过 If you go
past someone or something, you go near them and keep moving, so that they are then behind you.
经过 -
I dashed past him and out of the door.
我从他身边跑过,夺门而出。
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A steady procession of people filed past the coffin.
人们排成一队,一个接一个地从灵柩旁走过。
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He was never able to get past the border guards.
他从未能够通过边防哨兵的检查。
Past is also an adverb.
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An ambulance drove past.
一辆救护车开了过去。
11 PREP 越过 If you look or point
past a person or thing, you look or point at something behind them.
越过 12 PREP 在…的另一侧 If something is
past a place, it is on the other side of it.
在…的另一侧 -
Go north on I-15 to the exit just past Barstow.
沿着15号州际公路一直向北,一过巴斯托就从出口驶出。
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Just past the Barlby roundabout there's temporary traffic lights.
在刚过巴尔比环岛的地方,有一个临时红绿灯。
13 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.
超过,超出(某一点或阶段) -
He was well past retirement age.
他早过了退休年龄。
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They felt that, at 69 or so, Mr Peters was past his prime.
他们觉得69岁左右的彼得斯先生已经风光不再了。
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...a piece of cheese four weeks past its sell-by date.
一块过期4周的奶酪
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The situation is long past the stage when anyone's advice would help.
情况早变了,不是谁提个建议就能补救的事儿。
14 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.
再也无法 -
She was past caring about anything by then and just wanted the pain to end.
那时,她已经什么都不在乎了,只盼着疼痛能够止住。
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Often by the time they do accept the truth they are past being able to put words to feelings.
往往等他们真正接受事实时,他们已无法用语言形容自己的感情了。
If you say that someone or something is
past it, they are no longer able to do what they used to do.
已力不从心;已不能用 15 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.
(某人做某事)并不令人意外 Quotations
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there L. P. Hartley The Go-Between The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet Edward Thomas Early One Morning As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes Margaret Atwood The Handmaid's Tale The past is never dead, it is not even past William Faulkner Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it George Santayana The Life of Reason I think we agree, the past is over George Bush Usage | past and passed |
The adverb or adjective past and the verb passed (past tense of pass) are often confused. They are pronounced the same and can have similar meanings: Jack passed Jill by rolling past her down the hill. This past week, Shaya passed his history exam and his driving test! |
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