| 单词 | past |
| 释义 | past (pɑːst , pæst ) Word forms: pasts In addition to the uses shown below, past is used in the phrasal verb 'run past'. 1. singular noun B1 The past is the time before the present, and the things that have happened. In the past, about a third of the babies born to women with diabetes were lost. He should learn from the mistakes of the past. We have been here before. We would like to put the past behind us. live in the past phrase B2 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. [disapproval] What was the point in living in the past, thinking about what had or had not happened? 2. countable noun [usually singular] B1 Your past consists of all the things that you have done or that have happened to you. ...revelations about his past. ...Germany's recent past. Synonyms: background, life, experience, history 3. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] B1 Past events and things happened or existed before the present time. I knew from past experience that alternative therapies could help. ...a return to the turbulence of past centuries. The list of past champions includes many British internationals. Synonyms: former, late, early, recent Past is also used after periods of time. [literary] A South Korean newspaper said today the event will be smaller than in years past. 4. adjective B1 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. Most shops have remained closed for the past three days. ...the momentous events of the past few days. Synonyms: last, recent, previous, preceding 5. adjective [verb-link ADJECTIVE] B2 If a situation is past, it has ended and no longer exists. [literary] Many economists believe the worst of the economic downturn is past. ...images from years long past. The time for loyalty is past. 6. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] B1 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'. 7. See also past perfect 8. preposition A1 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. It's ten past eleven. I arrived at half past ten. Past is also an adverb. I have my lunch at half past. 9. preposition B2 If it is past a particular time, it is later than that time. It was past midnight. It's past your bedtime. Synonyms: after, beyond, later than, over 10. preposition A2 If you go past someone or something, you go near them and keep moving, so that they are then behind you. I dashed past him and out of the door. A steady procession of people filed past the coffin. He was never able to get past the border guards. Synonyms: by, across, in front of Past is also an adverb. An ambulance drove past. 11. preposition B1+ If you look or point past a person or thing, you look or point at something behind them. She stared past Christine at the bed. 12. preposition A2 If something is past a place, it is on the other side of it. Go north on I-15 to the exit just past Barstow. Just past the Barlby roundabout there's temporary traffic lights. 13. preposition B2 If someone or something is past a particular point or stage, they are no longer at that point or stage. He was well past retirement age. ...a piece of cheese four weeks past its sell-by date. The situation is long past the stage when anyone's advice would help. 14. preposition 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. She was past caring about anything by then and just wanted the pain to end. Often by the time they do accept the truth they are past being able to put words to feelings. past it phrase If you say that someone or something is past it, they are no longer able to do what they used to do. [informal, disapproval] I suppose they're saying that I'm past it. We could do with a new car. The one we've got is a bit past it. 15. would not put it past sb/would not put anything past sb phrase 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. You know what she's like. I wouldn't put it past her to call the police and say I stole them. Quotations: The past is a foreign country; they do things differently thereThe Go-Between The past is the only dead thing that smells sweetEarly One Morning As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoesThe Handmaid's Tale The past is never dead, it is not even past Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat itThe Life of Reason I think we agree, the past is over Idioms: past your sell-by date [British] no longer useful, successful, or relevant This type of TV programme is well past its sell-by date. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers be past it or be getting past it to no longer be as good as in the past My husband Eric could do with another second-hand car. The one we've got at the moment is getting a bit past it. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers I wouldn't put it past someone said to mean that you would not be surprised if someone did something bad I wouldn't put it past him to double-cross Schrader, especially after the rumour I heard the other day. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers first past the post finishing first or achieving something first in a race or competitive situation First past the post was Kenyan athlete John Mutai, who pipped Irishman Jerry Healy by just 20 seconds. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: dark past I don't want to relive my dark past. The Sun (2013) All have dark pasts. Times, Sunday Times (2015) She bought the house in 2004, not having any clue about its haunted reputation or its dark past. The Sun (2014) A whole race of people can suffer from some trauma that goes back to the distant historical past. Caring for your Unborn Child (1990) But in the more distant past, that was very far from being the case. The Times Literary Supplement (2014) We are all prone to become misty-eyed about the distant past. Times, Sunday Times (2016) Robert and I were in a nightclub last night till half past one. Times, Sunday Times (2016) It was about half past three. Times, Sunday Times (2015) He used to go at half past five in the morning. Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There (2006) Why not take a trip into Lancashire's dark and murky past? The Sun (2013) Some people from his murky past aren't so convinced of his pure motives. The Sun (2008) His murky past has been a prominent feature of the campaign. Times, Sunday Times (2016) At the beginning of each special programme the public could vote for a past winner. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Some past winners simply picked out names they liked or reminded them of family members. The Sun Past winners would know the work involved and what you have to go through. The Sun One in five past winners have gone on to successfully commercialise their ideas. The Sun Past winners have come from all over the world. Times, Sunday Times We will meet to preserve the past, not to alter the future. Christianity Today Yet now as in the 1950s, we wouldn't need such media to scaffold our memories if our own biological resources really did preserve the past in pristine form. The Times Literary Supplement In exchange for the gift of health and immortality they work to preserve the past for sale in the future. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Deliberate efforts must be made in order to preserve the past. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It’s only been in the last century, though, that real effort has gone into preserving that past. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 For Scottish nationalists these episodes are evidence of a rich cultural past in which Scotland was independent and should be so again. Times, Sunday Times (2013) The property, a 20- minute drive from Carlisle and 90 minutes from Newcastle, has a rich past. Times, Sunday Times (2012) Everywhere, I find influences of Norway's rich past, with ribbed ceilings, wood panelling and integrated metal work inspired by the original Viking ships. Times, Sunday Times (2015) But now the child's troubled past comes back to haunt them both. The Sun (2015) She sounds like a troubled person with a troubled past. The Sun (2016) If he has had a troubled past then he needs to see a decent future ahead. The Sun (2006) Translations: Chinese: 过去的, 过去, 越过, 在…另一侧 Japanese: 過ぎ去った, 過去, ･･･を過ぎて, ･･･のそばの |
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