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单词 a thing of the past
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a thing of the past
a. The time that has gone by; a time, or all of the time, before the present. Frequently in a thing of the past.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [phrase] > that which is old-fashioned or obsolete
a thing of the pasta1500
a1500 tr. A. Chartier Traité de l'Esperance (Rawl.) (1974) 120 (MED) Passid [Fr. le passé] is now taken from theim and to come thei abide for to come.
c1530 W. Walter Spectacle of Lovers sig. Biii Loue hath the made for to be agast That wysedome and vertue is clerely from the past.
1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets cxxiii. sig. H2v Not wondring at the present, nor the past . View more context for this quotation
a1678 A. Marvell Poem upon Death O. C. 285 in Misc. Poems (1681) 151 As long as future time succeeds the past, Always thy honour, praise and name shall last.
1739 D. Hume Treat. Human Nature I. iii. 239 An experiment in the past proves at least a possibility for the future.
1743 A. Pope Ess. Man (new ed.) ii. 52 Then see how little the remaining sum, Which serv'd the past, and must the times to come.
1817 Ld. Byron Manfred i. i. 14 We are eternal; and to us the past Is, as the future, present.
1850 Southern Q. Rev. July 1/2 449 The Republic of Liberia, like Hayti, would soon be a thing of the past.
1871 S. Smiles Character vii. 201 Men of a comparatively remote past.
1914 E. R. Burroughs Tarzan of Apes xviii. 248 He had been too preoccupied with his own scholarly thoughts in the past.
1977 C. Allen Raj i. 21/2 By the 1880s the discomfort of travelling by palkee (palanquin)..was already becoming a thing of the past.
2002 Sci. Amer. Feb. 20/3 The U.S. shows no sign of reinstituting the extremely restrictive immigration laws of the past.
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