| 单词 | past historic |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspast historic past historic n. and adj. Grammar (a) n. a tense expressing completed action in the past; (b) adj. designating this tense, or a verb form of this tense. ΚΠ 1923 Mod. Lang. Notes 38 179 The treatment of the regular conjugations is in the main like that of other books, with a break from the old tense names..to the newer..terminology of Past Descriptive.., Past Historic, etc. 1958 J. Wilson Lang. & Christian Belief v. 56 The Christian belief in the Creation, as expressed in the statement ‘God made the world’... We treat the statement as referring to an event, assuming ‘made’ to be used, as normally, in the past historic tense. 1977 C. K. Stead in J. Pilditch Crit. Response to Katherine Mansfield (1996) iv. 163 Its tense is almost exclusively past historic which, because it makes each action finite and exclusive, is hardly different in effect from present tense narration. 1999 M. Hawcroft Rhetoric iv. 105 The imperfect tense perhaps suggests that the pleasures are not necessarily over for good in the way that the past historic would have done. < as lemmas |
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