| 单词 | past |
| 释义 | Word Frequency past(pɑːst) adjective 1. completed, finished, and no longer in existence past happiness 2. denoting or belonging to all or a segment of the time that has elapsed at the present moment the past history of the world 3. denoting a specific unit of time that immediately precedes the present one the past month 4. (prenominal) denoting a person who has held and relinquished an office or position; former a past president 5. grammar denoting any of various tenses of verbs that are used in describing actions, events, or states that have been begun or completed at the time of utterance Compare aorist, imperfect (sense 4), perfect (sense 8)noun 6. the past 7. the history, experience, or background of a nation, person, etc a soldier with a distinguished past 8. an earlier period of someone's life, esp one that contains events kept secret or regarded as disreputable 9. grammar a. a past tense b. a verb in a past tense adverb 10. at a specified or unspecified time before the present; ago three years past 11. on or onwards I greeted him but he just walked past preposition ▶ USAGE The past participle of pass is sometimes wrongly spelt past: the time for recriminations has passed (not past)12. beyond in time it's past midnight 13. beyond in place or position the library is past the church 14. moving beyond; in a direction that passes she walked past me 15. beyond or above the reach, limit, or scope of their foolishness is past comprehension 16. beyond or above in number or amount to count past ten 17. past it 18. not put it past someone Word origin C14: from passed, past participle of pass |
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