释义 |
past tenseˌpast ˈtense noun [countable] - For instance, the past tense of regular verbs is expressed by adding -d or -ed to the infinitive.
- For the next three weeks my career was in the past tense.
- Humans have no problem in determining that this is the past tense of the verb preach.
- The former wrote of the apostles in the past tense.
- This is written in paragraphs explaining in the past tense what has been seen.
a form of a verb that shows that something happened or existed before the present time, typically a form such as ‘walked’, as in ‘I walked away’ |