past
adjective /pɑːst/
/pæst/
过去的;昔日的 - in past years/centuries
在过去几年/几个世纪里 - in times past
在过去 - The time for discussion is past.
讨论的时间已过。 - The days are long past when people worked at the same company all their lives.
人们一生都在同一家公司工作的日子早已过去了。
Homophones passed | pastpassed past/pɑːst//pæst/- passed verb (past tense, past participle of pass)
- You've passed all your exams—well done!
你通过了所有的考试——干得好!
- You've passed all your exams—well done!
- past adjective
- It's arguably the best novel of the past 20 years.
这可以说是过去20年来最好的小说。
- It's arguably the best novel of the past 20 years.
- past noun
- Let's put the past behind us and move on.
让我们忘记过去,继续前进。
- Let's put the past behind us and move on.
- past preposition
- You shouldn't be up, it's past your bedtime!
你不应该起床,已经过了睡觉时间了!
- You shouldn't be up, it's past your bedtime!
- In past years the industry received large subsidies.
在过去,这一行业得到很多的补贴。 - Theatre in past centuries was mass entertainment, but that is not the case today.
过去几个世纪的戏剧是大众娱乐,但今天不是这样。 - The book is a celebration of working class life in times past.
这本书颂扬了过去工人阶级的生活。
- in past years/centuries
刚过去的;刚结束的 - in the past year/month/week
在过去的一年/一个月/一周 - I've seen her several times over the past few days.
这几天我见过她几次。 - The past month has been really busy at work.
上个月工作实在是忙。 - This past summer I worked at a theatre.
今年夏天,我在一家剧院工作。
- in the past year/month/week
从前的;以往的 - From past experience I'd say he'd probably forgotten the time.
根据过去的经验,我想他可能把时间忘了。 - past and present students of the college
学院的老校友和在校生 - Let's forget about who was more to blame—it's all past history.
咱们且忘掉更该责怪谁吧,那都是陈年旧账了。 - I warned her not to repeat her past mistakes.
我警告她不要重蹈覆辙。 - past events
以往的事件 - Americans hold past presidents in high regard.
美国人非常尊敬前任总统。 - He is reluctant to speak about his past life as a professional musician.
他不愿谈论他过去作为职业音乐家的生活。
- From past experience I'd say he'd probably forgotten the time.
) connected with the form of a verb used to express actions in the past语法 (动词)过去式的 - the past tense
过去式
- the past tense
词源Middle English: variant of passed, past participle of pass.