past

英 [pɑːst] 美 [pæst]

• prep. 过；经过
• adv. 过
• adj. 过去的
• n. 过去；昔日；过去的事情；过去的经历；往事

双解释义

adj. (形容词)

1. 以前的,过去的

   gone by in time

2. 结束了的,不复存在的

   finished; ended

3. [A]前任的,已卸任的

   former; previous

n. (名词)

1. [S]过去,昔时; 往事

   time before the present; what happened in time before the present

2. [S]过去的生活〔经历〕

   person's past life or career

prep. (介词)

1. (表示时间)超过,在…之后,晚于

   (of time) later than sth; after

2. (表示距离)远于,在…的更远处

   on the far side of sth

3. (表示关涉)从…旁边过去,通过

   from one side to the other of sb/sth

4. (表示程度)超出,超越

   beyond the limits of sth/doing sth

5. (表示数目)超过,过于

   beyond a specified number

adv. (副词)

1. 经过,过

   from one side to the other of sth

详尽释义

prep. 介词

1. 超过
2. 通过
3. 晚于，迟于
4. 过…
5. 越过
6. 经（过）
7. 多于，以上
8. 走过
9. 错过去
10. 掠过
11. 在…之后
12. 在另一边
13. 过老而无用，旧得不宜使用

adv. 副词

1. 过
2. 经过
3. 越过
4. 逝（去）
5. 从一侧到另一侧，穿过
6. 过去
7. 超过

adj. 形容词

1. 过去的，刚过去的，过去了的
2. 前任的，曾任的
3. 完了的，刚结束的
4. 以前的，以往的，昔日的，从前的
5. 【文、语法】过去式的

n. 名词

1. 往事，经历，过去的事
2. 过去，昔日
3. 【文、语法】过去式
4. 过去的（生活）经历
5. 不光彩的往事，可疑的经历
6. 旧梦
7. 历史
8. 古

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1. pass的过去分词

英英释义

Noun:

1. the time that has elapsed;

   "forget the past"
   

2. a earlier period in someone's life (especially one that they have reason to keep secret);

   "reporters dug into the candidate's past"
   

3. a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past

Adjective:

1. earlier than the present time; no longer current;

   "time past"
   "his youth is past"
   "this past Thursday"
   "the past year"
   

2. of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office;

   "a retiring member of the board"
   

Adverb:

1. so as to pass a given point;

   "every hour a train goes past"
   

例句

用作介词 (prep.)

1. It is past my power.
   这是我力所不及的。
2. It was past midnight when we got home.
   我们到家时已过半夜.

用作副词 (adv.)

1. He hurried past me without stopping.
   他匆忙从我身边走过，连停都没停。
2. They walked past without stopping
   他们一步不停地走了过去。
3. We drove past the house.
   我们开车经过那座房子。

用作形容词 (adj.)

1. His pain is past now.
   他的痛苦现在已经过去。

常见句型

用作形容词 (adj.)

用作定语

～+ n.

1. For the past few days he has been ill.
   几天以来他一直生病。
2. These things happened in the past years.
   这些事情都发生在过去的年代里。
3. He is the past vice-president.
   他就是前任副总统。

用作表语

S+be+～

1. His prime is past.
   他的青春已经不复存在了。
2. Winter is past.
   冬天已经过去了。
3. The Second World War was past.
   第二次世界大战已经结束了。

用作名词 (n.)

1. The past is past.Let us look ahead.
   过去的事已成过去,让我们向前看吧。
2. Here was the royal residences in the past.
   过去,这儿是王室住宅。
3. We cannot undo the past.
   我们无法挽回过去的事。

用作介词 (prep.)

1. The time is ten minutes past eight.
   现在是8点10分。
2. Summer is past its full.
   盛夏已过。
3. Dancing was kept up till past two.
   舞会一直开到两点以后。
4. The hospital is about a mile past the school.
   医院在离学校一英里以外的地方。
5. The village is past the bus stop.
   公共汽车站过去一点就是村庄。
6. They went past the department store.
   他们从百货公司的旁边经过。
7. He set store on her past everything.
   他把她看得比什么都重。
8. It is past my ability.
   这是我力所不及的。
9. The hairs on his chin are not past five or six.
   他下巴上的毛最多也不过五六根。
10. The child can't count past 20.
    这孩子不能数过20。

用作副词 (adv.)

1. A car ran past at full speed.
   一辆汽车以全速驶过。
2. Children came running past.
   孩子们跑了过去。
3. The years went past.
   岁月流逝。

经典引文

• Time was; Time is: but..lay hold on the Opportunity before the Time is past.

  出自：Gentleman's Magazine

• Whatever..caused her past distress,..had no power to cloud her pleasure now.

  出自： A. Harding

• We can remember some things clearly, others, perhaps less long past, not at all.

  出自： M. Warnock

• The clock said five past ten.

  出自： G. Greene

• You should have been..at home by eleven. But you didn't get in till quarter past.

  出自： R. Rendell

• It was past two o'clock.

  出自： D. Abse

• A fine handsome woman, only a little past her first youth.

  出自： J. Wain

• The bowl of hyacinths, now a little past their best.

  出自： B. Pym

常用短语

用作介词 (prep.)

past it

失去原有的效用〔精力〕too old to be effective

词汇搭配

用作形容词 (adj.)

～+名词

• past experience 过去的经验
• past president 前任会长〔校长〕
• past success 昔日的成功

名词+～

• some time past 前些时候
• ten years past 十年前

用作名词 (n.)

动词+～

• bury〔forget〕 one's past 忘掉〔记〕过去
• know sb's past 知道某人的老底
• make past serve present 古为今用
• recall〔recapture〕 one's past 回忆往事
• regret one's past 后悔昔日的行为
• repair one's past 弥补过去的缺陷

形容词+～

• dark〔dead, remote, splendid〕 past 黑暗〔不复存在,遥远,光辉〕的过去
• recent past 最近
• unforgettable past 难忘的往事

介词+～

• during immediate past 在最近
• in past 在过去,从前
• facts of past 以往的事实
• man with long past 阅历颇深的人
• woman with past 过去生活放荡的女人

用作副词 (adv.)

动词+～

• go〔march, rush, walk〕 past 行走〔行军,奔跑,步行〕经过

词义辨析

prep. (介词)

past, after, to

• 这三个词均可表示钟点。表示在30分钟之内时可以用after或past,但前者一般用于美式英语,而后者在美式英语和英式英语中通用; 在表示超过30分钟时要用to,其后接下一个钟点。

近反义词

【近义词】

• ancient
• early
• finished
• recent
• history
• old
• times
• by
• beyond
• through

【反义词】

• coming
• future
• later
• present
• future
• now
• present