past
美 [pæst] 
英 [pɑːst]
- n.过去；昔日；过去的事情；（某人）过去的经历（或事业）
- prep.超过；晚于；在…之后；在另一边
- adv.经过；逝去；从一侧到另一侧
- adj.过去的；昔日的；刚过去的；刚结束的
- v.“pass”的过去分词
词形变化
复数：pasts 反义词
同义词
英汉双解
| in past years/centuries/ages 在过去的岁月╱世纪╱时代 |
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| The time for discussion is past. 讨论的时间已过。 |
2. | [obn] 刚过去的；刚结束的gone by recently; just ended |
| I haven't seen much of her in the past few weeks. 近几周来我很少见到她。 |
| The past month has been really busy at work. 上个月工作实在是忙。 |
3. | [obn] 从前的；以往的belonging to an earlier time |
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| 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。 |
4. | [obn] （动词）过去式的connected with the form of a verb used to express actions in the past |
1. | [sing] 过去；昔日；过去的事情the time that has gone by; things that happened in an earlier time |
| I used to go there often in the past. 过去我常去那里。 |
| the recent/distant past 最近的╱遥远的过去 |
| She looked back on the past without regret. 她回首往事毫无遗憾。 |
| Writing letters seems to be a thing of the past . 写信好像已是昔日的事情了。 |
2. | [c] （某人）过去的经历（或事业）a person's past life or career |
| We don't know anything about his past. 我们对他的过去一无所知。 |
| They say she has a ‘past’(= bad things in her past life that she wishes to keep secret) . 据说她有一段“过去”（不名誉的秘史）。 |
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| ten (minutes) past six 六点过十分 |
| There's a bus at twenty minutes past the hour(= at 1.20, 2.20, etc.) . 每小时逢二十分发一班公共汽车。 |
| We arrived at two o'clock and left at ten past(= ten minutes past two) . 我们两点钟到达，十分钟后离开。 |
| It was past midnight when we got home. 我们到家已是午夜之后了。 |
2. | 在另一边；到另一侧on or to the other side of sb/sth |
| We live in the house just past the church. 我们就住在挨着教堂那边的房子里。 |
| He hurried past them without stopping. 他匆匆走过他们身边，连停都没停。 |
| He just walked straight past us! 他与我们擦肩而过！ |
3. | 多于；超过above or further than a particular point or stage |
| Unemployment is now past the 3 million mark. 失业人数现在已超过了 300 万大关。 |
| The flowers are past their best. 这些花已过了盛开的季节。 |
| He's past his prime. 他已不再年富力强了。 |
| She's long past retirement age. 她早已超过了退休年龄。 |
| Honestly, I'm past caring what happens(= I can no longer be bothered to care) . 老实说，我已什么事都不关心了。 |
1. | 从一侧到另一侧；经过from one side of sth to the other |
| I called out to him as he ran past. 他跑过时，我大声喊他。 |
2. | （时间）过去，逝去used to describe time passing |
| A week went past and nothing had changed. 一个星期过去了，情况毫无变化。 |
习惯用语
past it
（人）过老而无用；（物）旧得不宜使用too old to do what you used to be able to do; too old to be used for its normal function
| In some sports you're past it by the age of 25. 在某些运动中，人过 25 岁就难有作为了。 |
| That coat is looking decidedly past it. 那件外衣看来绝对穿不出去了。 |
英汉解释
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prep. | 1. (时间)过...,(几点)多,(几岁)以上;通过,走过(某处) |
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英英解释
例句
As soon as I rounded the corner to go past the house, I saw this figure standing out in the cold rain with a sack in his hand.
当我转弯要开过他的房子时，我看到一个身影站在寒冷的雨中，手里拿着一个袋子。
To the world, to read and past, had not gone with the wind, has been deeply buried in the bottom of my heart.
耽于世事，而无暇念及的往事，原来没有随风而去，已深深地埋在心底。
Just like this, many years past, she had not got in touch with me at all.
就这样，一年又一年，很多年过去了，对方始终没跟我联系过。
The enemy will oftentimes try to trip you up in your walk with God by reminding you of your past.
在你与上主同行时，撒旦常常企图利用你的过去绊倒你。
THE scientific study of AIDS has dropped out of the headlines over the past year or two.
对艾滋病的科学研究在最近一两年没有上过新闻头条。
The same as The Evening, I do not know who first think of the festival, and do not know who the first Mid-Autumn Festival is in the past.
像张若虚一样，我不知道是谁第一个想起过中秋的，也不知道第一个中秋是哪些人在过。
We have a paper to get out on Sunday but it's been a fairly extraordinary circumstance over the past few days.
我们将在星期天出版一份报纸，但过去几天的情况非常不同寻常。
These gems have been scattered throughout the city for the past two weeks, giving New Yorkers a chance to put a little groove in their step.
在过去的两周时间，这些艺术的瑰宝在纽约城展览，给了纽约市民一个无限接近艺术的机会。
Integrating China into the international marketplace had been a goal of U. S. policy toward China for the past two decades.
泽奥利克说，促进中国融入国际市场是美国20年来一贯的对华政策目标。
We haven't had a computer for a couple of weeks but I have been able to read up on the "news behind the news" during the past two days.
我们两个星期没有一台电脑，但是在过去的两天中我已经能读到“新闻背后的新闻”。
Temporary Heat Wave: You're in a rut and ready to venture past the usual lunch crowd and meet some new peers.
暂时情绪：你陷入成规、准备脱离常和自己一起吃午饭的人去结识新同事。
Scrying has been used in many cultures as a means of divining the past, present, or future.
在很多的文化中，水晶球占卜都被视为解析过去和现在，预测未来的一种方式。
It feels optimistic, as if representing Mr Siti's ability to see past Iraq's recent sectarian record and into a unified future.
其蕴含了乐观精神，仿佛代表了斯提对伊拉克曾经宗派分裂的记忆和未来统一的向往。
Chinese - funded real estate stocks due to over the past few trading days up in a row and suffered profit - taking.
中资房地产股则因过去几个交易日的连续上涨而遭遇获利回吐。
Over the past two decades, its ratio of imports to GDP (which peaked at 32% in 2005) was more than twice that of Japan's.
在过去的二十年中，它的进口额占国内生产总值比率是日本的两倍以上。
He had been betrayed by his wife for the past five years.
他的妻子在过去的五年里一直背叛着他。
In the past, female pigs or sows were used to hunt for truffles, as the pungent odor the truffles emit is similar to that of a male pig.
在过去，雌猪或母猪被用来寻猎块菌，因为块菌散发出来的刺激性辛辣气味与公猪的相似。
I also like playing with the kids, but I am happy, my life is in the laughter in the past has never been sorry to leave.
我也跟孩子们一样爱玩，但我是幸福的，我的一生都是在欢声笑语中走过的，从未留下过遗憾。
IT HAD been purring along nicely, handling the twists and turns of the world economy, powering past rivals, inspiring envy.
一直以来德国经济运行良好，应对世界经济波动，超越竞争对手，这让人羡慕不已。
She did not know that the past 10 years, boys are so obsessed with dedication and love her!
她一直不知道，这近10年来，男孩是如此执著而痴迷地爱著她！
She turns her shoulder to Charles and walks past him to the more congenial neighbourhood of Dunois and La Hire.
她转过身去，从查理身边走过，来到比较意气相投的杜诺瓦和拉·海当中。
It was past midnight, and my fortieth birthday had begun.
子夜已过，我的40岁生日已经到来。
Mark Twain, the novelist of American boyhood, survived like a ghost from the nineteenth-century past until 1910.
美国早期小说家马克·吐温象一个幽灵一样，从十九世纪一直活到1910年。
The League of Nations is, in a practical sense, a British conception, and it harmonises perfectly with all our past methods and actions.
国际联盟实际上是英国的概念，它和我们以前的一切方法和行动极其和谐一致。
What new information have we gleaned about the comparatively dense gas-dust complexes of the interstellar medium over the past dozen years?
过去的十几年里，有关星际介质的较密气尘复合体我们探明了哪些新东西呢？
Sometimes in the dark we heard the troops marching under the window and guns going past pulled by motor-tractors.
有时在黑暗中，我们听得见部队从窗下走过的声音，还有摩托牵引车拖着大炮经过的响声。
For the first time the significance of police bulletins of the past few days struck home.
几天以来，警察局通告里提出的要点第一次对上了号。
For the past twenty-five years, I have been a competitor of Chrysler.
在过去25年里，我一直是克莱斯勒的一个竞争对手。
The past events were running through my head all day.
往事整天萦绕于我的脑海中。
We should have given a lamp whereby men might have studied the supreme productions of the past.
我们应该提供一盏明灯，以便人们可以学习往昔的崇高成果。
As if he could right the wrongs of the past by his own personal dedication to the cause.
好象通过把他个人奉献给这个事业，就能纠正过去所犯的错误。
If I had a grain of true repentance for an abominable life of twenty-four years past, it was then.
假使我对过去二十四年的罪恶生活有丝毫追悔的话，那就是那个时候。
The driver of the train sets out to determine the length of a fence alongside the road by clocking his time to move past the fence.
火车司机打算记录他经过路旁一个篱笆的时间来测定篱笆的长度。
And yet during the past year even the oasis of Beijing had been invaded by the atmosphere of struggle that hovered over all China.
然而，在过去的一年里，就连北京这块绿洲，也难免受弥漫于全国的战争气氛的侵袭。
For, in good truth, you seem to turn over the pages of my past life far better than I could do myself.
因为说老实话，你对于我的生活看得比我自己还更清楚。
Year after year over the past two decades, Matsushita's growth rate has equaled or surpassed that of all of its global competitors.
20年来，松下公司的增长率，年复一年地相当于或者超过了它在全球的一切竞争者。
You made me wretched enough for the past fortnight: you might have spared me to-day.
这两星期里头你害我还害得不够？今天何必再来呢。
He firmly believed that history was a science, and was a powerful advocate of the value of comparative methods in studying past societies.
他坚信历史是一门科学，大力肯定对以往的各种社会形态使用比较方法进行研究的价值。
He caught hold of her arm as she tried to push past him.
她试图从他身边挤过去时，他一把抓住了她的手臂。
It was a tribute to his popularity that, despite his errors of the past, his army enthusiastically welcomed him back.
尽管他过去犯有错误，他的部下仍旧热烈欢迎他回来，由此可见他人望之高。
The fragrance of forbidden fruit seemed occasionally to float past him and remind him that the finest of pleasures was the rush of action.
禁果的香味偏偏不时在他身边飘过，使他想起，生活中最美好的欢乐只有在行动的激流中才能找到。
People were talking in angry voices as they walked past Gringoire on their way to their homes or to inns.
人们在回家或投宿的路上经过甘果瓦身旁时，正在愤慨地议论着。
She tried to dissociate herself from her past.
她努力使自己与自己的过去决裂。
If you'll accept me, all that past shall be forgotten.
如果你愿意嫁给我，过去的一切都可以一笔勾销。
The train passed through the magnificent mountains, past little farm-houses and streams.
火车驶过巍巍的高山，驶过一些小小的农舍与河流。
They had no knowledge of the past of mankind at all; at best they had a few shrewd guesses.
他们简直对于人类的以往毫无所知，最多不过有些锐利的猜测。
The people who walked past him, American all, stared at his Russian fur hat, and this delighted him.
他身旁走过的行人全都是美国人，都要盯着他那顶俄国毛皮帽子看看，这使他得意洋洋。
They turned to Europe and the past for comfort, and failed to understand their own age or their own country.
他们都只向欧洲和往事中去寻求慰藉；对于他们的时代和国家则一无所知。
He has been confined to bed with flu for the past couple of days.
他因患流感，已经几天未下床了。
He could compute the location of an object in the sky for any date in the past or future.
他可以估算出在过去或将来任何日期一个物体在空中的位置。
Women expect to hear something romantic, like you swooped down on a flying unicorn and popped the question as you flew past the sunset.
这个问题。女人喜欢听到很浪漫的求婚戏码，比方说你在夕阳的背景下骑着飞行的独角兽，突然冲到她面前向她求婚。
Past a certain day and you will no longer have my life, when the firm was unlikely to face this moment of my time, I do not know what I?
过去的某一天，你将不再有我的生命，当时该公司不太可能面对我这时刻，我不知道我？
Chinese ancients with nine for the sun count, the beginning of September nine, two suns are mutually heavy, past call "heavy sun" .
中国古人以九为阳数，九月初九，两阳相重，故叫“重阳”。
In the past, it was suggested that you make a small partition at the beginning of the disk, to be left unformatted.
以前的方法建议您在磁盘的开始处分出一个较小并且不格式化的分区。
Someone said the age of book is past; the information will be presented by video, computer, television and film.
一些人认为书本的时代已经过去了，信息将要靠录像、电脑、电视、电影来传送。
Let me, therefore, go back to my past and say some words about my intellectual journey, although I do not like to speak about myself.
因此，请允许我在此回亿一下我的过去，讲述一些有关我的学智之旅，虽然我不喜欢谈论我自己。
God knows how much i tolerated to love you in the past.
天知道我之前为了爱你忍了多少！
If not for the outcomes of past decisions, would you know what course of actions to take or not to take?
要不是因为过去的决定，你怎么知道做什么，不做什么？
I realize that this partial descriptioon of my past may not be enough to strike the responsive chord of memory.
我知道我说的这一段往事，还不足以让我触景生情。
If you remember nothing else that has appeared in this space over the past four and a bit years, please try to hold on to that thought.
如果你记不住过去四年多一点的时间里出现在此处的其它文字，那么请努力记住这个观点。
The past week hasn't been easy, nobody can imagine what I've been through. It has been a really bad time. I must just put it out of my mind.
过去的几个星期不太容易，没有人想象我是怎么过来的，这真是一场煎熬，我必须把他抛之一边。
Amtrak officials said the system is experiencing significant operational issues because of severe weather over the past few days.
美国铁路运输官员称，由于近几日罕见的天气，火车系统面临巨大挑战。
The experience of the United States over the past few months made it clear that the crisis in a comprehensive way, piecemeal is not enough.
美国过去几个月的经验清楚表明，在危机全面铺开的时候，零敲碎打是远远不够的。
Seize each day. Live each day as if it's your last. Leave the past behind and do not anticipate the future. Be present to enjoy the moment.
把握当下。把每天当作世界末日来过，忘掉过去，把握现在。
It's been a busy past few days trying to finish up filming all my scenes in time to go home for Christmas.
为了回家过圣诞节，过去的几天我都忙于完成自己所有镜头的拍摄。
The island had simply applied for the event under the name 'Taiwan' as it had done without incident in years past, he said.
他说，他们以“台湾”的名字申请参加此次电影节，因为多年来一直是这样，并未出现任何意外。
But others fear the continuing boom is a sign of the very failure of past tightening measures, and that there is still a risk of a crash.
但其他人担心，经济持续快速增长恰恰表明，过去的紧缩政策没有取得成效，中国经济仍存在硬着陆风险。
But it's not clear how much can be done. Cheap food, like cheap oil, may be a thing of the past.
但是，到底还有多少可以做的事，目前尚不明朗。便宜的粮食，和便宜的石油，恐怕都是很遥远的往事了。
High winds which had been fanning huge wild fires to the north of the Greek capital Athens for the past three days have died down.
借着大风，这场火势在希腊首都雅典蔓延了三天三夜之后，终于停息了。
Over the past few months, I've shared with you what I've heard from our shareholders, operators, developers, suppliers and from you.
在过去的几个月里我已经和你们交流了我从我们的股东，运营商，开发商，供应商以及你们听到的声音。
Mr. Casaubon's studies of the past were not carried on by means of such aids.
卡苏朋先生的古代研究也不是靠着这些东西进行的。
Bertha stood upon the high road that ran past Court Leys, and from the height looked down upon the lands that were hers.
伯莎站在经过莱伊府第门前的公路之上，从高处俯视属于她的那片大地。
During the past few years, many new chemicals have been produced for agricultural purposes.
在过去几年中，人们生产了许多新型的农用化学药品。
He blasted the ball past the goalie.
他飞脚将球踢过了守门员。
After the ups and downs, the tensions and agonies of the recent past, I felt cheerful that evening.
经过最近的这一番波折，紧张和痛苦，这天晚上我感到安慰。
For a moment I had triumphed over Time, and my vision had pierced the mystery of the past.
一时间，岁月的鸿沟在我面前化为乌有，幻想揭穿了往昔的全部奥秘。
China's past is distinguished by more than longevity, resiliency, and culture.
中国的过去不仅以历史悠久，富有韧性和文化灿烂而著称。
There was a small seismicity gap around Kawazu for the past 50 years.
在过去的五十年间，河畔附近在一个小的地震空白区。
In the past women were cheated out of their chance for education.
从前妇女被剥夺了受教育的机会。
The two swans had turned their heads, and were looking past him into some distance of their own.
那两只天鹅掉过头来，眼睛掠过他自顾自向远方望去。
