| 单词 | past |
| 释义 | past (once / 28 pages) 1adjn 2adv Past events have already happened — if it happened an Ice Age ago, a century ago, or even a minute ago, it's in the past. They say the past is history and it's true. If you have ever been accused of "living in the past," you cling to what was instead of reveling in what is. If you hear that a person or a rare object in an antique store "has a past," get ready for a colorful story. As an adjective, past describes what is no longer current, like the past president of a club or past fashion craze — it's over: its time has passed. WORD FAMILYpast: pastness, pasts, repast+/repast: repasts USAGE EXAMPLESIt also encapsulates the host of worries of possible conflicts of interest circulating around a president who is very different from America’s past leaders. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) She was a past president of the Washington Society of Investment Analysts. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) “We thought this would be a way to get past the unfortunate bigotry,” Shalaby said. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1adj earlier than the present time; no longer current time past his youth is past this past Thursday the past year Syn|Ant noncurrent not current or belonging to the present time outgoingleaving a place or a position oldof long duration; not new ago, agonegone by; or in the past ancientbelonging to times long past especially of the historical period before the fall of the Western Roman Empire bygone, bypast, departed, foregone, gonewell in the past; former chivalric, knightly, medievalcharacteristic of the time of chivalry and knighthood in the Middle Ages early, former, otherbelonging to the distant past erstwhile, former, old, one-time, onetime, quondam, sometimebelonging to some prior time former, late, previous(used especially of persons) of the immediate past historic, historicalbelonging to the past; of what is important or famous in the past lastimmediately past late, recentof the immediate past or just previous to the present time oldenlong past otherrecently past prehistoric, prehistoricalbelonging to or existing in times before recorded history thenat a specific prior time ult, ultimoin or of the month preceding the present one present temporal sense; intermediate between past and future; now existing or happening or in consideration futureyet to be or coming incomingarriving at a place or position existingpresently existing immediateof the present time and place inst, instantin or of the present month latter-daybelonging to the present or recent times approaching, coming, forthcoming, upcomingof the relatively near future future dayyet to come earlyexpected in the near future emerging, risingcoming to maturity in storein readiness; awaiting prox, proximoin or of the next month after the present prospectiveof or concerned with or related to the future 2adj of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office Syn preceding, retiring outgoing leaving a place or a position 3n the time that has elapsed forget the past Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper past times, yesteryear future, futurity, hereafter, time to come the time yet to come yore time long past bygone, water under the bridgepast events to be put aside oldpast times (especially in the phrase `in days of old') historythe aggregate of past events time immemorial, time out of mindthe distant past beyond memory auld langsyne, good old days, langsyne, old timespast times remembered with nostalgia yesterdaythe recent past time the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past 4n a earlier period in someone's life (especially one that they have reason to keep secret) reporters dug into the candidate's past Hyper period, period of time, time period an amount of time 5n a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper past tense preterit, preterite a term formerly used to refer to the simple past tense tense a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time adv so as to pass a given point every hour a train goes past Syn by |
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