| 单词 | past |
| 释义 | past I. 1. a. < started working on this project ten years past > b. < the oily swell of the past storm — Norman Douglas > < had been sitting in the darkness for nearly an hour past — Lucien Price > < the past election > < the past few months > c. archaic < your letter of the 30th past — Earl of Chesterfield > 2. < in explanation and defense of his own past acts — W.C.Ford > < lived in some past world, two or three hundred years ago — R.W.Emerson > 3. 4. < past president > < past commander > < past medical director > II. 1. a. < my father was just past his first vote — Ben Riker > < past playing with dolls > b. < it was now past sunset — Lucien Price > < past the turn of the year — Atlantic > < a quarter past two > c. < is now past 60 > < is just past four > 2. a. < the entrance to the dining room is just past the elevators on your right — Hamilton Basso > b. < women pushed past arguing men to reach the counter — Stuart Cloete > < the railroad runs past the house > c. < standing by the monument and gazing down the grassy aisle past the heaps of crumpled chimney stones — Frederick Nebel > 3. obsolete < has not past three or four hairs on his chin — Shakespeare > 4. a. < has declined past all help — Sat. Eve. Post > < had a way with a horse that was past explaining — Gerald Beaumont > < a dilemma past solution — Jean Stafford > b. < wouldn't put it past him to play a trick like that > c. < has gone far past other writers in his experiments with language > • - past oneself III. 1. a. < men will turn to the past then, as we should now, chiefly to discover the ways of avoiding error — Harlow Shapley > b. < promised to atone for the past > 2. a. b. 3. a. < for ancient families with chequered pasts he had a romantic reverence — John Buchan > b. < his past caught up with him when an old prison friend recognized him > < a woman with a past > IV. 1. < every moment or so, the trains clank past — Hollis Alpert > < counted all eight porters coming past — D.L.Busk > 2. Scot & Irish < lay them past to rust — William Carleton > |
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