| 释义 |
past /päst/ adjective- Bygone
- Elapsed
- Ended
- In time already passed
- Expressing action or being in time that has passed, preterite (grammar)
- Just before the present
- Past one's best
- Having served a term of office
noun- Time that has passed
- Things that have already happened
- (one's) early life or bygone career, esp if marked by tragedy or scandal
- The past tense
- A verb or verbal form in the past tense
preposition- After
- After the time of
- Beyond, in place, position, etc
- Beyond the possibility of
adverb- By
- Laid aside in store, for later use (Scot)
transitive verb and intransitive verb An unusual pap of pass ORIGIN: An old pap of pass past master noun - Someone who has held the office of master (eg among freemasons)
- Hence, someone thoroughly proficient (see also passed master under master)
past participle see under participle I, etc would not put it past him, etc (informal) I, etc regard him, etc as (esp morally) capable of (some action disapproved of) past it (informal) or past one's best Having decreased strength, ability, etc due to advancing age past praying for Beyond hope of redemption or recovery paste /pāst/ noun- Any soft plastic mass
- Dough for piecrust, etc
- A doughy sweet
- A smooth preparation of food suitable for spreading on bread
- A glue whose main ingredients are flour and water
- Any of various adhesives, eg one for hanging wallpaper
- Material for making pottery
- The basis of a person's character (figurative)
- A fine kind of glass for making artificial gems
adjective Of paste transitive verb- To fasten or cover with paste
- To insert text, etc copied or cut from somewhere else (computing)
- To thrash (informal)
- To defeat utterly (informal)
ORIGIN: OFr paste (Fr pâte), from LL pasta, from Gr pasta barley porridge (neuter pl of pastos sprinkled, salted), from passein to sprinkle pāstˈer noun - Someone who pastes
- A slip of gummed paper
pāstˈiness noun pāstˈing noun (slang) - A beating
- A thorough defeat
pāstˈy adjective - Like paste in texture
- (of a complexion) pale and unhealthy-looking
pasteˈboard noun - A stiff board made of sheets of paper pasted together
- A visiting card, playing card, or ticket (slang)
adjective - Of pasteboard
- Sham
- Trumpery
pasteˈ-down noun - The outer leaf of an endpaper that is pasted down on the inside cover of a book
- Formerly, a paper used to line the inside cover of a book
pasteˈ-eelˈ noun A nematoid worm found in paste pasteˈ-grain noun An imitation of morocco leather, used in binding books and in making fancy goods pasteˈ-up noun - A draft of a printed page consisting of text, artwork, photographs, etc pasted onto a sheet, for photographing or as a plan for a printing plate
- A collage
pastˈy-facedˈ adjective Having a pale and dull complexion |