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adjectivenounprepositionadverb in past years/centuries/ages在过去的岁月／世纪／时代 in times past在过去 The time for discussion is past. 讨论的时间已过。 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。 past events以往的事件 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。 I haven’t seen much of her in the past few weeks. 近几周来我很少见到她。 In past years the industry received large subsidies. 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。 The book is a celebration of working class life in times past. The past week has been very busy. The reunion is for past and present students of the college. Theatre in past centuries was mass entertainment, but that is not the case today. These past months have been terribly stressful for everyone. I used to go there often in the past. 过去我常去那里。 the recent/distant past较近的／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。 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）。 stories from the distant past很久以前的故事 In the distant past this land was covered in forests. Archaeology provides us with tools for reconstructing the past. Don’t worry about it—it’s all in the past now. Few remnants remain of the city’s glorious past. He tried in vain to recapture his past. He was forced to confront his forgotten past. I admit that I have made mistakes in the past. In an effort to make a complete break with the past, she sold everything and went abroad. It all happened in the distant past. Many modern festivals can be traced back to an ancient past. Memories from the past came flooding back to him. Political parties cannot escape from their pasts any more than individuals can. The counselling helped Dan to put the past behind him. The old market is a living link with the past, unchanged for hundreds of years. The uncovering of the buried town gives us a unique glimpse of the past. These customs are a relic of the country’s colonial past. Those memories belong to the past and I don’t want to think about them. We’re going to have to stop living in the past and invest in new technology if the company is to survive. a new device that makes such problems a thing of the past at some time in her past events stretching back many years into the past ghosts from his past great artists of the past She didn’t tell them about her boyfriend’s criminal past. The country still suffers as a result of its colonial past. They say she has a ‘past’. 据说她有一段 “过去”（不名誉的秘史）。 We don’t know anything about his past. 我们对他的过去一无所知。 half past two两点半 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。 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！ 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。 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。 I called out to him as he ran past. 他跑过时，我大声喊他。 A week went past and nothing had changed. 一个星期过去了，情况毫无变化。 |