指过去的某一段时间。
如果气候更适宜一些，庄稼会长得更好。(从句指过去，主句指现在)。
If the weather had been more favorable, the crop would be growing still better.
你应该记住过去未完成式是指过去进行的或重复的动作，你在过去正在做的事或习惯的事。
One thing you need to remember about the imperfect past tense—it is for activities that were ongoing or repeated; something you were doing in the past, or something you used to do.
资产，是指过去的交易、事项形成并由企业拥有或者控制的资源，该资源预期会给企业带来经济利益。
Assets mean the resources that are created from its transactions or events in the past and owned or controlled by the enterprise and can generate the anticipated economic benefits for it.
如果工作涉及的管理责任，是指过去的活动，以证明你的能力相处，与他人和工作的一部分，一个团队。
If the job involves management responsibilities, refer to past activities as proof of your ability to get along with others and to work as part of a team.
价格的惯性现象是指过去的赢（输）家组合持续成为赢（输）家组合，而反转现象是指过去的赢（输）家成为未来的输（赢）家。
Price Momentum means past winners (losers) continue to be winners (losers), and price contrarian means past winners (losers) become losers (winners) in the future.
事实上，在过去的七年里，黄金价格已经增长了三倍，远超同期水平的s&p 500指数。
In fact, gold has tripled in value over the last seven years, outperforming the S&P 500 for this same period of time.
书名里的“盒子”指一个可以看到过去和未来的神奇镜头。
The box of the title is a magical camera which can look into the past and the future.
这既指她最畅销单曲的标题，也指她在过去几年反复进出的地方。
Famously, the title of her best selling song as well as the place where she found herself in and out of over the past years.
学生，我指举例说他们可以使，其他人有权利，那是一个家庭在过去，能得到的权利。
Student: I mean as far as taking in like the idea that they can get the other rights that a family would have once we've obviously gotten past that.
这样，“在春节前扫尘”是指彻底清洁房屋扫除过去一年的厄运。
In this way, "sweeping the dust" before the Spring Festival means a thorough cleaning of houses to sweep away bad luck in the past year.
过去三年多以来，短期美国国债(指1 - 3年到期的债券)的收益率以美元来计高达18%。
Short-dated Treasury bonds (those with a maturity of one-to-three years) have returned a healthy 18% in dollar terms over the last three years.
美国和欧洲在过去60年里一直害怕俄国人(指前苏联和后来的俄罗斯联邦)，但那些恐惧主要是基于战争的危险。
America and Europe have been afraid of Russians alone for the past sixty years (meaning the USSR and, later, the Russian Federation) but those phobias were based on a risk of war.
这项技术充分地利用了在过去几十年内已经根深蒂固的现象(译者注：大概是指一感觉到已经令人根深蒂固的现象便会使人产生相对应的感受)。
The technology makes use of phenomena that have been well established for many decades.
我们都需要过去的经验——不管是我们的亲身经验还是从历史中学来的，它是我们前进的唯一指导。
We all need knowledge from the past—whether it comes from personal experience or from studying history. It is our only guide to the future.
“失败的国家”一词过去是指例如索马里这样不能管理自己国土的国家。
The term "failed states" used to mean countries like Somalia that couldn't govern their own territory.
一段恋情宣告结束，过去杂志中十指相扣，结婚钻戒，以及甜蜜亲吻的种种照片便瞬间成为过去。
With the sad end of a relationship, their photos hand-in-hand, diamond wedding rings or sweet kisses live on only in old magazines.
尽管这一指标在过去的几年里名声败坏，现在却正在卷土重来。
While this metric was seemingly discredited over the past few years, it is making a comeback.
过去它指的是人的天赋，而在现代商业中它已经成为才智(天生的或训练出来的)的同义词，尤其指创造性思维的能力。
It used to mean innate ability, but in modern business it has become a synonym for brainpower (both natural and trained) and especially the ability to think creatively.
“过去，术语‘嵌入式’指低水平的、功能有限的半导体，人们也无需关注它，”市场调研公司国际数据公司(IDC)的芯片专家谢恩·劳说。
"The term 'embedded' used to refer to a low-level, limited-function semiconductor and nobody needed to pay attention to it," said Shane Rau, a chip expert at the market research firm IDC.
指的好像是过去一直是这样的情况，自从第一拨带着高顶礼帽的董事们坐在第一张橡木桌子旁开始就是这样了。
The boardroom has been an arena where power is contested ever since the first top-hatted directors sat around the first burled oak table.
这些例子包括了搞垮尤科斯公司，后者过去曾是该国首屈一指的石油公司。
These have included the destruction of Yukos, once the country’s foremost oil firm.
过去一年里，富时100指数下跌16.5%，但比起欧洲其它主要指数，表现已算良好。
The FTSE 100 declined by 16.5% over the past year but was still a better performer than the other main European indices.
过去一年里，富时100指数下跌16.5%，但比起欧洲其它主要指数，表现已算良好。
The FTSE 100 declined by 16.5% over the past year but was still a better performer than the other main European indices.
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