past /pɑːst/ CET4 TEM4

• 1. 

  N-SING The past is the time before the present, and the things that have happened. 过去

  例：

  In the past, about a third of the babies born to women with diabetes died.

  在过去，患有糖尿病的妇女生的婴儿中大约有三分之一都死了。

• 2. 

  PHRASE If you accuse someone of living in the past, you mean that they think too much about the past or believe that things are the same as they were in the past. 活在过去 [表不满]

  例：

  What was the point in living in the past, thinking about what had or had not happened?

  活在过去有什么意义，思考已经发生的或者没有发生的事情？

• 3. 

  N-COUNT Your past consists of all the things that you have done or that have happened to you. 经历

  例：

  ...revelations about his past.

  …关于他的过往经历的揭露。

• 4. 

  ADJ Past events and things happened or existed before the present time. 以前的 [ADJ n]

  例：

  I knew from past experience that alternative therapies could help.

  我知道根据以前的经验其他的治疗方法可能有效。

  例：

  ...a return to the turbulence of past centuries.

  …回到过去几个中世纪的动荡。

• 5. 

  ADJ You use past to talk about a period of time that has just finished. For example, if you talk about the past five years, you mean the period of five years that has just finished. 刚过去的 [det ADJ n]

  例：

  Most stores have remained closed for the past three days.

  在刚过去的3天里大多数商店一直关着门。

• 6. 

  PREP You use past when you are stating a time that is thirty minutes or less after a particular hour. For example, if it is twenty past six, it is twenty minutes after six o'clock. (指钟点) 过 [num PREP num]

  例：

  It's ten past eleven.

  11:10了。

• 7. 

  ADV Past is also an adverb. 过了 [num ADV]

  例：

  I have my lunch at half past.

  我半点的时候吃午餐。

• 8. 

  PREP If it is past a particular time, it is later than that time. 晚于

  例：

  It was past midnight.

  过了午夜。

• 9. 

  PREP If you go past someone or something, you go near them and keep moving, so that they are then behind you. 经过

  例：

  I dashed past him and out of the door.

  我飞奔着经过他，跑出门外。

  例：

  A steady procession of people filed past the coffin.

  稳步前行的人们排成一行，经过灵柩。

• 10. 

  ADV Past is also an adverb. 经过

  例：

  An ambulance drove past.

  一辆救护车驶了过去。

• 11. 

  PREP If you look or point past a person or thing, you look or point at something behind them. 越过 [v PREP n]

  例：

  She stared past Christine at the bed.

  她越过克里斯蒂娜盯着那张床。

• 12. 

  PREP If something is past a place, it is on the other side of it. 在…另一侧 [v-link PREP n]

  例：

  Go north on I-15 to the exit just past Barstow.

  顺着I-15公路向北走，出口就在巴斯托的另一侧。

• 13. 

  PREP If someone or something is past a particular point or stage, they are no longer at that point or stage. 超过 (某一点或阶段)

  例：

  He was well past retirement age.

  他大大超过了退休年龄。