past的中文翻譯是什麼意思

N-SING過去；往昔

The past is the time before the present, and the things that have happened.

• In the past, about a third of the babies born to women with diabetes were lost...

  過去，患有糖尿病的女性生下的孩子中約有1/3夭折了。

• He should learn from the mistakes of the past. We have been here before...

  他應該從過去的錯誤中吸取教訓。我們有過同樣的經歷。

N-COUNT經歷；過去之事

Your past consists of all the things that you have done or that have happened to you.

• ...revelations about his past.

  曝光他的過去

• ...Germany's recent past.

  德國不久前的過去

ADJ過去的；以前的

Past events and things happened or existed before the present time.

• I knew from past experience that alternative therapies could help...

  根據過去的經驗，我知道替代療法可能有用。

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

  回到過去幾個世紀的動盪狀態

ADJ剛過去的

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.

• Most shops have remained closed for the past three days.

  過去3天大多數商店一直都沒有營業。

• ...the momentous events of the past few days.

  過去幾天的重大事件

ADJ過去了的；結束了的

If a situation is past, it has ended and no longer exists.

• Many economists believe the worst of the economic downturn is past.

  很多經濟學家認為經濟衰退最糟糕的時期已經過去了。

• ...images from years long past...

  很多年以前的形象

ADJ（動詞）過去時的

In grammar, the past tenses of a verb are the ones used to talk about things that happened at some time before the present. The simple past tense uses the past form of a verb, which for regular verbs ends in '-ed', as in 'They walked back to the car'.

PREP（鐘點）過（…分）

You use past when you are stating a time which 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.

• It's ten past eleven...

  現在是11點過10分。

• I arrived at half past ten.

  我10點半到的。

PREP在…之後；晚於

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

• It was past midnight...

  午夜已過。

• It's past your bedtime.

  你的就寢時間已經過了。

PREP經過

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

• I dashed past him and out of the door...

  我從他身邊跑過，奪門而出。

• A steady procession of people filed past the coffin...

  人們排成一隊，一個接一個地從靈柩旁走過。

PREP越過

If you look or point past a person or thing, you look or point at something behind them.

• She stared past Christine at the bed.

  她的目光越過克里斯蒂娜盯著床。

PREP在…的另一側

If something is past a place, it is on the other side of it.

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

  沿著15號州際公路一直向北，一過巴斯托就從出口駛出。

• Just past the Barlby roundabout there's temporary traffic lights.

  在剛過巴爾比環島的地方，有一個臨時紅綠燈。

PREP超過，超出（某一點或階段）

If someone or something is past a particular point or stage, they are no longer at that point or stage.

• He was well past retirement age...

  他早過了退休年齡。

• They felt that, at 69 or so, Mr Peters was past his prime.

  他們覺得69歲左右的彼得斯先生已經風光不再了。

PREP再也無法

If you are past doing something, you are no longer able to do it. For example, if you are past caring, you do not care about something any more because so many bad things have happened to you.

• She was past caring about anything by then and just wanted the pain to end...

  那時，她已經什麼都不在乎了，只盼著疼痛能夠止住。

• Often by the time they do accept the truth they are past being able to put words to feelings.

  往往等他們真正接受事實時，他們已無法用語言形容自己的感情了。

PHRASE（某人做某事）並不令人意外

If you say that you would not put it past someone to do something bad, you mean that you would not be surprised if they did it because you think their character is bad.

• You know what she's like. I wouldn't put it past her to call the police and say I stole them.

  你知道她是個什麼樣的人。要是她打電話報警說我偷了它們，一點兒也不奇怪。