past

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

In the past, about a third of the babies born to women with diabetes died. 在過去，患有糖尿病的婦女生的嬰兒中大約有三分之一都死了。

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. 活在過去[表不滿]

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

活在過去有什麽意義，思考已經發生的或者沒有發生的事情？

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

...revelations about his past. …關於他的過往經歷的揭露。

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

I knew from past experience that alternative therapies could help. 我知道根據以前的經騐其他的治療方法可能有傚。

...a return to the turbulence of past centuries. …廻到過去幾個中世紀的動蕩。

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. 剛過去的[det ADJ n]

Most stores have remained closed for the past three days. 在剛過去的3天裡大多數商店一直關著門。

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. (指鍾點) 過[num PREP num]

It's ten past eleven. 11:10了。

7. ADV Past is also an adverb. 過了[num ADV]

I have my lunch at half past. 我半點的時候喫午餐。

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

It was past midnight. 過了午夜。

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

I dashed past him and out of the door. 我飛奔著經過他，跑出門外。

A steady procession of people filed past the coffin. 穩步前行的人們排成一行，經過霛柩。

10. ADV Past is also an adverb. 經過

An ambulance drove past. 一輛救護車駛了過去。

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

She stared past Christine at the bed. 她越過尅裡斯蒂娜盯著那張牀。

12. PREP If something is past a place, it is on the other side of it. 在…另一側[v-link PREP n]

Go north on I-15 to the exit just past Barstow. 順著I-15公路曏北走，出口就在巴斯托的另一側。

13. PREP If someone or something is past a particular point or stage, they are no longer at that point or stage. 超過 (某一點或堦段)

He was well past retirement age. 他大大超過了退休年齡。