音标:[pɑ:st] ; 柯林斯词典等级:5 级; 牛津三千核心词汇;
n. 过去, 昔时, 往事, 早年经历, 过去时
a. 过去的, 结束的, 卸任的, 过去时的
prep. 越过, 晚于, 超越, 超出...的可能性(能力、范围等)
pass的过去分词
n. the time that has elapsed
n. a earlier period in someone's life (especially one that they have reason to keep secret)
n. a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past
a. earlier than the present time; no longer current
词型变化:名词复数形式 : pasts
考试类型:[中考/高考]
词性分布:
形容词42%
名词29%
介词21%
副词8%

past的用法和样例:

例句

用作介词(prep.)
  1. It is past my power.这是我力所不及的。
  2. It was past midnight when we got home.我们到家时已过半夜.
用作副词(adv.)
  1. He hurried past me without stopping.他匆忙从我身边走过,连停都没停。
  2. They walked past without stopping他们一步不停地走了过去。
  3. We drove past the house.我们开车经过那座房子。
用作形容词(adj.)
  1. His pain is past now.他的痛苦现在已经过去。

常见句型

用作形容词(adj.)
用作定语~+ n.
  1. For the past few days he has been ill.几天以来他一直生病。
  2. These things happened in the past years.这些事情都发生在过去的年代里。
  3. He is the past vice-president.他就是前任副总统。
用作表语S+be+~
  1. His prime is past.他的青春已经不复存在了。
  2. Winter is past.冬天已经过去了。
  3. The Second World War was past.第二次世界大战已经结束了。
用作名词(n.)
  1. The past is past.Let us look ahead.过去的事已成过去,让我们向前看吧。
  2. Here was the royal residences in the past.过去,这儿是王室住宅。
  3. We cannot undo the past.我们无法挽回过去的事。
用作介词(prep.)
  1. The time is ten minutes past eight.现在是8点10分。
  2. Summer is past its full.盛夏已过。
  3. Dancing was kept up till past two.舞会一直开到两点以后。
  4. The hospital is about a mile past the school.医院在离学校一英里以外的地方。
  5. The village is past the bus stop.公共汽车站过去一点就是村庄。
  6. They went past the department store.他们从百货公司的旁边经过。
  7. He set store on her past everything.他把她看得比什么都重。
  8. It is past my ability.这是我力所不及的。
  9. The hairs on his chin are not past five or six.他下巴上的毛最多也不过五六根。
  10. The child can't count past 20.这孩子不能数过20。
用作副词(adv.)
  1. A car ran past at full speed.一辆汽车以全速驶过。
  2. Children came running past.孩子们跑了过去。
  3. The years went past.岁月流逝。

常用短语

用作介词(prep.)
past it
    失去原有的效用〔精力〕too old to be effective

词汇搭配

用作形容词 (adj.)
~+名词
  • past experience过去的经验
  • past president前任会长〔校长〕
  • past success昔日的成功
名词+~
  • some time past前些时候
  • ten years past十年前
用作名词 (n.)
动词+~
  • bury〔forget〕 one's past忘掉〔记〕过去
  • know sb's past知道某人的老底
  • make past serve present古为今用
  • recall〔recapture〕 one's past回忆往事
  • regret one's past后悔昔日的行为
  • repair one's past弥补过去的缺陷
形容词+~
  • dark〔dead, remote, splendid〕 past黑暗〔不复存在,遥远,光辉〕的过去
  • recent past最近
  • unforgettable past难忘的往事
介词+~
  • during immediate past在最近
  • in past在过去,从前
  • facts of past以往的事实
  • man with long past阅历颇深的人
  • woman with past过去生活放荡的女人
用作副词 (adv.)
动词+~
  • go〔march, rush, walk〕 past行走〔行军,奔跑,步行〕经过

经典引文

  • Time was; Time is: but..lay hold on the Opportunity before the Time is past.

    出自:Gentleman's Magazine
  • Whatever..caused her past distress,..had no power to cloud her pleasure now.

    出自:A. Harding
  • We can remember some things clearly, others, perhaps less long past, not at all.

    出自:M. Warnock
  • The clock said five past ten.

    出自:G. Greene
  • You should have been..at home by eleven. But you didn't get in till quarter past.

    出自:R. Rendell
  • It was past two o'clock.

    出自:D. Abse
  • A fine handsome woman, only a little past her first youth.

    出自:J. Wain
  • The bowl of hyacinths, now a little past their best.

    出自:B. Pym
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