Past

(noun.) a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past.

(noun.) the time that has elapsed; 'forget the past'.

(noun.) a earlier period in someone's life (especially one that they have reason to keep secret); 'reporters dug into the candidate's past'.

(adj.) earlier than the present time; no longer current; 'time past'; 'his youth is past'; 'this past Thursday'; 'the past year' .

(adj.) of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office; 'a retiring member of the board' .

校对:路易斯

• WINKLE [The above is a manly and handsome acknowledgment of past misdemeanors. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Go back as far as you will into the vague past, there was always a Damascus. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Tell my servant to bring me up some hot water at half-past eight in the morning, and that I shall not want him any more to-night. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• I have noticed you go past our house, sir, several times in the course of the last week or so. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I'm sick of the beloved paSt.' 'Not so sick as I am of the accursed present,' he said. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• She had gone to bed at half-past ten. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• The first wave is past, and the argument is compelled to admit that men and women have common duties and pursuits. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Fields, trees, and hedges, seemed to rush past them with the velocity of a whirlwind, so rapid was the pace at which they tore along. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• The eastern armies did not so much defeat him as push past him, and Paris capitulated in March. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It's midnight, and past; and I'll have nob'dy staying up i' my house any longer. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Her mind seemed wholly taken up with reminiscences of past gaiety, and aspirations after dissipations to come. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• It was past four o'clock in the morning when I got home. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Nations with a glorious past as to bravery but with a poor armament have gone down suddenly before smaller forces armed with modern ordnance. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• There was no gratitude for affection past or present to make her better bear with its excesses to the others. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• And by reason of the employment of such vision in the past, Edison is now able to see quite clearly through the forest of difficulties after eliminating them one by one. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.

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