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  • Derivatives : n  past-perfect ; n  past-participle
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Collins English-Chinese Dictionary

past [pɒːst]
  1. 1. preposition (in front of, beyond, later than) 过
    He walked past the hat shop.
    他走过了这家帽子店。
    The farm was just past the village.
    过了村庄就是农场。
    I think we must have gone past the turn.
    我想我们已经过了转弯处。
    It's long past bedtime.
    早过了就寝的时间了。
  2. 2. adverb to go/walk/drive past (by) 经/走/开过
  3. 3. adjective [+life, experience, government] (previous) 过去的
  4. 4. adjective [+week, month, year etc] 刚过去的
  5. 5. noun [c] the past 过去
  6. 6. noun (tense) 过去时
  7. 7. noun [of person, country] 过去
    he ran past me
    他从我身边跑过
    he's past forty
    他40多岁了
    it's past midnight
    过了午夜
    ten/(a) quarter past eight
    8点10/15分
    I'm past caring
    我已不在乎了
    to be past it
    [BRIT] [inf] [person, thing+] 老而无用了
    for the past few/3 days
    过去几/3天以来
    the past tense
    过去时
    in the past
    在过去
  8. 8. noun (in the past tense) 用过去时态

Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary

past [pæst] [pɑːst]
  1. 1. [rarely used] pass的过去分词
  2. 2. adjective 过去的；结束的
    his past troubles
    他的昔日苦恼
  3. 3. adjective 早先的；以往的
  4. 4. adjective 刚过去的
    the past week
    上周
  5. 5. adjective 前任的；曾任的
    a past chairman
    前任主席
  6. 6. adjective [grammar] 过去（时）的
  7. 7. noun 过去；昔日
  8. 8. noun 往事；经历；过去的生活（尤指秘密的、不可告人的经历）
    a woman with a past
    有不可告人经历的女人
  9. 9. noun [grammar] 过去时；动词的过去式
  10. 10. preposition （时间）过；晚于；较…为迟
  11. 11. preposition （空间、距离等）超过
    The office is on the main road just past the Lincoln Hotel.
    办公室就在那条主路上，过去林肯酒店就是。
    You past it, It was the building behind.
    你刚过去那栋楼就是，就在后面。
    He's past the age where he was just thinking about partying.
    他现在已经过了那个成天想着聚会的年龄了。
    She past that stage three months ago.
    三个月前她就已经过了那个阶段了。
  12. 12. preposition （数量、程度等）超过
  13. 13. preposition （程度、能力、限度、范围等）超过
    past belief
    不可思议
    He past the point between being intelligent and being a genius.
    他已经过了那个界定聪明和天才的临界点了。
  14. 14. adverb 过；超过；越过

Collins English-English Dictionary

past [pɑːst]
  1. 1. adj completed, finished, and no longer in existence
    past happiness
  2. 2. adj denoting or belonging to all or a segment of the time that has elapsed at the present moment
    the past history of the world
  3. 3. adj denoting a specific unit of time that immediately precedes the present one
    the past month
  4. 4. adj [prenominal] denoting a person who has held and relinquished an office or position; former
    a past president
  5. 5. adj [grammar] denoting any of various tenses of verbs that are used in describing actions, events, or states that have been begun or completed at the time of utterance - Compare aorist imperfect perfect
  6. 6. n the history, experience, or background of a nation, person, etc
    a soldier with a distinguished past
  7. 7. n an earlier period of someone's life, esp one that contains events kept secret or regarded as disreputable
  8. 8. n [grammar] a past tense
  9. 9. n a verb in a past tense
  10. 10. adv at a specified or unspecified time before the present; ago
    three years past
  11. 11. adv on or onwards
    I greeted him but he just walked past
  12. 12. prep beyond in time
    it's past midnight
  13. 13. prep beyond in place or position
    the library is past the church
  14. 14. prep moving beyond; in a direction that passes
    he walked past me
  15. 15. prep beyond or above the reach, limit, or scope of
    his foolishness is past comprehension
  16. 16. prep beyond or above in number or amount
    to count past ten
  17. 17. prep [Etymology] C14: from passed, past participle of pass
  18. 18. prep [Usage] The past participle of pass is sometimes wrongly spelt past: the time for recriminations has passed (not past)
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Examples

to base a guess on past experience
据过去经验来猜测 → base
the deep past
遥远的过去 → deep
He drilled the ball past the pitcher.
他使球越过投手直飞过去。 → drill
half past one
一点半 → half
to shed light on the past
对过去加以说明；使人了解过去 → light
a link with the past
与过去连接之物 → link
over the past ten years
过去的十年内 → over
his past troubles
他的昔日苦恼 → past
the past week
上周 → past
a past chairman
前任主席 → past
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