| 词组 | past |
| 释义 | past Past is used as a noun or adjective to refer to a period of time before the present. He never discussed his past. I've spent most of the past eight years at sea. ◊ telling the time In British English, when you are telling the time, you use past to say how many minutes it is after a particular hour. It's ten past eleven. I went back to bed and slept until quarter past eight. American speakers usually say after. It's ten after eleven. I arrived back in my room around a quarter after twelve. For other ways of telling the time, see entry at ↑ ◊ going near something Past is also used as a preposition or adverb to say that someone goes near something when they are moving in a particular direction. He walked past Lock's hat shop. People ran past laughing. ◊ 'passed' You do not use past as the past tense or past participle of the verb 'pass'. The word you use is passed. We passed three cars. The Act was passed at the end of last year. |
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