in past years/centuries/ages
在过去的岁月 / 世纪 / 时代
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in times past
在过去
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The time for discussion is past.
讨论的时间已过。
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I haven't seen much of her in the past few weeks.
近几周来我很少见到她。
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The past month has been really busy at work.
上个月工作实在是忙。
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past events
以往的事件
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In the past, about a third of the babies born to women with diabetes were lost...
过去,患有糖尿病的女性生下的孩子中约有1/3夭折了。
He should learn from the mistakes of the past. We have been here before...
他应该从过去的错误中吸取教训。我们有过同样的经历。
...revelations about his past.
曝光他的过去
...Germany's recent past.
德国不久前的过去
I knew from past experience that alternative therapies could help...
根据过去的经验,我知道替代疗法可能有用。
...a return to the turbulence of past centuries...
回到过去几个世纪的动荡状态
Most shops have remained closed for the past three days.
过去3天大多数商店一直都没有营业。
...the momentous events of the past few days.
过去几天的重大事件
Many economists believe the worst of the economic downturn is past.
很多经济学家认为经济衰退最糟糕的时期已经过去了。
...images from years long past...
很多年以前的形象
It's ten past eleven...
现在是11点过10分。
I arrived at half past ten.
我10点半到的。
It was past midnight...
午夜已过。
It's past your bedtime.
你的就寝时间已经过了。
I dashed past him and out of the door...
我从他身边跑过,夺门而出。
A steady procession of people filed past the coffin...
人们排成一队,一个接一个地从灵柩旁走过。
She stared past Christine at the bed.
她的目光越过克里斯蒂娜盯着床。
Go north on I-15 to the exit just past Barstow...
沿着15号州际公路一直向北,一过巴斯托就从出口驶出。
Just past the Barlby roundabout there's temporary traffic lights.
在刚过巴尔比环岛的地方,有一个临时红绿灯。
He was well past retirement age...
他早过了退休年龄。
They felt that, at 69 or so, Mr Peters was past his prime.
他们觉得69岁左右的彼得斯先生已经风光不再了。
She was past caring about anything by then and just wanted the pain to end...
那时,她已经什么都不在乎了,只盼着疼痛能够止住。
Often by the time they do accept the truth they are past being able to put words to feelings.
往往等他们真正接受事实时,他们已无法用语言形容自己的感情了。
You know what she's like. I wouldn't put it past her to call the police and say I stole them.
你知道她是个什么样的人。要是她打电话报警说我偷了它们,一点儿也不奇怪。
Where are you in the cycle of renewal: Are you actively preserving the present, or selectively forgetting the past, or boldly creating the future? What advice would Leah give you to move you ahead on your journey? Once we're on the path of growth, we can continually move through the seasons of transformation and renewal.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文Viewing the past in high definition can make it very difficult to get over pain and regret.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文This means they often have to make a special effort to lay the past to rest.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文Some people are absorbed in the past but not open to new memories, but that's not the case for me.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文Product transitions take much less time now than in the past.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文People with HSAM often have to make efforts to avoid focusing on the past.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文Not everyone with a tendency to fantasise will develop HSAM, though, so Patihis suggests that something must have caused them to think so much about their past.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文Most people do not have clear memories of past events.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文For most of us, letting go of the safety and security of the past gives us great fear.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文Ask Nima Veiseh what he was doing for any day in the past 15 years, however, and he will give you the details of the weather, what he was wearing, or even what side of the train he was sitting on his journey to work.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文As much as we would like to cling on to our past, even the saddest moments can be washed away with time.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文And such research might even suggest ways for us all to relive our past with greater clarity.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文The surge in world grain prices in 2007 and 2008—and the threat they pose to food security—has a different, more troubling quality than the increases of the past.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文The report warns that 200 million poor workers are at risk of joining the ranks of people living on less than two dollars per day in the past three years.
出自-2016年6月听力原文And based on past experiences, it takes four to five years after economic recovery for unemployment to return to pre-crisis levels.
出自-2016年6月听力原文Sara Johnson acknowledges that the global economic benefit from a fall in oil prices today is likely lower than it was in the past.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文Over the past three decades, the industry has made some efforts to improve the quality of its offerings.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文Many of the reductions over the past 30 years have been achieved either by reducing the amount of sugar, salt or fat in a product, or by finding an alternative ingredient.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文In the past, falling oil prices have given a boost to the world economy, but recent forecasts for global growth have been toned down, even as oil prices sink lower and lower.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文Cracker Jacks has been gamifying its snack food by putting a small prize inside for more than 100 years, he adds, and the turn-ofthe- century steel magnate Charles Schwab is said to have often come into his factory and written the number of tons of steel produced on the past shift on the factory floor, thus motivating the next shift of workers to beat the previous one.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文Saving money is becoming a thing of the past.
出自-2015年12月阅读原文Her past record might stand in her way to a new life.
出自-2015年12月阅读原文The number of British films being made has declined in the past few years, according to new figures.
出自-2015年12月听力原文If you think so, you're not alone, because energy independence has been the dream of American president for decades, and never more so than in the past few years, when the most recent oil price shock has been partly responsible for kicking off the great recession.
出自-2014年6月阅读原文Although Kodak anticipated the inevitable rise of digital photography, its corporate(企业的) culture was too rooted in the successes of the past for it to make the clean break necessary to fully embrace the future.
出自-2013年6月阅读原文They are deeply stuck in their glorious past
出自-2013年6月阅读原文For the past two months they haven't paid a cent.
出自-2013年6月阅读原文And that is what put Mr Jobs on the right side of history, as technological innovation (创新)has moved into consumer electronics over the past decade.
出自-2012年12月阅读原文Today, given the job losses of the past year, fewer unhappy couples will risk starting separate households, Furthermore, the housing market meltdown will make it more difficult for them to finance their separations by selling their homes.
出自-2012年6月阅读原文Size isn't everything, but it does matter, and the past decade has seen a noticeable counter trend toward smaller schools
出自-2012年6月阅读原文The past 15 years or so have been a noticeable period of improvement for food in England," the English chef says, citing the trend in British cuisine for better ingredients, preparation and cooking methods, and more appealing presentation.
出自-2011年6月阅读原文In the approximately 20 deep-sea crashes over the past 30 years, only one plane's black boxes were never recovered.
出自-2010年6月阅读原文Sure, in the past electric vehicles have their problems, namely, a limited driving range, and very few recharging points, which limited their use.
出自-2013年6月听力原文Americans today have different eating habits than they had in the past.
出自-2012年12月听力原文He is soon going to have an evaluation interview with his supervisor and the personnel director to discuss the work he has done in the past year.
出自-2011年12月听力原文Chris has made several changes for his Division in the past year
出自-2011年12月听力原文But if you know about past values, it helps you to understand the present and many of the older values are still strong today.
出自-2011年12月听力原文A search is now under way to confirm the suspected existence of particles of matter that move at a speed greater than light, and therefore, might serve as our passports to the past.
出自-2011年6月听力原文It has gone up 25% in the past decade.
出自-2010年6月听力原文"To me, neon represents memories of the past," says photographer Sharon Blance, whose series Hong Kong Neon celebrates the city's famous signs.
2018年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section AA new batch of young women—members of the so-called millennial (千禧的) generation—has been entering the workforce for the past decade.
2018年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section CAre you actively preserving the present, or selectively forgetting the past, or boldly creating the future?
2017年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section BCracker Jacks has been "gamifying" its snack food by putting a small prize inside for more than 100 years, he adds, and the turn-of-the-century steel magnate (巨头 Charles Schwab is said to have often come into his factory and written the number of tons of
2016年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section BFor the past several decades, it seems there's been a general consensus on how to get ahead in America: Get a college education, find a reliable job, and buy your own home.
2017年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section CHe says demand has boomed in the past couple of years.
2019年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section BHowever, Dr Mehmood Khan,chief scientific officer, said the company had doubled research and development spending in the past five years and was "committed to sustaining investment", adding that companies cannot cost-cut their way to increasing sales.
2018年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section CIn the past we had to have a taste trade-off.
2018年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section CIndoor pollution, which includes sources like home heating and cooking, has remained constant over the past several decades despite advances in the area.
2018年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section Alions have disappeared from much of Africa, but for the past few years scientists have wondered if the big cats were hanging on in remote parts of Sudan and Ethiopia.
2017年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section AOn the other side are parents like Mike jia, one of the thousands of Asian-American professionals who have moved to the district in the past decade,who said Aderhold's reforms would amount to a "dumbing down,"of his children's education.
2018年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section BOn the other side are parents like Mike Jia, one of the thousands of Asian-American professionals who have moved to the district in the past decade.
2018年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section BSo Jude reached out to Peter Houde, a professor at new Mexico State University who had experience with the same type of fossil in the past.
2019年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section CThe center of American automobile innovation has in the past decade moved 2, 000 miles away.
2019年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section Aviewing the past in high definition can make it very difficult to get over pain and regret.
2017年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section BSome socioeconomic differences in child rearing have shrunk in the past ten years.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文Of families earning more than $75,000 a year, 84% say their children have participated in organized sports over the past year, 64% have done volunteer work and 62% have taken lessons in music, dance or art.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文In the past few years, MathCounts added two new middle school programs to try to diversify its participant pool—the National Math Club and the Math Video Challenge.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文In the past decade, even as income inequality has grown, some of the socioeconomic differences in parenting, like reading to children and going to libraries, have narrowed.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文In fact, in line with past experience, capital expenditure in the oil sector has dropped sharply in many producing countries, including the United States.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文American parents want similar things for their children, the Pew report and past research have found: for them to be healthy and happy, honest and ethical, caring and compassionate.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文In the past, health experts warned us that the day would come in which it would become very difficult to provide medical care for even common problems such as lung infection or severe sour throat.
出自-2017年6月听力原文Within just the past five years, I have noticed parents returning to a belief that teenagers need the guidance of elders rather than the liberal, anything goes mode of child-rearing that became popular in the second half of the 20th century.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文In the past, the young have eagerly participated in national service and civic affairs, often with lots of energy and idealism.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文How much is today's spirit of harmony a change from our more turbulent past? A mere generation ago, parentchild relations were described as the generation gap.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文And perhaps parents are acting more like parents than in the recent past.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文In just the past few weeks, the world has witnessed the destructive power of earthquakes in Indonesia, typhoons in the Philippines, and the destructive sea waves that struck Samoa and neighboring islands.
出自-2016年6月听力原文find digital devices simply indispensablecommunicate primarily by mobile phonelight their homes with stored solar energydistribute power with wires and wooden polesbenefit their business transmit power faster promote innovationencourage competitionIt might become a thing of the past.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文Even the technology press conferences, which have been high-profile in the past and reached a level of drama and theatrics fitting for a Las Vegas stage, have a different bent to them.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文In the past few months, I’ve been travelling for weeks at a time with only one suitcase of clothes.
出自-2016年12月听力原文Devils Tower is a relic of the past.
出自-2016年12月听力原文Professor of Sociology at WashingtonUniversity, has written numerous articles and books on the issues facing older Americans in our graying society for the past 15 years.
出自-2015年12月听力原文And I was up well past midnight.
2018年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section ABut over the past few decades a unique class of satellites has been created that fits the bill: CubeSats.
2019年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section BElectronics giants like Best Buy and Samsung have provided e-waste take-back programs over the past few years, which aim to refurbish (翻新) old electronic components and parts into new products.
2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section BEven the technology press conferences, which have been high-profile in the past and reached a level of drama and theatrics fitting for a Las Vegas stage, have a different bent to them.
2016年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section BHow much is today's spirit of harmony a change from our more turbulent past?
2016年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section BI want to tell you about the past, present and future of the human population.
2017年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section CIf you are walking past a pizza restaurant at lunchtime, your emotions and feelings probably will be stronger than your knowledge that pizza may not be the best food for your health.
2016年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section AIn part, the authors wrote in HBR, this pattern may have to do with the way work itself has changed over the past several decades.
2017年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section CIn response to past critics, Twenge and her co-researchers stress they are not trying to prove that the use of digital devices reduces young people's well-being.
2019年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section BIn the past 12 months, Nigeria has suffered from a shrinking economy, a sliding currency, and a prolonged fuel shortage.
2017年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section AIn the past few months, I've been travelling for weeks at a time with only one suitcase of clothes.
2016年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section CIn the past few years, Math Counts added two new middle school programs to try to diversify its participant pool—the National Math Club and the Math video Challenge.
2017年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section BIn the past, scientists often worked alone.
2019年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section CIt studies these populations, in the past, present and future, using quantitative data and mathematical models as tools of analysis.
2017年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section CMy grandfather spoke of his greatest fear, that of leaving the only home they had known for the past 60 years.
2015年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section COver the past few years, we have made dramatic breakthroughs.
2018年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section CResearchers in psychology, a field rocked by findings of irreproducibility in the past few years, have been especially vocal supporters of the drive for more-open science.
2017年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section BSatellite observations and submarine surveys over the past few years had shown less ice in the polar region, but the recent measurements show the loss is more pronounced than previously thought.
2016年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section CSenator Hokkons Baules, lead sponsor of the Palau National Marine Sanctuary Act, said the sanctuary will "help build a secure future for the Palauan people by honoring the conservation traditions of our past".
2017年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section AStaff from the Norwegian government have carried out conservation work on 10 of the churches over the past two years.
2019年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section CThe Amish are often 33 perceived by other Americans to be relics of the past who live a simple, inflexible life dedicated to inconvenient out-dated customs.
2016年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section AThe fundamental limitation of machine learning is that it needs to learn from large volumes of past data.
2018年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section CThese buildings offer vital insight into Scandinavia's Viking past.
2019年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section CThis is opposed to just price and performance they were concerned about in the past.
2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section BThis means minors enjoy material benefits and legal protections that would have been the envy of those living in the past.
2019年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section BWhereas local collaborations sometimes persist past the point of usefulness because of social or academic obligations, international ones can be cultivated and dropped more freely.
2019年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section Cwithin just the past five years, I have noticed parents returning to a belief that teenagers need the guidance of elders rather than the liberal, "anything goes" mode of child-rearing that became popular in the second half of the 20th century.
2016年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section BYou said you did the purchase here this past weekend?
2017年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section AA retired engineer, 76-year-old Wilson has been offering free rides to college students for the past eight years.
2019年高考英语北京卷 完形填空 原文According to the Overseas Development Institute Odi, however, just 12% of disaster-relief funding in the past two decades has gone on reducing risks in advance, rather than recovery and rebuilding afterwards.
2016年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文Actually I'm going to meet with professor smith at ten past two.
2016年高考英语全国卷2 听力 原文An express train was due to go past about thirty minutes later.
2016年高考英语浙江卷(10月) 阅读理解 阅读A 原文As we move away from an industrial-based economy to a knowledge-based one, office designers have come up with alternatives to the traditional work environments of the past.
2015年高考英语上海卷 选词填空 原文At some time in the past Yellowstone must have blown up with a violence far beyond the scale of anything known to humans.
2019年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文But during the past decade declining rainfall has allowed him to plant highly profitable crops.
2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文China's high-speed railways are growing from 9,000 to 25,000 kilometers in the past few years.
2018年高考英语北京卷 单项填空 原文Corn production has jumped nearly 125 percent over the past 25 years, while rice has increased only 7 percent.
2018年高考英语全国卷2 语法填空 原文For the past two years, Gordon's students have been studying ways to kill bacteria in zero gravity, and they think they're close to a solution.
2019年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读D 原文History is much more than the study of dusty old objects and events long past.
2019年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文In fact, I haven't got much sleep this past week, and I feel really tired.
2015年高考英语全国卷2 听力 原文In the past two decades, however, continued connection with and dependence on family,thanks to cellphones,email and social media, have increased significantly.
2016年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文Of the outstanding ladies listed below, who do you think was the most important woman of the past 100 years?
2016年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读A 原文Parents today are more protective than those in the past.
2015年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 选项Summer has not even started yet, but temperatures have reached 40 degrees centigrade in the past three days.
2017年高考英语江苏卷 听力 原文They think tradition means old things from the past.
2018年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读C 原文This is usually interpreted as a sign that today's parents are trying to manage their children's lives past the point where this behavior is appropriate.
2015年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文This nature of data makes the antitrust measures of the past less useful.
2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文This phenomenon is neither good nor bad; it is a fact of college life, today and in the past.
2015年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文Those words made me see clearly that when I had fallen short in the past, it was seldom because I had tried and failed.
2015年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文Trust is a learned behavior that we gain from past experiences.
2015年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 七选五 原文While the decline over the past decade is steep for teen readers, some data in the report shows that reading remains a big part of many children's lives.
2018年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读C 原文Over the past decade, thousands of patents have been granted for what are called business methods Amazon.
出自-2010年考研阅读原文Of all the changes that have taken place in English-language newspapers during the past quarter-century,perhaps the most far-reaching has been the inexorable decline in the scope and seriousness of their arts coverage.
出自-2010年考研阅读原文Rather than concluding that children make parents either happy or miserable, Senior suggests we need to redefine happiness: instead of thinking of it as something that can be measured by moment-to-moment joy, we should consider being happy as a past-tense condition.
出自-2011年考研阅读原文One reason for the persistence of this pyramid of production is that for the past half-century, much of the world's media culture has been defined by a single medium - television - and television is defined by downloading.
出自-2012年考研阅读原文As a condition of receiving state approval for the sale, the company agreed to seek permission from state regulators to operate past 2012.
出自-2012年考研阅读原文In the past couple of weeks a quarrel has illustrated the value to advertisers of such fine-grained information: Should advertisers assume that people are happy to be tracked and sent behavioural ads? Or should they have explicit permission?.
出自-2013年考研阅读原文As so often, the past holds the key to the future: we have now identified enough of the long-term patterns shaping the history of the planet, and our species, to make evidence-based forecasts about the situations in which our descendants will find themselves.
出自-2013年考研阅读原文It is long past time to make the program work.
出自-2017年考研阅读原文Hawaiian culture is not a relic of the past; it is a living culture undergoing a renaissance today.
出自-2017年考研阅读原文Optimists point out that technological upheaval has benefited workers in the past.
出自-2018年考研阅读原文As so often, the past holds the key to the future: we have now identified enough of the long-term patterns shaping the history of the planet, and our species, to make evidence-based forecasts about the situations in which our descendant will find themselv
2013年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section ⅡDespite graduating into the best economy in the past 50 years, Gen Zs know what an economic train wreck looks like.
2020年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section ⅡGrade inflation—the gradual increase in average GPAs grade—point averages over the past few decades—is often considered a product of a consumer era in higher education, in which students are treated like customers to be pleased.
2019年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section ⅡHappiness is not a point future and not a moment from the past, but a mindset that can be designed into the present.
2015年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section ⅡIf you are surrounded by problems and cannot stop thinking about the past, try to focus on the present moment.
2015年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section ⅡIn the past couple of weeks a quarrel has illustrated the value to advertisers of such fine-grained information: Should advertises assume that people are happy to be tracked and sent behavioural ads?
2013年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section ⅡIn the past, workers with average skills, doing an average job, could earn an average lifestyle.
2013年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section ⅡInstead, the digital services tax is part of a much larger trend, with countries over the past few years proposing or putting in place an alphabet soup of new international tax provisions.
2020年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section ⅡLast year, the Transportation Security Administration found in a secret check that undercover investigators were able to sneak weapons—both fake and real—past airport security nearly every time they tried.
2017年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section ⅡMany of us are weighed down by the past or anxious about the future.
2015年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section ⅡOf all the changes that have taken place in English-language newspapers during the past quarter-century, perhaps the most far-reaching has been the inexorable decline in the scope and seriousness of their arts coverage.
2010年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section ⅡOne reason for the persistence of this pyramid of production is that for the past half-century, much of the world's media culture has been defined by a single medium - television - and television is defined by downloading.
2012年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section ⅡOver the past decade, many companies had perfected the art of creating automatic behaviors — habits — among consumers.
2010年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section ⅡOver the past decade, the focus has been on climate change——how the warming of the Earth from greenhouse gases is leading to conditions that worsen fires.
2017年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section ⅡOver the past decade, thousands of patents have been granted for what are called business methods.
2010年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱsince his "action" is in the past, the photograph is its sole embodiment.
2014年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section ⅡThe cost of solar panels has dropped by 80 percent and the cost of wind turbines by close to one-third in the past eight years.
2018年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section ⅡTheir reactions may be a complex combination of instant reflexes, input from past driving experiences, and what their eyes and ears tell them in that moment.
2020年考研真题(英语一)翻译 Section ⅢThey cite past research by several authors to show that this is the gap that must be narrowed to close the achievement gap.
2015年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section ⅡThis could be no more than a passing literary craze, but it also points to a broader truth about how we now approach the past: less concerned with learning from forefathers and more interested in feeling their pain.
2012年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section ⅡThis was the tradition which revolutionized our appreciation of the past.
2012年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section ⅡYou may feel guilt over your past, but you are poisoning the present with the things and circumstances you cannot change.
2015年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ"forget the past"
"reporters dug into the candidate's past"
"time past"
"his youth is past"
"this past Thursday"
"the past year"
"a retiring member of the board"
"past participle"
"every hour a train goes past"