past

past /pɑ:st/
  • tính từ
    • (thuộc) quá khứ, đã qua, (thuộc) dĩ vãng
      • for the past few days: mấy ngày qua
      • his pain is past now: cơn đau của anh ấy đã qua rồi
    • (ngôn ngữ học) quá khứ
      • past tense: thói quá khứ
      • past participle: động tính từ quá khứ
  • danh từ
    • quá khứ, dĩ vãng; quá khứ không hay ho gì
    • (ngôn ngữ học) ((thường) the past) thời quá khứ
    • phó từ
      • qua
        • to walk past: đi qua
        • to run past: chạy qua
      • quá
        • the train is past due: xe lửa quá giờ rồi mà chưa đến
    • giới từ
      • quá, vượt, quá, hơn
        • it is past six: đã quá sáu giờ hơn
        • he is past fifty: ông ta đã hơn (ngoài) năm mươi
        • past endurance: vượt quá sự chịu đựng, không thể chịu đựng nổi
      • qua
        • to run past the house: chạy qua nhà

     quá khứ
  • past flood: lũ (đã xảy ra) trong quá khứ

  • past history of a system
     tiền sử của hệ thống
    past requirement
     nhu cầu trước đây
    past service cost
     giá sau dịch vụ
    welding past
     bột hàn

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    past

    Từ điển Collocation

    past noun

    1 time before the present

    ADJ. immediate, recent | ancient, (dim and) distant, remote Many modern festivals can be traced back to an ancient past. It all happened in the distant past.

    VERB + PAST cling to, live in We're going to have to stop living in the past and invest in new technology if the firm is to survive. | belong in/to Those memories belong to the past and I don't want to think about them.

    PREP. from the ~ Memories from the past came flooding back to him. | in the ~ I admit that I have made mistakes in the past. | into the ~ events stretching back many years into the past | of the ~ great artists of the past

    PHRASES be all in the past Don't worry about it?it's all in the past now. | a break with the past In an effort to make a complete break with the past, she sold everything and went abroad. | a glimpse of the past The uncovering of the buried town gives us a unique glimpse of the past. | a link with the past The old market is a living link with the past, unchanged for hundreds of years. | nostalgia for the past, a thing of the past a new device that makes such problems a thing of the past

    2 sb/sth's history

    ADJ. historic, historical | colourful, rich | chequered, murky, sordid | criminal | glorious, illustrious Few remnants remain of the city's glorious past. | cultural, political | ancestral, evolutionary | imperial, industrial

    VERB + PAST reflect on/upon | recapture trying in vain to recapture his past | erase, escape from, put behind you, wipe out Political parties cannot escape from their pasts any more than individuals can. The counselling helped Dan to put the past behind him.

    PREP. from your ~ ghosts from his past | in your ~ at some time in her past


    Từ điển WordNet

      n.

    • the time that has elapsed; past times, yesteryear, yore

      forget the past

    • a earlier period in someone's life (especially one that they have reason to keep secret)

      reporters dug into the candidate's past

    • a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past; past tense

      adj.

    • earlier than the present time; no longer current

      time past

      his youth is past

      this past Thursday

      the past year

    • of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office; past(a), preceding(a), retiring(a)

      a retiring member of the board

    • a verb tense or other construction referring to events or states that existed at some previous time

      past participle

      adv.

    • so as to pass a given point; by

      every hour a train goes past


    English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary

    pasts
    syn.: former over preceding previous

    ant.: future