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past TIME BEFOREHpB:st, $pAstn [U]the past the period before and until, but not including, the present time过去Evolution can successfully explain the past, but it can never predict the future.进化能够成功地解释过去，但永远不能预见未来。In the past, scientists had to rely on cutting up dead brains to find out about living ones.过去，科学家们不得不借助于切开死人的脑子来搞清活人的脑子是怎么回事。By winning the 1500 metres, he joins some of the great names of the past, including Coe, Ovett, Cram and Aouita.通过在1500 米比赛中获胜，他和过去的一些名人包括科、奥维特、克拉姆和艾乌依塔齐名。“过去是外国，他们在那儿做事情和我们不同”。(L. P. Hartley's book The Go-Between, 1953)If someone is said to have a past, it means that what they did in their life before now is kept secret and was probably considered immoral in some way.往事，经历（尤指秘密的、不可告人的丑史）He's a man with a past.他是一个有不便告人经历的男人。"The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there. " (beginning of L. P. Hartley's book The Go-Between, 1953)“过去是外国，他们在那儿做事情和我们不同”。(beginning of L. P. Hartley's book The Go-Between, 1953)
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