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单词 ago
释义
ago
adverb
uk
/əˈɡəʊ/us
/əˈɡoʊ/
A2
back intimefrom thepresent:
以前，从前
Heleftthehouseover anhourago.他一个多小时前离开了这所房子。
Thedinosaursdiedout 65 millionyearsago.恐龙在6500万年前灭绝了。
Longago/Alongtimeago, therelivedagirlcalledCinderella.很久以前，有个叫灰姑娘的女孩。
More examples
  • Electricalgoodsarealmostdoublethepricethey were a fewyearsago.
  • "Where's mypen? It was on mydeskaminuteago."
  • Twelve thousandyearsago,ourancestorswereprimitivesavageslivingincaves.
  • We made thebookingthreemonthsago.
  • It allhappenedsolongago that it's just ablurto me now.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
In the past
  • any moreidiom
  • anymore
  • back in the dayidiom
  • back thenidiom
  • before
  • clock
  • departed
  • dim
  • flood
  • mist
  • moon
  • more
  • no longeridiom
  • non-current
  • rewind the clockidiom
  • sometime
  • step
  • step back (in time)idiom
  • the mists of timeidiom
  • the status quo ante
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Grammar

Ago
The adverb ago refers to a period of time that is completed and goes from a point in the past up to now. Ago follows expressions of time:…
(Definition ofagofrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

ago| American Dictionary

ago
adverb[only after n,not gradable]
us
/əˈɡoʊ/
back in the past; back intimefrom thepresent:
That was a fewyearsago.
Yourmothercalled about anhourago.
Sometimeago Ireadabookabout that.
Are you stillseeingVivian? No, westoppedseeingeach other alongtimeago.
(Definition ofagofrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofago

ago
There have been reports of some localised fumarole activity during the past 100 years, and a new lava flow broke out only 20 yearsago.
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Whilst the events described in this book took place several decadesago, they remain uncannily contemporary.
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It is interesting to note that the concept of natural selection as the sole force in maintaining polymorphisms went virtually unquestioned 15 yearsago.
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This goal seemed virtually unattainable not longago.
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Since their introduction over 10 yearsago, oral contraceptives have gained wide and ever-increasing acceptance as a satisfactory and relatively trouble-free means of fertility control.
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The rotation of political power to an opposition party more than three yearsagohas not ended the streaks of political corruption.
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A centuryago, just reaching it was the ardent dream of many explorers.
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The suggestion that such 'traditional' cultures and identities are fixed and static has lost currency longago.
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The showman explained that twenty yearsagohe collected five pounds a week on average, earning seven or eight shillings from each street performance.
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Increased subaerial volcanism and the rise of atmospheric oxygen 2.5 billion yearsago.
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We are certainly attacking more and more complex conditions, including those considered hopeless not very longago.
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The first humans arose about two million yearsago.
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Imagine a political scientist who fell asleep twenty-five yearsago.
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Some yearsagoit was difficult to properly evaluate an artistic movement that quite autonomously was in the process of development.
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In evolutionary terms, a century is of no significance - indeed we are genetically almost identical to our ancestors of 10 centuriesago.
From theCambridge English Corpus
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