past
英 [pɑːst]
美 [pæst]
- n. 過去; 過去の出来事
- adj.
- prep.
- adv.
語源
英語の語源
- past
- past: [13] Past originated simply as a variant spelling of passed, the past participle of pass. The earliest unequivocal examples of it are as a preposition, but its adjectival use followed in the 14th century, and by the 16th century it was being employed as a noun too (the past).
=> pass - past (adj.)
- c. 1300, "done with, over," from past participle of passen "go by" (see pass (v.)). Past participle is recorded from 1798; past tense from 1813.
- past (n.)
- "times gone by," 1580s, from past (adj.).
例文
- 1. I must have driven past that place thousands of times.
- 私は何千回も車でそこを通らなければなりません。
- 2.When Myra told Karp she 'd expose his past ,he blew up.
- マイラがカープに彼の過去をすべてさらけ出すと言った時、カープは大いに光った。
- 3.They had almost reached the boat when a figure shot past them.
- 彼らが船のそばに着く間もなく、人影が彼らのそばを駆け抜けた。
- 4.In the past he dallied with actresses and lady novelists.
- 彼は過去に多くの女優や女性小説家といちゃついたことがある。
- 5.Go north on I-15 to the exit just past Barstow.
- は15番州間道路に沿って北へ進み、バストを過ぎると出口から出る。/
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