past tense
n.
过去式；
英英释义
past tense
n.a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past
同义词：past
双语例句
When asked about her past, AERIE becomes silent for a time, obviously saddened by the memory.
当被问起她的过去时，艾黎沉默了好一阵子，显然是为过去的回忆感到伤感。
IMOEN chuckles when you ask her about her past, assuming you are just trying to keep her mind on happier times and places.
当你问及她的过去时，爱蒙咯咯笑了起来，以为你是在尝试让她回忆起过去快乐的时光与场景。
权威例句
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1. It was as though Corinne was already dead: they were speaking of her in the past tense.
就好像科琳已经死了似的：他们当时在用过去时态谈起她。
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2. The past tense of 'take' is 'took'.
take的过去式是took。
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3. You have to use the past tense.
要使用过去时。
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4. Do you know how to form the past tense?
你知道怎样构成过去时吗？
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5. 'I have eaten' is the present perfect tense of the verb 'to eat', 'I had eaten' is the past perfect and 'I will have eaten' is the future perfect.
Ihave eaten是动词eat的现在完成时；Ihad eaten是过去完成时；Iwill have eaten是将来完成时。
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6. By the way, the questions were all written in the past tense.
顺便说一下，这些问题都是用过去时写的。
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7. Younger writers use more negative and past-tense words than older writers who use more positive and future-tense words.
年轻作家使用更多的否定式和过去式词汇，而年长的作家使用更多的肯定式和未来式词汇。
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8. There are records of aphasias that interfere with the use of the past tense.
还有许多记录，是关于受过去时态困扰的失语症病人的。
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9. If you want to talk about work you did in the past, use the past tense, e.g.
如果你想谈论你过去做什么工作，用过去时态。
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10. It was a kind of love letter, you see: it just happened to be framed exclusively in the past tense.
那是一封情书，你瞧：它只是恰巧用了过去时专门限定罢了。
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11. Chinese also has no past tense;
汉语中也没有过去时态；
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12. If you are talking about something that is completely in the past, you use the Past Tense (sometimes called the Imperfect), e.g.
如果所谈论的事情完全发生在过去，则用过去时态(有时也叫做未完成时态)，例如：I used to live in Seattle /我过去住在西雅图。
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13. The past tense of say.
"say"的过去时。
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14. The past tense of eat.
“eat ”的过去时。
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15. Then I'll throw away my pack of cigarettes (this should be in past-tense as I don't smoke anymore, but I'm too lazy to go back and change the tense).
然后我就把我的烟都扔了(这里其实应该用过去时，因为我现在已经不吸烟了。但是我实在是太懒了，不愿意回去修改时态)。
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16. Who talked to the child, how long, how often, how many different words were said and how many total words were said. How many past-tense verbs and in what circumstances.
谁跟小孩交谈，多久，多频繁，用了多少不同的字词，总共使用的词汇是多少，使用多少过去时态的动词，是用在什么语境下使用。
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17. They are simply testing whether you can use the past tense correctly!
他其实是在测试你是否会运用过去式回答！
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18. Never-theless, it seems right to speak of incandescent bulbs in the past tense.
不过，说白炽灯泡已经处于过去时，似乎是对的。
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19. "It doesn't always feel like the past tense," Mills says. "The records are still there, the music is still there, we're still here — we just won't be recording and touring together anymore.
“我觉得这一切并没有成为过去式，”米尔斯说，“我们会继续发唱片，继续做音乐，我们一直在这里，只不过我们不再一起发片巡演而已。”
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20. Use the active rather than the passive voice, and the present tense unless past tense is necessary.
使用主动语态和现在时，而非被动语态和过去时。
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21. Note that Paul used the past tense"Apollos watered".
注意到保罗在这里使用的是过去时态：“亚波罗浇灌了。”
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22. Remember to use the past tense if you ask someone about how their day was, e.g.
记住如果你问某人的一天过得如何用过去时态，例如：Howwas your visit to。
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23. You said love in the past tense.
歌词大意：你说爱用过去时态。
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24. B. Fill in the blanks with the past perfect or simple past tense of the verbs in brackets.
试用括号里动词的过去完成时态或一般过去时态来填充空格。
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25. She studied fifteen verbs about their past tense and past participle this afternoon.
今天下午，她学习了十五个动词以及它们的过去式和过去分词。
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26. That means I spent all of my money very quickly. Blew is the past tense for blow.
噢，“blow money on something”就是为了做某件事很快把口袋里的钱花光了。
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27. Describe experimental results uniformly in the past tense.
描述实验结果一律要用过去时态。
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28. Divorce: The past tense of marriage.
离婚：过去婚姻的紧张。
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29. Divorce: The past tense of marriage.
离婚：过去婚姻的紧张。
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