pastness
['pɑ:stnis]
n. 不复返; 不能重现
例句与用法：
It's ten past one.
现在是1点10分。
In the United States among women with jobs, eight out of ten drove a car to work, and eight percent took a vacation away from home during the past years.
在过去若干年，美国的职业妇女中，有80％是开汽车去上班的，有8％还离家去度过假。
Real incomes have gone up by 10% in the past year.
去年实际收入提高了10%.
If we wire into this job we shall be finished by half past ten.
如果我们抓紧干，10点半前就可以干完。
n.
不复返; 不能重现
pastness['pɑ:stnis; 'pæst-]n.1.■过时性；过去的状态；不复存在
pastness
名词 pastness:
the quality of being past
pastness
■He has indeed at one or another time argued both for and against most of the big changes in Turkey over the past thirty years.
30年来，在土耳其不同时期的大多数重大变革问题上，他确实发表过不少意见，或是赞同，或是反对。
■A family with a checkered past.
一个有着波折历史的家族
■A shadowy figure went past in the darkness.
一个模糊的身影从黑暗中闪过。
■A goods train trundled past.
一列货运列车隆隆地驶过。
■She threw up his past to him whenever they argued.
一发生争执她就向他提起他的过去
■An arrow whizzed past and stuck in a tree.
一支箭“飕”地一声飞过去，钉在一棵树上。
■An arrow went past his car, narrowly missing his head.
一支箭从他耳边掠过，差一点射中头部。
■Keep on past the church; the stadium is about half a mile further on.
一直向前走过了教堂，约莫半英里就是体育场。
■A company of guardsmen swung past.
一队卫兵整齐地跑过去。
■A bullet whistled past his head.
一颗子弹从他头顶上呼啸而过。
■A bullet whizzed past my ear.
一颗子弹嗖的一声从我耳边飞过。
■The past month has been a difficult one for him.
上个月他很困难。
■The anxieties of the past week had left her exhausted.
上星期把她愁得没精打采。
■Keep a low profile until the trouble over your activities is past.
不到影响你活动的麻烦事过去，你不要抛头露面。
■Don't rake up the past.
不要把过去的事都翻出来。
■Don't dwell on past failures.
不要老是想着过去的失败。
■The path or one of the set of paths, parallel to the reference edge on a data medium, associated with a single reading or writing component as the data medium moves past the component.
与数据媒体基准边并行的轨道或一组轨道中的一条，当数据媒体移动而经过单个读(或写)元件时，就与这种读(或写)元件相联系。
■It's no use grieving about past errors.
为过去的错误懊悔不已是无济于事的。
■The distant past; distant events.
久远的过去; 久远的往事
■Henry is a past master at bridge.
亨利是打桥牌的高手。
■The crowd surged past him.
人们从他身边涌过。
■The crowd pushed past (us).
人群从(我们)旁边挤了过去。
■In the past, letters from across the sea were like angels' visits.
从前，越洋而来的信件是稀罕的，有如天使来访。
■He toiled on till he was past eighty.
他一直辛苦工作直到年过八十。
■He bribed his way past the guard and escaped.
他买通看守而逃之夭夭了。
■He walked right past me without even acknowledging me.
他从我的身边走过，连个招呼也没打。
■He walked past me without even deigning to look at me.
他从我身旁走过，竟没有屈尊看我一眼。
■He seems unduly reticent on the subject of his past.
他似乎对他过去的事情讳莫如深。
■I'm past caring (ie I no longer care) what he does.
他做什麽我再也不管了。
■He has been sick for some time past.
他前些日子一直在生病。
■He hurried past me without stopping.
他匆忙从我身边走过，连停都没停。
■He brushed past me in the street.
他和我在街上擦肩而过。
■He sprinted past the other runners just before reaching the tape.
他在到达终点之前全速冲刺，超越了其他赛跑者。
■He's made a clean break with the past.
他完全改变了过去的生活方式。
■He dribbled (the ball) past the goalie to score.
他带球越过守门员射门得分。
■He smiled a superior smile as he drove past in his expensive new car.
他开着那辆豪华的新车驶过时，傲慢的微微一笑。
■My ears have been pounded on for the past hour; when is he going to switch off that damned drill?
他打算什么时候关掉收音机不听那该死的操练呀; 它已经轰响了几个小时了。
■He meditates on his past life.
他沉思着过去的生活。
■His pain is past now.
他的痛苦现在已经过去。
■He could remember events far back in the past.
他能记得很早以前的事情。
■He dodged past me.
他躲躲闪闪地从我旁边走过。
■He used to be able to cycle50 miles in a day, but he's past it now, I'm afraid.
他过去一天能骑50英里，不过现在恐怕不行了。
■He rose again from the dust of past defeats.
他过去因失败而蒙羞，现在东山再起了。
■His past is enveloped in a shroud of mystery.
他过去的经历笼罩着神秘气氛。
■The revelation of his scandalous past led to his resignation.
他那不光彩历史的揭露导致了他的辞职。
■In the past, the great powers would wage war against helpless little countries so as to gain their land.
以前，势力强大的国家常同弱小无助的国家发动战争以获得土地。
■Past experience has taught us that certain accomplishments are beyond attainment.
以往的经验告诉我们，某些事情我们是做不到的。
■The bookkeeper was entering up the sales for the past month.
会计正把上个月的销售帐目登入帐簿。
■But we shall always hope to find them strongly supporting their own freedom, and to remember that in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.
但我们始终希望看到他们坚强地维护自己的自由－－而且要记住，在历史上，凡愚蠢地狐假虎威者，终必葬身虎口。
■Can you slip past the open door without the teacher seeing you?
你可不可以从开着的门边溜过而不被老师看见？