| 词汇 | bygone |
| 释义 | bygone adjective[ before noun ] uk /ˈbaɪ.ɡɒn/ us /ˈbaɪ.ɡɑːn/ belonging to or happening in a past time: 过去的，以往的 bygone era The old photographs depict a bygone era when everyone wore a hat. I had reached the age, which was 21 in those bygone days, when I could legally claim my place as an adult. The book serves as a valuable compendium of the wit of a bygone age. The story is set in a bygone India. The fascination of the book lies not in its plot but in its recreation of a bygone world. He loves the atmosphere of the city, which evokes bygone Montmartre or Greenwich Village. In the past ago any moreidiom anymore back in the dayidiom back thenidiom clock departed dim flood many moons agoidiom mist moon more no longeridiom retro rewind the clockidiom sometime step the mists of timeidiom the status quo ante bygone noun[ plural ] uk /ˈbaɪ.ɡɒn/ us /ˈbaɪ.ɡɑːn/ let bygones be bygones used to tell someone that they should forget about unpleasant things that happened in the past, and especially to forgive and forget something bad that someone has done to them: （尤指既往不咎）过去的事就让它过去吧 Just let bygones be bygones and be friends again.过去的事就别再提了，重归于好吧。 bygone | American Dictionarybygone adjective[ not gradable ] us/ˈbɑɪˌɡɔn/ belonging to or happening in a past time: The empty factories are relics of a bygone era. Examples of bygonebygone Many enigmatic songs, unfathomable today, are the resonance of voices of bygone times. They both joined religious associations that re-created and reinforced the intimacy of an imagined but bygone village community. To achieve this end, they sometimes resorted to reviving bygone tribal identities or inventing new ones altogether. They were, in a sense, the swansong of the bygone era of violent resistance. However, what is at stake for these writers is more than nostalgia for bygone days of glory and power. The past colonizes the present so that bygone patterns and forms persistently resurface to deconstruct the very notion of the self and contemporaneity. The technology employed has long since passed into obscurity, and only a select and inevitably diminishing group of pioneers is now able to provide a conduit to this bygone era. Research on the verbal past offers not a transient object, as is the case in current fieldwork, but a bygone people's vanished talk in a lost-for-ever social context. The diffuse and atmospheric comfort of the small but bright gramophone sound corresponds to the humming gaslight and is not entirely foreign to the whistling teakettle of bygone literature. In other words, today's dinosaurs have to be treated very differently to those of bygone ages. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Blinded by their utopian dreams from a bygone era, the federalists fail completely to look at their own record. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English The pact had emphasized the urgent need to give priority to the sectors of the future - to stimulate their development and break the deadlock of a bygone era. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English They belong to a bygone age. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English I should like to ask him if he cannot for once let bygones he bygones. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is a genuine feeling in the district that bygones should be bygones. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of bygone These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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