| 词汇 | collocation_english_past |
| 释义 | Collocations with pastThese are words often used in combination with past. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. ancient past The reconstruction was orchestrated through the collapsing of the sites' post-war present and its desired future on to its excavated and reimagined ancient past. colonial past In this milieu, the strategy of economic development was shaped by the colonial past and the nationalist present. distant past My eyes were glued to the drawing as if they were objects animating a dream of my distant past. evolutionary past The view advanced here is that they identify a set of behavioral adaptations for social interaction favored in our evolutionary past by group selection. forgotten past I am wondering where that forgotten past has gone. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 geologic past The region is characterized by numerous marshes, brakes, sloughs, bayous, lakes, creeks, and rivers that in the geologic past were parts of the river bed. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. geological past How, why and when this has happened in the geological past is a matter of great interest. glorious past Like nationalists everywhere, they wrote histories that projected the present backward and connected it with a glorious past. imperial past But the rhetoric is familiar enough, from an imperial past, and if this is not ideological, what is? in the not-too-distant past Where our data base consists of existing and well described languages, reconstructions of proto-languages in the not-too-distant past can be sizeable and sure. prehistoric past But such a change of emphasis means letting go of some of the anchors thrown into the prehistoric past in the last thirty years. recent past Most of the current and recent past literature of the history of science, however, fits this taxonomy. shared past Trained staff structured talk around eight cultural themes from a shared past. trace of past If humans did not record in their cognitive states some trace of past experience, we could do something a thousand times without its becoming familiar. tragic past He was visited by daydreams of climbing partners (both extant and deceased) and family members from his very adventurous and occasionally tragic past. troubled past The accession countries have a troubled past and have not always had the benefit of freedom of movement and speech. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 violent past It is imperative that transitional regimes do not conspire to 'forget' their violent past. 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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