单词 Collocations with past 释义

Collocations withpast

These are words often used in combination withpast.

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ancient pastThe reconstruction was orchestrated through the collapsing of the sites' post-war present and its desired future on to its excavated and reimagined ancient past.From theCambridge English Corpuscolonial pastIn this milieu, the strategy of economic development was shaped by the colonial past and the nationalist present.From theCambridge English Corpusdistant pastMy eyes were glued to the drawing as if they were objects animating a dream of my distant past.From theCambridge English Corpusevolutionary pastThe view advanced here is that they identify a set of behavioral adaptations for social interaction favored in our evolutionary past by group selection.From theCambridge English Corpusforgotten pastI am wondering where that forgotten past has gone.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0geologic pastThe region is characterized by numerous marshes, brakes, sloughs, bayous, lakes, creeks, and rivers that in the geologic past were parts of the river bed.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.geological pastHow, why and when this has happened in the geological past is a matter of great interest.From theCambridge English Corpusglorious pastLike nationalists everywhere, they wrote histories that projected the present backward and connected it with a glorious past.From theCambridge English Corpusimperial pastBut the rhetoric is familiar enough, from an imperial past, and if this is not ideological, what is?From theCambridge English Corpusin the not-too-distant pastWhere 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.From theCambridge English Corpusprehistoric pastBut such a change of emphasis means letting go of some of the anchors thrown into the prehistoric past in the last thirty years.From theCambridge English Corpusrecent pastMost of the current and recent past literature of the history of science, however, fits this taxonomy.From theCambridge English Corpusshared pastTrained staff structured talk around eight cultural themes from a shared past.From theCambridge English Corpustrace of pastIf humans did not record in their cognitive states some trace of past experience, we could do something a thousand times without its becoming familiar.From theCambridge English Corpustragic pastHe was visited by daydreams of climbing partners (both extant and deceased) and family members from his very adventurous and occasionally tragic past.From theCambridge English Corpustroubled pastThe accession countries have a troubled past and have not always had the benefit of freedom of movement and speech.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0violent pastIt is imperative that transitional regimes do not conspire to 'forget' their violent past.From theCambridge English CorpusThese 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.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org/collocation/english/past##