past perfect
英 [pɑːst ˈpɜːfɪkt]
美 [pæst ˈpɜːrfɪkt]
n. 过去完成时; 过去完成式
牛津词典
noun
- 过去完成时； 过去完成式
the form of a verb that expresses an action completed before a particular point in the past, formed in English with had and the past participle
柯林斯词典
- 过去完成时
In grammar, thepast perfecttenses of a verb are the ones used to talk about things that happened before a specific time. The simple past perfect tense uses 'had' and the past participle of the verb, as in 'She had seen him before'. It is sometimes called thepluperfect.
英英释义
noun
- a perfective tense used to express action completed in the past
- `I had finished' is an example of the past perfect
双语例句
- Past Tense, Perfect Aspect and Current Relevance
过去时、完成体与现时关联 - But how much does that past relationship affect our dream of our future perfect?
我们都有一段不完美的过去。但是过去真地会影响未来的实现吗？ - Past perfect tense falls into two types of configurations in discourse: target-configuration and source/ target configuration, respectively profiling resultant state and event process in accordance with context.
过去完成时在语篇中的应用有两种构形：靶域构形和源/靶域构形，根据语境分别突显结果状态和事件过程。 - In the past, the man of perfect practice was very confident in his grasping concepts, so he wasted no time to defend it.
从前的修行完备者，他对自己体会的概念信心十足，所以他从不会浪费时间和精力，去为自己的信念展开辩护。 - Normally, such sentences in the past perfect follow another sentence in the simple past tense, as in the following example.
一般来说，这种过去完成式的句子是紧接着另一个一般过去式的句子，看下面的例句。 - I like looking back because I am a liking-past person and I think the past life is always perfect and unforgetful.
我同样也是一个比较喜欢回忆的人，我常常想起过去的事情，因为它常常也能给我带来美好的感觉。 - A Semantic Study of the English Simple Past Tense and the Present Perfect
实话英语的时态一般过去时和现在完成体的语义研究 - There are three kinds of shapes of the tenses in the Utopia Novels of the later Qing Dynasty: the future past tense, the future perfect tense and the future continuous tense.
晚清的乌托邦小说在时间构形上通常表现为“将来过去时”、“将来完成时”和“将来进行时”等三种不同面相。 - America's founders were modern men who wanted a modern country that broke with its past to create a more perfect union.
美国的缔造者们是想要一个现代国家的现代人，他们打破过去创造一个更好的联盟。 - In English, past tense is more polite than perfect tense, and perfect tense is more polite than present tense;
英语中，使用过去时比完成时更有礼貌，使用完成时比现在时更礼貌；