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
  1. `I had finished' is an example of the past perfect
  Synonym:past perfect tensepluperfectpluperfect tense

双语例句

• 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
• 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。
• The Survey of the Priority of the Simple Past Tense over the Present Perfect Tense in Modern German
  现代德语过去时与现在完成时的优先性探讨
• My sports hernia is a thing of the past. I am in perfect shape and ready to give my all.
  我的疝气已经过去了，我的状态非常完美它准备给我一切。
• Change these verbs into past verbs and perfect verbs.
  写出下列动词的过去式及过去分词。
• They were all concerning about the past tense and the present perfect.
  那些练习题都是跟一般过去时和现在完成时有关的。
• 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。
• Among these tenses errors, simple past tense, present perfect and past perfect tense have a relative high error and mistaken use frequency.
  其中，一般过去时和现在完成时和过去完成时的误用和混用比率相对较高。
• Finally, a tentative conclusion will be drawn from the previous analysis: Rebecca is not a simple imitation of the past Gothic, but a perfect unity of form and content, and possesses high literary value.
  基于前几章的分析，本论文试图得出一个结论：《蝴蝶梦》不是对传统哥特的简单模仿，而达到了形式与内容的完美统一，具有极高的文学价值。
• We use the past perfect continuous tense to show that an action started in the past and continued up until another time in the past.
  我们用过去完成进行时态来形容一个在过去开始的行动，这个行动持续到过去的另一个时间。