past master

英 [ˌpɑːst ˈmɑːstə(r)]

美 [ˌpæst ˈmæstər]

n.  老手; 内行; 专家

牛津词典

noun

• 老手；内行；专家
  a person who is very good at sth because they have a lot of experience in it
  1. She's a past master at getting what she wants.
     她可是个精明的人，想要什么就能得到什么。

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 能手；老手；行家
  If you are apast master atsomething, you are very skilful at it because you have had a lot of experience doing it.
  1. He was a past-master at manipulating the media for his own ends...
     他是操纵媒体为自己服务的老手。
  2. She is an adept rock-climber and a past master of the assault course.
     她擅长攀岩，是野战训练场上的老手。

英英释义

noun

• someone who has long and thorough experience in a given activity
• someone who was formerly a master

双语例句

• I have been able, for these past two years, to deliver only half my load because this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your master's house.
  为这两年来只能让你挑回一半的水。因为我身上的这个裂缝，每次你回雇主家的路上，水都在漏，到家时就只剩下半罐了。
• At this the gatekeeper opened his eyes very wide, and ran to the king and said: "There's a young donkey sitting outside the gate, playing the lute like a past master."
  守门人吃惊地瞪大了眼睛，跑到国王那儿，报告说：“门外坐着一头小驴儿，琵琶弹得像音乐家一样好听。”
• Postgraduate with major degree is one important part of postgraduate education, but in the past years, paying attention to management, looking down upon training, paying attention to mode, looking down upon quality were usual in the period of engineering Master training.
  专业学位研究生是研究生教育中重要的一方面，而在以往的工程硕士的培养过程中，经常会发生重管理、轻培养，重形式、轻质量的倾向。
• On the Past and the Future of the California Master Plan for Higher Education
  美国加州高等教育总规划的过去与未来&约翰·阿布雷·道格拉斯博士访谈录
• He is a past master at bridge.
  他可是个桥牌高手。
• She is an adept rock-climber and a past master of the assault course.
  她擅长攀岩，是野战训练场上的老手。
• Melies was a past master of illusion long before the invention of the motion picture camera.
  梅里叶早在电影摄影机发明之前，就是资深的幻觉大师。
• Hold the growing prosperity unprecedentedly of Tang period dance accompanied by music, Pipa with outstanding artistic expression and past master their such as forest, masterpiece in music many grand occasion art, Push pipa art to one peak period of China's happy history.
  盛唐时期乐舞空前繁盛，琵琶艺术以其非凡的艺术表现力和高手如林、名曲如云的盛况，把琵琶艺术推上了中国乐史上的一个高峰期。
• Yingying is that the Tibet antelope, his skill are agile, five rings being a track and field past master, representing Olympics are hit by one ring of yellow.
  妮妮是京燕，欢快矫捷的妮妮将在体操比赛中闪亮登场，她代表奥林匹克五环中绿色的一环。
• Why don't you ask Raymond how to fix it? He's past master at mending these machines.
  你为何不去问问雷蒙德怎样修理？他是修理这种机器的能手。