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

• 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；
• 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。
• Then summing up the gains and losses of our country over the past derivatives trading, a more perfect and efficient regulatory system would be to set up.
  再通过总结我国过去发展衍生交易的经验得失，这样将有助于建立较为完善和高效的监管体系。
• 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
• 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
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。