.past 'master n[C] someone who is very skilled at doing something and has done it many times before = expertpast master at (doing) sth She's a past master at exploiting other people.
1. Earth movements in the past elevated great areas of the seabed. 地球过去的运动使海底大片地区隆起。
2. Elephants like to have one master just as dogs do, and are capable of a considerable degree of personal affection. 大象和狗一样,喜欢有一个专一的主人,而且会对主人产生相当深厚的私人感情。
3. Even in terms of biology, a clone would not be identical to the "master copy". 即使从生物学的角度看,克隆人也不会和"母本"一模一样。
4. Cars lumbered past Magdalen and the University Church. 汽车隆隆驶过马德林和大学教堂.
5. But the historian attempting to reconstruct the distant past is always faced with a difficult task. 但是,历史学家企图重现遥远的过去可是一项艰巨的任务,
6. But the station master was adamant: 但站长态度坚决,
7. But you mustn´t come home after a quarter past eleven. 但你不能超过11点1刻回家。
8. By 1900 unsafe hospitals and ignorant nurses were things of the past. 到1900年,不保险的医院与无知的护士都不存在了。
9. Banks stocked with the frozen sperm of geniuses already exist, but they haven't created a master race because few women are queuing up to get pregnant this way. 已经有了贮存天才的冷冻精子的精子库,但它们还没有生成一个优等族,原因是很少有妇女排队等候以这种方式怀孕。
10. When I think of the past, I feel happy. 一想起往事, 我就觉得快乐.