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

• When complements emerge in factual sentences, the sentences usually take on past tense or perfect aspect.
  当补语出现在表现实类句中时，该类句子呈现过去时或完成体。
• 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。
• 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；
• The target linguistic form was past perfect tense.
  目标语言形式为过去完成时。
• 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。
• 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？
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• We can use the past perfect tense to talk about an action that happened before another action in the past.
  我们可以用过去完成时态来谈论在过去某个时间之前完成的动作。