bygone

英 [ˈbaɪɡɒn]

美 [ˈbaɪɡɔːn]

adj.  很久以前的; 以往的
n.  过去的（不愉快的）事; 往事

复数：bygones　

Collins.1 / BNC.19260 / COCA.17359

牛津词典

adj.

• 很久以前的；以往的
  happening or existing a long time ago
  1. a bygone age/era
     一个过去的时代 / 历史时期

柯林斯词典

• ADJ 过去已久的；很久以前的
  Bygonemeans happening or existing a very long time ago.
  1. The book recalls other memories of a bygone age.
     这本书追忆了一个久远时代的别样记忆。
  2. ...bygone generations.
     过去的几代人
• 让过去的事过去；冰释前嫌
  If two peoplelet bygones be bygones, they decide to forget about unpleasant things that have happened between them in the past.

英英释义

noun

• past events to be put aside
  1. let bygones be bygones
  Synonym:water under the bridge

adj

• well in the past
  1. bygone days
  2. dreams of foregone times
  3. sweet memories of gone summers
  4. relics of a departed era
  Synonym:bypastdepartedforegonegone

双语例句

• The additional newspapers allow readers to see how newspapers of bygone days covered historical events.
  此外，这些网络版的老报纸还能让读者看到报纸当年是如何报道那些历史事件的。
• In a bygone era, a concerned adult might have stopped to ask them where their mother was.
  以前，路过的大人也许会停下来问问她们的妈妈去哪儿了。
• The bygone days, like wisps of smoke, have been dispersed by gentle winds, and, like thin mists, have been evaporated by the rising sun. What traces have I left behind?
  过去的日子如轻烟，被微风吹散了，如薄雾，被初阳蒸融了；我留着些什么痕迹呢？
• Empires established in bygone centuries.
  在过去的漫长岁月中建立起来的帝国。
• He seated himself close to her, he gazed at her in silence, or he talked to her of years gone by, of her childhood, of the convent, of her little friends of those bygone days.
  他的生活都集中在这一刻里。他坐在她身旁，静静地望着她，或者和她谈谈过去的那些年，她的童年时期，她在修女院的情景和她那时的小朋友。
• Before twelve hours had passed a harvest atmosphere would be a bygone thing.
  十二个小时之后，一片收获的景象就会荡然无存了。
• I also have many bygone things to talk about.
  我也有很多往事要说。
• The book recalls other memories of a bygone age.
  这本书追忆了一个久远时代的别样记忆。
• We just see the nice memories of bygone.
  总会看到过去美好回忆。
• That haunting episode of bygone days was to her mother but a passing accident.
  对她母亲来说，她萦绕在心头的那件往事，只不过是一件烟消云散的偶然事件。