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 room had the elegance of a bygone era.
  这个房间有着旧时代的优雅。
• 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。
• 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。
• Empires established in bygone centuries.
  在过去的漫长岁月中建立起来的帝国。
• His talk was evocative of the bygone days.
  他的讲话唤起了对往昔岁月的回忆。
• He was more drawn to the literature of bygone Europe than to that of his own region.
  他更倾心于往昔的欧洲文学，而忽视了本土文学。
• Midland gothic, the earlier of the city's two main styles, is already based on dreams of a bygone England and is ripe for heritage sightseeing.
  米德兰哥特式，该市的两个主要风格前，已经基于一个以往英格兰的梦想，是对文物旅游时机已经成熟。
• Downtown, neon treasures from a bygone era were stored in a dusty field called the Neon Boneyard.
  市中心，从过去时代的霓虹珍宝被储存在一个尘土飞扬的领域称为霓虹灯博内亚德。
• History is the mighty Tower of Experience, which Time has built amidst the endless fields of bygone ages.
  历史就是雄伟的经验之塔，是时间在过去时代的无边原野中构筑起来的。
• Bygone cloud and mist, lost foam.
  过眼的云烟，迷失的泡沫。