"past" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

past sustantivo

past + verbo
Kolokacji: 6
past comes • haunted by one's past • past makes • past includes • past influences • ...
verbo + past
Kolokacji: 41
know about one's past • forget the past • remember the past • reveal from the Welsh past • confront one's past • ...
adjetivo + past
Kolokacji: 125
recent past • distant past • glorious past • troubled past • ancient past • criminal past • long past • dark past • industrial past • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 35
(6) dark, secret, hidden
Kolokacji: 3
(10) mysterious, deep, personal
Kolokacji: 3
(13) rich, colorful, lurid
Kolokacji: 3
1. tragic past = tragiczna przeszłość tragic past
2. miserable past = przygnębiająca przeszłość miserable past
3. bitter past = gorzka przeszłość bitter past
4. unhappy past = nieszczęśliwa przeszłość unhappy past
5. tortured past = torturowana przeszłość tortured past
6. tormented past = dręczona przeszłość tormented past
  • With her openness and her optimism, she seems to suggest hope for a happier generation in Cambodia, a traumatized and frightened nation still trying to shed the skin of its tormented past.
  • Jason Bourne has a tormented past, which continues to influence him throughout his lifetime.
  • Val Kilmer makes a passable Caped Crusader, whose tormented past as Bruce Wayne never really emerges from under the flashy clutter of gimmicky props and consumer gimcrackery.
  • The story depicts Saidu (Sadiq Abu), a Nigerian immigrant living in Los Angeles who is forced to overcome sleepless nights of his tormented past in Africa.
  • Close by, the quiet and unassuming provincial capital town of Teruel hides a tormented past.
  • In which case, the whole transference theory is something we can all forget about; it's just a result of Freud's tormented past.
  • Mr. Zigler's extraordinary Broadway staging of Mr. Mamet's "Old Neighborhood" in 1997 probed, painfully, the subtleties and seething undercurrents of tormented pasts, never failing to sock across theatrical power.
  • Using a form of systems theory, the author argues that those with tormented familial pasts predictably repeat them.
  • Lincoln poses the problem as follows: "I found myself asking how a country with such a tormented past had brought into being such brilliant works of art."
  • But little does she know that her new owner, Jaguar, may hold the key to freeing her from her tormented past.
(15) American, German
Kolokacji: 2
(16) dim, shadowy
Kolokacji: 2
(17) shared, imperial, common
Kolokacji: 3
(18) sordid, notorious
Kolokacji: 2
(19) Soviet, revolutionary
Kolokacji: 2
(21) totalitarian, authoritarian
Kolokacji: 2
(22) colonial, simple, difficult
Kolokacji: 3
(25) geological, geologic
Kolokacji: 2
(26) evolutionary, ancestral
Kolokacji: 2
(27) cultural, human, immutable
Kolokacji: 3
(28) heroic, proud
Kolokacji: 2
(29) musical, pre-Islamic
Kolokacji: 2
(30) murky, misty
Kolokacji: 2
(32) classical, architectural
Kolokacji: 2
(33) idealized, idyllic, Unbroken
Kolokacji: 3
(34) military, militaristic
Kolokacji: 2
(35) prosperous, golden
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + past
Kolokacji: 16
about one's past • in the past • from the past • into the past • through one's past • ...

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