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bygone

/bahy-gawn, -gon/US // ˈbaɪˌgɔn, -ˌgɒn //UK // (ˈbaɪˌɡɒn) //

昔日的,逝去的,昔日,逝者如斯夫

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : past; gone by; earlier; former: The faded photograph brought memories of bygone days.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Usually bygones. that which is past: Let's not talk of bygones.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.in the past
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Examples

  • In a bygone era, visitors were allowed to feed them during ranger programs, but luckily management wised up and realized that, as the saying goes, a fed bear is a dead bear.

  • If the Rockets decide to turn seller at the trade deadline, they could nab a trove of assets in exchange for their vets, newcomers or remnants of the bygone Harden era.

  • A history of a gangster in a bygone time promises to be riveting, but there’s not enough there there to make this a book you can’t put down.

  • The schools’ marching bands played only on that screen and only in past appearances, meaning some clarinetist or other might have graduated without ever playing at a Rose Bowl, only to emerge from bygone to play at a Rose Bowl.

  • I deployed across the vast Pacific Ocean with a hundred other sailors on the USS Connecticut, a Seawolf-class ship engineered in the bygone Cold War era to be one of the fastest, quietest, and deepest-diving submersibles ever constructed.

  • Blues music is often treated like a museum piece, a relic from a bygone day, but this band will make you want to get up and dance.

  • The outsized personalities of that time are also of a bygone era.

  • In those bygone days before cell phones, they had to rely on an elaborate “buddy system,” a telephone tree, and pay phones.

  • Three years on, doesn't it already feel like a leftover from a bygone era?

  • And now, dig into this profile of Royko, a giant from a bygone time.

  • The "organ beater" of bygone days was invariably accompanied by the "organ pumper," often by several of them.

  • But he failed to impose upon the Colonel, and was even far from impressing him with this trumped-up knowledge of bygone days.

  • It is indeed in the fancy of Shakespeare that this bygone sweetness and irony seem the oftener to be kindled and awakened.

  • Greetings to you and other Speculatives of our date, long bygone, alas!

  • In the regions of the Midi, of bygone civilization, historical castles still standing are rare.