past master

过去的主人,过去的大师,过去的师父,过去的主

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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- : a person who is thoroughly experienced or exceptionally skilled in a profession, art, etc.: a past master at chess.
- : a person who has held the office of master in a guild, lodge, etc.

nounexpert in a field

Synonyms

In their past calls for attacks on Western targets, AQAP has focused on putting bombs on planes, not revenge attacks.
In the middle of all of that past suffering and present-day conflict, this Cosby bomb was dropped.
I gotta say—I think this past year was pretty bad for music.
Many of those who have become cops in New York seem to have ceased to address such minor offenses over the past few days.
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Truth is a torch, but one of enormous size; so that we slink past it in rather a blinking fashion for fear it should burn us.
And with some expressions of mutual good-will and interest, master and man separated.
Within the past thirty years civilization has rapidly taken possession of this lovely region.
Without the former quality, knowledge of the past is uninstructive; without the latter, it is deceptive.
And I finished all with a brief historical account of affairs and events in England for about a hundred years past.