past（adj.）
past（n.）
约于1500年，“过去的时光，已经过去的时间”，来自 past（形容词）。1836年有“过去的生活、职业或历史”的意思。
The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet,
The only sweet thing that is not also fleet.
[Edward Thomas, from "Early one morning"]
过去是唯一散发出甜香的死物，
唯一不会逝去的甜物。
[爱德华·托马斯，《清晨早起》]
AMERICA does not repel the past, or what it has produced under its forms or amid other politics or the idea of castes or the old religions .... accepts the lesson with calmness ... is not so impatient as has been supposed that the slough still sticks to opinions and manners and literature while the life which served its requirements has passed into the new life of the new forms ... perceives that the corpse is slowly borne from the eating and sleeping rooms of the house ... perceives that it waits a little while in the door ... that it was fittest for its days ... that its action has descended to the stalwart and wellshaped heir who approaches ... and that he shall be fittest for his days. [Whitman, opening of the preface to "Leaves of Grass," 1855]
美国不排斥过去，或者在其他政治形式或种姓制度或旧宗教中所产生的东西……以平静的心态接受教训……并不像人们所认为的那样急切，认为观念、风俗和文学仍然沾染着腐朽，而为其服务的生活已经过渡到新形式的新生活中……意识到尸体正在缓缓地从房间里的餐厅和卧室里搬出去……意识到它在门口等待了一会儿……它最适合它的时代……它的行动已经传给了接近的健壮和优美的继承人……他将是他的时代最适合的人。[惠特曼，《草叶集》前言开篇，1855年]
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. [George Santayana, "The Life of Reason," 1905]
进步并非在于变革，而在于保留。当变革是绝对的时候，就没有存在可以改进，也没有方向可以指向可能的改进； 当经验不被保留时，如同野蛮人一样，婴儿期就是永恒的。那些不能记住过去的人注定要重蹈覆辙。[乔治·桑塔亚那，《理性的生命》，1905年]
[T]he past cannot be presented; we cannot know what we are not. [Thoreau]
[ past ]无法被 presented； 我们无法了解我们不是什么。[梭罗]
The past is never dead. It's not even past. [Faulkner, "Requiem for a Nun," 1950]
过去从未死去。它甚至没有过去。[福克纳，《为修女安魂曲》，1950年]
该词起源时间：约1500年