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ago    音标拼音: [əg'o]
ad. 以前,…前

以前,…前

ago
adv 1: in the past; "long ago"; "sixty years ago my grandfather
came to the U.S."
adj 1: gone by; or in the past; "two years ago"; "`agone' is an
archaic word for `ago'" [synonym: {ago}, {agone}]

Ago \A*go"\, a. & adv. [OE. ago, agon, p. p. of agon to go away,
pass by, AS. [=a]g[=a]n to pass away; [=a]- (cf. Goth. us-,
Ger. er-, orig. meaning out) g[=a]n to go. See {Go}.]
Past; gone by; since; as, ten years ago; gone long ago.
[1913 Webster]

42 Moby Thesaurus words for "ago":
antiquated, antique, back, back when, backward, blown over, by,
bygone, bypast, dated, dead, dead and buried, deceased, defunct,
departed, elapsed, expired, extinct, finished, forgotten, gone,
gone by, gone glimmering, gone-by, has-been, into the past,
irrecoverable, lapsed, no more, obsolete, over, passe, passed,
passed away, past, reminiscently, retroactively, retrospectively,
run out, since, vanished, wound up

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