柯林斯詞典preterite (also preterit) [美國(guó)英語(yǔ)] 1. N a tense of verbs used to relate past action, formed in English by inflection of the verb, as jumped, swam 過(guò)去時(shí)2. ADJ denoting this tense 過(guò)去時(shí)的 返回 preterite