从前the past

以往的past

• 光荣的过去

  glorious past

• 想想过去

  think of the past

• 已成过去

  already a thing of the past

• 过去的工作只是一个开端。

  Past efforts are only a beginning.

• 在过去的沙漠上出现了良田。

  Fertile fields have appeared in what was formerly desert.

• 过去我在这儿住过。

  I used to live here.