past master

英 [ˌpɑːst ˈmɑːstə(r)]

美 [ˌpæst ˈmæstər]

n.  老手; 内行; 专家

牛津词典

noun

• 老手；内行；专家
  a person who is very good at sth because they have a lot of experience in it
  1. She's a past master at getting what she wants.
     她可是个精明的人，想要什么就能得到什么。

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 能手；老手；行家
  If you are apast master atsomething, you are very skilful at it because you have had a lot of experience doing it.
  1. He was a past-master at manipulating the media for his own ends...
     他是操纵媒体为自己服务的老手。
  2. She is an adept rock-climber and a past master of the assault course.
     她擅长攀岩，是野战训练场上的老手。

英英释义

noun

• someone who has long and thorough experience in a given activity
• someone who was formerly a master

双语例句

• Jolie is a past master at not betraying her emotions on awards night-she also smiled gamely at the Golden Globes when Kate Winslet forgot her name and referred to her as "the other one".
  在当晚老练的茱莉善于掩饰自己的情绪，记得在金球奖上当KateWinslet忘记她的名字，而称“另一位”时，她也是嫣然一笑。
• I have been able, for these past two years, to deliver only half my load because this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your master's house.
  为这两年来只能让你挑回一半的水。因为我身上的这个裂缝，每次你回雇主家的路上，水都在漏，到家时就只剩下半罐了。
• Li of elegant green mountain water peace grain living is burning a group of the world or circle of wushu past master.
  我来翻译山青水秀的和平谷里住着一群武林高手。
• He is a past master at bridge.
  他可是个桥牌高手。
• Hold the growing prosperity unprecedentedly of Tang period dance accompanied by music, Pipa with outstanding artistic expression and past master their such as forest, masterpiece in music many grand occasion art, Push pipa art to one peak period of China's happy history.
  盛唐时期乐舞空前繁盛，琵琶艺术以其非凡的艺术表现力和高手如林、名曲如云的盛况，把琵琶艺术推上了中国乐史上的一个高峰期。
• At this the gatekeeper opened his eyes very wide, and ran to the king and said: "There's a young donkey sitting outside the gate, playing the lute like a past master."
  守门人吃惊地瞪大了眼睛，跑到国王那儿，报告说：“门外坐着一头小驴儿，琵琶弹得像音乐家一样好听。”
• In the past two years, the pla's mobile post-doctoral stations and doctor's or master's degree authorization centers have increased by large margins, the academic degree authorization system has been improved gradually, and the training scale has been enlarged substantially.
  近两年来，全军博士后流动站和博士、硕士学位授权点有了大幅度增加，学位授权体系逐步完善，培养规模有了较大增长。
• Postgraduate with major degree is one important part of postgraduate education, but in the past years, paying attention to management, looking down upon training, paying attention to mode, looking down upon quality were usual in the period of engineering Master training.
  专业学位研究生是研究生教育中重要的一方面，而在以往的工程硕士的培养过程中，经常会发生重管理、轻培养，重形式、轻质量的倾向。
• It is the summary of the past, the master of the current, and the choice of the future. 3.
  是对历史的总结、当前的把握、未来的选择。
• Melies was a past master of illusion long before the invention of the motion picture camera.
  梅里叶早在电影摄影机发明之前，就是资深的幻觉大师。