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

• Yingying is that the Tibet antelope, his skill are agile, five rings being a track and field past master, representing Olympics are hit by one ring of yellow.
  妮妮是京燕，欢快矫捷的妮妮将在体操比赛中闪亮登场，她代表奥林匹克五环中绿色的一环。
• 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。
• 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。
• Henry is a past master at bridge.
  亨利是打桥牌的高手。
• 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。
• 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。
• I just like to take this opportunity now to past on the Premier's best wishes to you, Master Wang, and to your followers.
  我只想借此机会，现在向您，王师尊和您的信仰者传上州长的最美好的祝福。
• On the Past and the Future of the California Master Plan for Higher Education
  美国加州高等教育总规划的过去与未来&约翰·阿布雷·道格拉斯博士访谈录
• Why don't you ask Raymond how to fix it? He's past master at mending these machines.
  你为何不去问问雷蒙德怎样修理？他是修理这种机器的能手。