Significats de past event en anglès

Take, for the sake of definiteness, the remembering of a past event.

Was I picking up the dim vibrations left over from a past event?

The clearest instance of what I mean is recollection of a past event.

The remembering occurs now, and is therefore necessarily not identical with the past event.

You speak as though this is some past event!

What do we mean when we say that one past event is important and another insignificant?

In recollecting a past event we are contemplating no mere image, but the actual past event itself.

No past event has any intrinsic importance.

The classic mystery story is about a crime already committed, a past event the investigation has to reconstruct.

When we have made this distinction, we can say that the image "means" the past event.

No past event in my political life ever did, and no future one ever can, give me such pleasure.

The act of remembering occurs now, and has on this view a certain essential relation to the past event which it remembers.

Prospective memory slips (forgetting to do something) are as part of everyday memory failure as retrospective complaints (forgetting a past event).

There were moments when the recollection of some past event seemed to shade his countenance with a melancholy that rendered it still more affecting.

East of Hope, described as a "multi-racial soap opera," centers around two families divided by a past event and reconnected by blood.

Common sense will prevail when you realize you are faced only with a past event and someone- ahumanbeing-introuble at the time of passing.