往事

往事 wǎngshì in a sentence

Past events

Full dictionary entry HSK 6 4 sentences

往事 (wǎngshì) means Past events. Below are 4 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.

Dictionary examples

往事 就让它过去吧。

Wǎngshì jiù ràng tā guòqù ba.

Let the past be the past.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 往事

这张照片让他想起了 往事 。

Zhè zhāng zhàopiàn ràng tā xiǎngqǐ le wǎngshì.

This photograph brought back the past to him.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 往事

时间埋葬了那段 往事 。

Shíjiān máizàng le nà duàn wǎngshì.

Time buried that episode of the past.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 埋葬

他抚摸着那本旧书,想起了很多 往事 。

Tā fǔmōzhe nà běn jiù shū, xiǎngqǐ le hěn duō wǎngshì.

Stroking that old book, he remembered a great deal of the past.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 抚摸

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How is 往事 used in a sentence?

This page shows 4 sentences using 往事 (wǎngshì, "Past events"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.

Are these sentences machine generated?

No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.

Is 往事 an HSK word?

Yes — 往事 is on the official HSK 6 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 6 page.

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