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1. 历史
You can refer to the events of the past as history. You can also refer to the past events which concern a particular topic or place as its history.

2. 历史学;史学
History is a subject studied in schools, colleges, and universities that deals with events that have happened in the past.

3. 过去事件的记载;发展史
A history is an account of events that have happened in the past.

4. 记录;习惯;（某地的）沿革
If a person or a place has a history of something, it has been very common or has happened frequently in their past.

5. 履历;经历
Someone's history is the set of facts that are known about their past.

6. 历史的陈迹;（无关紧要的）往事
If you say that an event, thing, or person is history, you mean that they are no longer important.

7. 接下来的事就世人皆知了
If you are telling someone about an event and say the rest is history, you mean that you do not need to tell them what happened next because everyone knows about it already.

8. see also: natural history

1. the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings

e.g. he teaches Medieval history
history takes the long view

2. all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing
a body of knowledge

e.g. the dawn of recorded history
from the beginning of history

3. a record or narrative description of past events

e.g. a history of France
he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president
the story of exposure to lead

Synonym: accountchroniclestory

4. the aggregate of past events

e.g. a critical time in the school's history

5. the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future

e.g. all of human history