Things that might have been optional in the past for job seekers are now mandatory.

VOA: standard.2010.07.28

But this is things we've learned as the years have gone past.

这是我们经过很多年经验教训积累才学到的。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

And one of the nice things about Central Park over the past few years, it's gotten much, much more safe.

中央公园在过去的几年里最好的一点就是它变得越来越安全了。

最美丽的公园 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Now it's high time that we divert from the past or from the notion of liberating the country onto other important things in the economy and education,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.27

They've clustered books Genesis through Esther,which tell of things past; the books of Job through the Song of Songs or the Song of Solomon contain wisdom that applies to the present;and then the prophetic books, Isaiah to Malachi, contain or tell of things future.

创世纪》从《以斯帖记》开始讲过去;,《约伯记》从雅歌也叫所罗门之歌开始,讲现世可以运用的智慧，然后是《先知书》,从《以塞亚记》到《玛拉基书》，讲述未来的事。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

I think Felipe Calderon is coming here with the hope that once President Obama embraces him and says all the right things in terms of applauding what he has done right over the past three years.

VOA: standard.2010.05.17

It's a little bit of a digression, but one of the things that I've witnessed over the past twenty years is that the leakage of the -the leakage from the system in terms of the returns that go to the owners of capital -leakage has increased enormously.

讲一点稍稍离题的内容,我发现,过去的二十年中,这种损耗,这种减损资本所有者收益所得的,系统性损耗,有相当巨大的增长

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

We came up with a back story between the two of us about what things had gone on in the past and why she was so dedicated to him, so loyal and hurt for him so badly."

VOA: standard.2010.06.20