The sense of let-down today is all the greater because in the past doctors have been over-confident about these treatments.

今天的幻灭感尤其强烈，原因是过去医生们对这些治疗过度自信。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

Memories of the past filled her mind to the exclusion of all else.

她满脑子全是对过去的回忆，其他事情都不想了。

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Making a completely clean break with the past, the couple got rid of all their old furniture.

为了与过去断得一干二净,这对夫妻丢弃了他们所有的旧家具。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

In the United States, smoking rates are down from the past, but cigarettes still cause about one-fifth of all deaths.

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When I began connecting the justice that I felt in my veins to the source of that which is God, the all powerful, I felt the sense of wholeness that I haven't felt in the past.

在我开始将,流淌在我的血液里的正义与与,全能的上帝这一源泉相连时，我感受到了完整性,这种完整感是我过去从未体会过的。

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"And they created roughly 70 percent of all new jobs in the past decade."

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Fairholme topped its domestic peers on an annual basis for nearly all of the past decade.

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For almost all of the past seven years interest rates in Japan have been set at zero.

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Congress has been the dominant force in Indian politics for almost all of the past 65 years.

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