With a start, I realized that perhaps the reason for the 4 a.m. wake-up noise was not ordinary rudeness but carefully executed spite: I had not tipped Raoul in Christmases past.

首先，我意识到让人凌晨4点起床的噪音不是普通的无礼，而是精心制造的恶意：在过去的圣诞节里，我没有给拉乌尔小费。

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Happiness is not a point of future and not a moment from the past, but a mindset that can be designed into the present.

幸福不是未来的某个节点，也不是过去的某个时刻，而是能够融入到当下的一种心境。

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The album sees them re-living past glories but not really breaking any new ground.

在这张专辑中他们重温了昔日的辉煌成就，却没有任何真正新的突破。

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But MOCA is not just interested in the past.

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But, Nabokov's relationship to this modernist past is not just the burlesque that he visits on Eliot, is not just this complicated attraction and dis-identification that he works on with Proust.

但是，纳博科夫和现代主义者的关系不只是,他对艾略特的滑稽模仿，也不只是和普鲁斯特,复杂的吸引和不认同。

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Not with this girl, this girl is perfect. But in the past, I've had lots of problems with roommates.

和这个女孩没吵过，她太完美了。但在过去，我和室友之间存在很多问题。

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Another idea is to file proper tax returns and FBARs prospectively but not for the past.

FORBES: It's Not Too Late To Disclose Foreign Accounts

Ferrer reached the semifinals in New York in 2007, but had not gone past round four again until now.

CNN: U.S. Open: Ferrer finds fortune as rain hits New York courts

The Bulldogs were playing in their 15th straight NCAA tournament but have not advanced past the Round of 16 since 1999.

NPR: Wichita St.'s 3-Pointers Boot No. 1 Gonzaga 76-70