By making this present moment count, you also make all the past moments count even more.

通过让眼下过得有意义，你也令过去的时刻更有价值。

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This shows how long it was before we deemed it necessary to make sure that all our children could share in the knowledge accumulated by the 'happy few' during the past centuries.

这说明，经过了多么漫长的时间之后，我们才认识到，有必要确保我们的孩子享有多少个世纪以来由‘少数幸运者’所积累起来的知识。

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Please make me look past all the superficial, and please make me refrain from being too judgemental.

请让我能够透过现象看本质，还有请让我克制不要再批判。

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The main effect of additional engineering improvements will be the same as for all such improvements in the past: to make travel easier, cheaper, more convenient and more attractive thus encouraging us to do more of it.

WSJ: The Problem With Going Green by David Owen

Why has all the foreign aid of the past half century failed to make a dent?

FORBES: Wealth and Poverty

Not all the owners are inclined to make a fuss, which may in the past have led local customs officers to think they are on to a good thing.

ECONOMIST: Yo ho ho, and a bottle of rice wine