Stop trying to hold onto the past. - you can't start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading your last one.

不要抓住过去不放。如果你一直停留在过去的一页，又怎么能翻开人生的新篇章呢。

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Keith:How are you gonna be a revolutionary if you re such a traditionalist? You hold onto the past, but jazz is about the future.

基思：你如此墨守成规，又怎能成为革新者呢？你死守过去，但爵士乐是关于未来。

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There is a certain kind of melancholy affiliated with the word "nostalgia" - a sense of romanticism evoked by reminiscence, the will to hold onto the past.

“怀旧”这个词带有一种忧郁的意义，它是一种由回忆引发的浪漫精神，以及对过去的执着。

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As much as we may want to hold onto the past, our previous lifestyles and old routines, sometimes life dictates a new route, and a new plan.

FORBES: Find Inventive New Ways to Move Forward

Across New York, there are six House seats in which Democrats are fighting furiously to hold onto the gains they've made over the past two elections.

WSJ: Greater New York Campaigns Turn to Getting Out Their Voters