Forgetting clearly aids orientation in time, since old memories weaken and the new tend to stand out, providing clues for inferring duration.

遗忘显然有助于时间的定位，因为旧的记忆会减弱，新的记忆会突显出来，从而为推断持续的时间提供线索。

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Once upon a time, a wealthy old man lived alone in a big house.

从前，一位富有的老人独自住在一所大房子里。

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Prior to beginning his design, the architect spent some time in the client's old home, observing their life and studying their habits.

在开始设计之前，建筑师在客户原来的房子待了一段时间，观察他们的生活，研究他们的习惯。

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A cartoon man dressed in old time pilot clothing greets visitors to Admongo.

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In Yeats people are always particulars who are fitted to types which are new versions of old identities that travel across time.

在他的诗歌里人总是特定的,某些类型，是穿越时间的,古老人物的现代化身。

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And, at one point in time, he laments the end of the old Latin world and the B.C. world, when people could have these child slaves.

在某一时刻，他为拉丁时代和公元前时代的结束而哀悼，那时人们可以拥有小孩做奴隶。

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Before leaving for law school in China I jumped in my little red truck, threw my newly bought old-time banjo in the back, and went on a road trip through Appalachia to learn some old-time American music.

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Part of the way in which the epic legitimizes its ability to talk about so many levels of existence and so many kinds of experience is its style: an ancient authority inheres in that old-time diction, the plushly padded epithets and stately rhythms.

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It has got funding in place for redeveloping the site and is hoping to move out of the old buildings in 18 months time.

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