What was the point in living in the past, thinking about what had or had not happened?

活在过去有什么意义，思考已经发生的或者没有发生的事情？

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You do not know whether what you're told is true or false.

你不知道别人告诉你的是真的还是假的。

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Whether we like it or not, what we wear does help form a first impression.

不管我们是否喜欢，我们穿什么的确有助于形成第一印象。

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In everyday speech, holding your cards close to your vest means not letting other know what you are doing or thinking.

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We are honoring instead the integrity of what they're saying without thinking about whether or not it might be true.

我们事实上反而在,尊重他们所说内容的真实性,却从未想过这到底是不是真的。

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Or whether or not they had no idea what they were doing, and they've given themselves over to this process.

还是说诗人并不完全理解自己写的文字，而是在创作过程中完全超然忘我。

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"We do not want to tell people what to eat or what not to eat, " she said.

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"Obviously the ump didn't think he challenged in time, but maybe because of the crowd noise the ump couldn't hear it or what not, " Isner said.

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The wealthy are the customers for each new innovation that comes along, whether it be telephone or television or what-not, so they might as well be the customers for a market system for medicine.

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