Over the past year, sky-high fuel prices have focused minds on efficiency like never before.

在过去的一年里，高昂的燃料价格使人们前所未有地关注能源效率。

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In the past, it wasn't popular with western children, but most of them have changed their minds already.

在过去，它不受西方孩子的欢迎，但他们大多数已经改变了看法。

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The financial crisis of the past nine months is stirring a new export fatalism in the minds of some economists.

过去九个月里的金融危机在某些经济学家的脑海里搅起了新的出口宿命论。

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And that is the way that the word has influenced people's minds in the past.

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The Knicks made the playoffs the past two seasons but sensible minds knew they weren't going anywhere.

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It is perhaps not surprising that these people, their minds stuck in the past, choose leaders whose names disguise time's passage.

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