The papers keep trying to dredge up details of his past love life.

这些报纸老是翻出他以往爱情生活的琐事。

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The old man was in a trance, thinking of his past life.

这位老人回想着自己过去的生活，神情恍惚。

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Whatever the vicissitudes of her past life, Jill now seems to have come through.

不管过去经历了什么世事变迁，吉尔现在似乎已经度过难关了。

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Widely respected for his craft, his private life however over the past 15 years was muddied with allegations of child abuse while he suffered under the weight of a huge financial debt.

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But the message isn't that optimistic sort of that life is short, enjoy it. It's more that the past is no good to us and we can't rekindle the past.

但是其所传达的信息并不是乐观的，不是那种,生命短暂，尽情享受的想法，此外,过去于我们无益，我们也无法使昔日之火复燃。

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But this would not necessarily exclude the possibility that life or the remnants of past life persist below ground, where conditions could be more benign.

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Malaika founder Kristen Kenney has a pretty good day job (she is an interactive correspondent for Fox Sports and covered the 2012 London Olympics), but much of the past three years of her life have been devoted to building the nonprofit.

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Half of patients with the condition do not survive past the first week of life, according to the National Institutes of Health.

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