Writing letters seems to be a thing of the past.
写信好像已是昔日的事情了。
When people have these cars in the future, a petrol station may be a thing of the past.
如果人们在未来能够拥有这些汽车，加油站可能会成为历史。
One day drought may be a thing of the past at least in coastal cities.
至少在沿海城市，总有一天干旱会成为过去。
Waffles, French toast, and Bacon Big breakfasts may be a thing of the past.
华夫饼、法式吐司以及培根早餐可能已经成为过去。
Well, those problems may soon be a thing of the past!
这些问题可能很快就成历史了！
Cheap food, like cheap oil, may be a thing of the past.
便宜的粮食，和便宜的石油，恐怕都是很遥远的往事了。
But this complex system soon will be a thing of the past.
不过，这种复杂的系统不久就会成为历史。
Will the paper versions of these newspapers be a thing of the past?
纸质的报纸会不会成为一种历史？
Relying on GPS only to locate buildings may soon be a thing of the past.
依赖GPS仅仅用来定位建筑物可能即将成为过去。
For deprived iPhone users, the crippled web might then be a thing of the past.
到时候，对于Iphone的使用者而言，残缺的网络时代已经是过去的事情。
Snow piles and drifts on highways and turnpikes may soon be a thing of the past.
雪堆和高速路、收费公路的雪痕将会成为过去。
Such nightmare visions, and locust plagues with them, may one day be a thing of the past.
但愿有一天这种噩梦似的景象和与此相伴的蝗灾将会成为历史。
But it's not clear how much can be done. Cheap food, like cheap oil, may be a thing of the past.
但是，到底还有多少可以做的事，目前尚不明朗。便宜的粮食，和便宜的石油，恐怕都是很遥远的往事了。
Well, that uncertainty may be a thing of the past with a new topographical augmented reality app called Marmota.
好吧，这种不确定将随着一款叫做Marmota(山拨鼠)的地形增强实境应用程序的出现而成为过去。
If we spared the middleman and distributed those corn and grain crops directly to the poor and needy, world hunger would be a thing of the past.
如果我们抹掉这个中间环节，把那些玉米和谷物直接分配到贫穷和有需要的人受伤，世界饥饿很快就会成为历史。
Although parking enforcers no longer operate as bounty hunters, and wheel-clamping private vigilantes will soon be a thing of the past too, the public has yet to notice.
尽管停车管理执法者不再是赏金猎人，锁车轮私人卫士也将很快成为历史，但公众还没有注意到这一点。
A physical locale may be a thing of the past - you can't walk into Amazon, for instance - but fostering, bolstering, and rewarding customer loyalty is no less important.
实体店已是明日黄花—例如您无法步入Amazon—但培养、支持并回报忠实客户依旧重要。
This could be a thing as simple as a representation of a record in a database that consists of a mapping between column names and XML tags, where the element values in the XML contain the row values.
这可以像数据库中的记录表示形式一样简单，其中包括列名称与XML标记之间的映射，XML中的元素值包含行值。
You were the one that brought up the idea of blackmail. I'd never be a party to such a thing.
你是那个提出敲诈主意的人。我从来没想过参与这种事。
Chefs such as Delia Smith, Nigel Slater, Jamie Oliver and Gordon Ramsay made the public realise that cooking— and eating— didn't have to be a boring thing.
迪莉娅·史密斯、奈杰尔·斯莱特、杰米·奥利弗和戈登·拉姆齐等厨师让公众意识到，烹饪或者说饮食不一定是一件无聊的事情。
That would be a great thing, but how can you contrive it?
那将是一件伟大的事情，但是你怎么能做到呢？
Now I know that for some people this might be quite a frightening thing to do, but it is perfectly safe.
现在我知道，对一些人来说，这做起来可能是一件相当可怕的事情，但它是完全安全的。
You'll be under anaesthetic, so you won't feel a thing.
你将被麻醉，所以什么也感觉不到。
I have to reject the notion that greed can be a good thing.
我不能接受那种认为贪欲也可以是件好事的想法。
I think prison is going to be a scary thing for Harry.
我认为蹲监狱对哈利来说会是件很可怕的事。
I think the sensible thing would be to take a taxi home.
我想还是坐出租车回去的好。
However, I do think that an element of stress is a good thing, and if used the right way, can actually be a positive thing.
然而，我认为压力元素确实是一件好事，且如果处理得当，它实际上是可以带来积极影响的事。
那将是一件好事！
This in itself, of course, need not be a bad thing.
当然，这本身未必是一件坏事。
We should assure such students that risk, and even peer pressure, can be a good thing—as long as it happens in the classroom and not in the car.
我们应该向这些学生保证，风险甚至来自同辈的压力，都是一件好事——只要它发生在教室里，而不是在车上。
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