我们曾经在一些本应轻易取胜的比赛中落选。
We have been beaten in some games which we should have won hands down.
我们都曾经相信工作是成功的关键。
我们代表了曾经使这个国家伟大的仅存的品质–勤奋。
We represent the last vestige of what made this nation great – hard work.
我们曾经患难与共，现在依然是好友。
We'd been to hell and back together and we were still good friends.
他们曾经走进我们的生命。
正如一位智者曾经说过的，我们最终都是孤独的。
在国家危急时刻，我们这一代人曾经携手合作，坚定立场。
Our generation once joined hands and stood firm at times of national emergency.
这就像我们听说过的他们曾经在约克郡举办的一场野兽表演一样。
It would be same as a wild beast show as we heard they had in York once.
虽然近年来我们的鱼类储量下降，可能永远无法再现曾经的风光，但冷烟熏制的熏鲱鱼仍是英格兰最美味的食物之一。
The decline of our fish stocks may have changed the landscape forever, but the kipper, a cold-smoked herring, still remains one of the great tastes of England.
数以百计的职业姓氏对我们来说曾经是熟悉的，或者至少稍加思考就能辨认出来：阿切尔、卡特、费雪、梅森、撒切尔、泰勒等等。
Hundreds of occupational surnames are at once familiar to us, or at least recognizable after a little thought: Archer, Carter, Fisher, Mason, Thatcher, Taylor, to name but a few.
我们曾经是孩子。
我们曾经上过同一节数学课。
他们中没有人曾经抱怨说我们把他们挤出市场或其他类似的言论。
None of them have ever complained that we are putting them out of business or anything like that.
我们曾经认为昆虫是最小的生物，还认为没有什么东西生活在六百米以上的深处地区。
We used to think that insects were the smallest organisms, and that nothing lived deeper than six hundred meters.
这个不幸的、被破坏的星系可能曾经看起来更像我们的银河系，一个风车形状的星系。
The hapless, mangled galaxy may have once looked more like our Milky Way, a pinwheel-shaped galaxy.
这就是我写这本书的原因，这本书主要讨论的是在未来社会，当技术给我们曾经认为高收入的工作带来破坏性的变化的时候，应该如何重新规划未来的经济结构。
That's why I wrote this book, which is about how to reorganize the economy for the future when technology brings about destructive changes to what we used to consider high-income work.
最终，我们有可能以奢侈消费来回报这种善意。这种奢侈消费曾经受到谴责，但现在每个人都希望能以其重启经济。
There's a chance that eventually we'll return all this kindness with the extravagant spending that was once decried but now everyone is hoping will restart the economy.
此外，曾经在我们深夜新闻节目中做广告的当地企业刚刚取消了与我们的广告合同。
In addition, local businesses that used to advertise during our late-night news program have just canceled their advertising contracts with us.
这曾经是一个农业区，我们已经知道，现在主演讲厅所在的地方曾经有建于18世纪晚期的农舍和谷仓。
This used to be an agricultural area and we already know that where the main lecture hall now stands, there once were farm house and barn that were erected in the late 1700s.
我们曾经引以为傲的美国生活方式出现了严重的问题。
Something has gone terribly wrong with our once-proud American way of life.
我们曾经引以为傲的美国生活方式出现了严重的问题。
Something has gone terribly wrong with our once-proud American way of life.
在加拿大打球时，一位NBA球员曾经低声轻笑，带着难以置信的神情跟我说：“我们必须和其他人一样在海关排队等候。”
An NBA player once said to me, with a bemused chuckle of disbelief, that when playing in Canada—get this—"We have to wait in the same customs line as everybody else."
我们将作为一个太平洋国家这样做，这个国家的总统曾经在某种程度上受到地球上这个地区的影响。
We will do so as a Pacific nation, with a President who was shaped in part by this piece of the globe.
我们曾经为缺乏准备所阻，但我肯定我们会表现很好的。
We have been hindered by our lack of preparation, but I'm sure we will give a good account of ourselves.
当我们曾经邀请世界上最聪明的人来这里安家时，我们现在却让他们离开。
While we once asked the brightest minds in the world to come and make their homes here, we now turn them away.
我们中大多数人，如果对食物的来源有过一点了解，就会明白我们吃的每一口食物都曾经是有生命的。
Most of us, if we know even a little about where our food comes from, understand that every bite put into our mouths was formerly alive.
不管怎样，只要我们没有成功，就永远不会有人知道我们曾经努力过。
Twon't ever be known that we tried, anyway, long as we didn't succeed.
一路上，我们破坏了大多数我们曾经耕作过的的土地，经常把翠绿的自然生态区变成了半干旱的沙漠。
Along the way, we despoiled most of the land we worked, often turning verdant, natural ecozones into semi-arid deserts.
我们边吃边喝，谈论着我们曾经拥有的美丽森林。
While eating and drinking, we talked about the beautiful forest we once had.
有一天，老师带我们外出，我们在一块曾经是森林的田里野餐。
One day, our teacher took us out and we had a picnic in the field where the forest used to be.
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