高管对某一行动方针的过度承诺，尤其是在过去行之有效的情况下，很可能会忽略问题初起的迹象，或在问题出现时误解这些迹象。
Heavy commitment by an executive to a course of action, especially if it has worked well in the past, makes it likely to miss signs of incipient trouble or misinterpret them when they do appear.
在过去五年左右的时间里，当有人问“我是否应该尝试获得工商管理学硕士学位”时，答案更多的是：视情况而定。
In the last five years or so, when someone says, "Should I attempt to get an MBA," the answer a lot more is: It depends.
虽然洪水在图像中看起来波及广泛，这只不过是过去一两周内东欧发生情况的小小“快照”而已。
While the flooding illustrated here is extensive, it represents but a small “snapshot” of conditions that have developed in Eastern Europe over the past one to two weeks.
过去有一种情况是这样的，一名能干的记者能够报道任何摆在他(她)面前的故事。
It used to be the case that a competent journalist could cover any story that was put before of him or her.
我能察觉到在过去的20年中情况恶化的是多么迅速。
I could see how rapidly things had declined over the past 20 years.
他们之所以愈来愈受重视的原因是，其支持性技术已经愈来愈成熟，成熟点在于比起过去的情况来看在实践上更加自动化。
The reason they are receiving much more attention now is that the supporting technologies have matured to the point where much more can be automated practically than was the case in the past.
如果在探测器被拿走的情况下，我们还是一颗颗地放射单光子，可是却看不出它们是从哪条缝穿过去的。
If we then take the detectors away we are still firing individual photons one at a time but we no longer know which slit they are going through.
在某些更严重的情况下，有的人不仅失去对过去和那些令他痛苦的事情和日子的记忆，甚至连他自己是谁也不知道了。
In severe cases, the individual not only loses his or her memory of past, painful events, or periods of time, but also loses his or her identity.
“一切终将过去”，这句话对于生活中的任何情况都是适用的，无论是好事，还是坏事。
‘This too shall pass’ is universally applicable to all situations in your life, both good and bad.
英国最大的抵押借贷公司哈里法克斯公布的数据显示，过去三个月的房价都下跌了。是12年以来最糟的情况。
Data published by Halifax, Britain's biggest mortgage-lender, show that prices have fallen in each of the past three months, the worst streak for 12 years.
当被问及最严重的核危机是否已经过去，美国能源部长朱棣文说：“我们认为是这样的，但是我们也不知道确切的情况。”
Asked if the worst of the nuclear crisis was over, Steven Chu, the US Energy Secretary Steven Chu, said: "we believe so, but I don't want to make a blanket statement."
而这样做在过去欧洲的情况是，电力公司将购买许可证的成本转嫁到消费者身上，并把免费得到许可证的好处吞掉。
When that happened in Europe, power-generation companies passed the cost of buying permits on to consumers and pocketed the value of the ones they had been given free.
指的好像是过去一直是这样的情况，自从第一拨带着高顶礼帽的董事们坐在第一张橡木桌子旁开始就是这样了。
The boardroom has been an arena where power is contested ever since the first top-hatted directors sat around the first burled oak table.
过去经常发生的情况是，捐助者在头几年里很热心，可后来就失去了兴趣，转去关注其它事件。
Typically in the past, the donors have been interested in the first couple of years, and then they got bored. They moved on to some other situation.
每月的化疗期间，菲茨杰拉德面临的主要问题是化疗引起的恶心和疲劳。她的治疗效果挺好的，副作用也比较轻微，所以菲茨杰拉德认为最坏情况将要过去了。
Through her monthly chemotherapy, Fitzgerald dealt with nausea and fatigue. Her treatment was going well, and side effects were mild, so Fitzgerald thought the worst could be over.
过去遇到这种情况，心理治疗师们就会开始指责长辈的不是，不过现在大家更明白了，其实这种行为与遗传、身体状况、父亲和兄弟的角色，甚至环境等等因素都脱离不了关系，是所有因素共同作用的结果。
So often in the past psychiatry tended to "blame the mother," but we now understand that so many factors - genetic, biologic, the role of father and siblings, and environmental - all play their part.
这种逻辑被CarmenReinhart和KennethRogoff的研究成果削弱，他们的研究说明在过去许多情况下国家是怎样出现债务违约情况的。
That rationale was undermined by the work of Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, who showed how countries had defaulted on their debts on many occasions in the past.
现在和过去的情况往往是这样。
然而，这一数字体现的是过去二十至三十年中的资产汇报情况，将来很难达到这一水平。
This is often around 8%, and reflects the performance of the past 20-30 years. However, such returns will be hard to come by in future.
好了，尽管如此，也许7月份有什么特殊的情况，在过去的823年里竟然会没有一个7月1日刚好是星期五？
Ok, still, maybe there's something special about July, and there hasn't been a July 1 on a Friday in 823 years?
在过去，情况是完全丌一样的。
在过去，情况是完全丌一样的。
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