Once language starts to develop from about age 2, they do have a system for symbolic representation and can talk about things which aren't in their immediate environment including the past.
一旦语言从2岁左右开始发展，他们就有了一个符号表征系统，可以谈论过去和现在环境之外的事情。
American parents want similar things for their children, the Pew report and past research have found: for them to be healthy and happy, honest and ethical, caring and compassionate.
皮尤研究中心的报告和以往的研究都发现，美国父母对他们的孩子有类似的要求：希望他们健康快乐、诚实守信、仁义道德、关心他人和富有同情心。
Fears for the Eggs became things of the past.
为蛋的担心受怕已成为过去。
The children were organized to the laboratory for the first time at the age of 3 and discussed impressed things from their past, such as the first relaxing trip with your family, the first dancing accident you met, and the first day of school.
孩子们在3岁的时候第一次被组织到实验室，讨论他们过去印象深刻的事情，比如第一次和家人的放松旅行，第一次遇到的跳舞失误，以及第一天上学等等。
Some things are basic for us nowadays, but the people in the past could live the lives to the full even without them.
有些东西对我们现在来说是基本的，但过去的人即使没有它们也可以活得很充实。
We need to figure out how to do scary things that would be good for us, break bad habits, how to let go of bad things in the past, etc.
我们需要知道怎样去做对我们有利但看起来可怕的事，怎样改掉坏习惯，怎样让过去的不好的经历过去，等等。
If you are stuck in the good of the past you likely feel bad about where you are right now – longing for the way things used to be.
如果你一味沉迷于过去的成功影子下，即使现在你做的对，你可能也会觉得不好，因为你老在想着过去那些习惯的经验。
Things that are thrown away or lost can tell us as much about the past as any objects carefully preserved for posterity.
其实被丢弃或遗失的东西，也如同那些被视如珍宝一样精心保存的物品，能向我们诉说那过去的故事。
Though I knew the friend I mentioned above for only one year, our friendship was very deep because we had gone through a lot of things in the past.
我和上面所说的那位朋友虽然当时只是认识了一年多一点，要是我们的友情是很深厚的，因为我们曾经一起经历过很多东西。
I have been in the business of working with communities in need for the past 20 years I have learned a few things, the main one being: Helping others is about listening to their expressed needs.
过去20年我都和需要帮助的群体一起工作，这些经验使我有了一些认识，其中主要的一点就是：帮助别人是去聆听他们所表达的需求。
These meetings give us a chance to re-group and discuss things that were done in the past week that either annoyed us or that we were grateful for.
家庭会议给我们一个重新审视家庭关系的机会，我们一起讨论一周里那些令人烦心的事或是值得我们感激的事。
Over the past year things have been looking up for the effort to avert serious climate change.
在过去的一年里各国做出诸多努力缓解严重的气候变化问题，情况有所好转。
In the past few days financial markets have paused for thought about the valuation of the increasingly ephemeral things in which they deal.
过去的几天金融市场停顿下来思考它们交易的那些越发短命的东西的估价。
“Balance of payments” crises were now, for this country, things of the past.
如今，对于美国来说，“国际收支平衡 ”危机已经成为历史。
Do you condemn yourself for things which you did — or failed to do — in the past?
你是否为你曾经做过的事，或失败的事而对自己耿耿于怀？
My husband and I are now preparing for a move, and it’s amazing how many things have moved with me several times in the past but have never been used.
丈夫和我正在准备一次搬家，令人惊奇的发现是，以前搬家时带着的好多东西其实从没被使用过。
Because I guess even nowadays people seem to think more rather than in the past, "oh, there's one person meant for me", but now there's a lot people that divorce and do this type of things.
因为我觉得现在人们不太像，过去那样以为有一个人是注定，要跟我在一起的，现在很多人，离婚或者这样那样。
I think we're often too hard on ourselves for things we've done in the past.
我认为，我们经常对在过去所做的事要求太苛刻。
Things have been going badly for you, and as a result you have been piling on the pounds; in the past three years your weight has ballooned by a shocking 10% a year.
你的情况不妙，体重一直在增加：在过去的三年里，你的体重每年激增10%，令人惊心。
Dr Morency knew from past experiments that lowering of vocal pitch and pausing were both cues likely to draw a nod from a listener, so these were things that he programmed the system to look out for.
莫伦斯博士从以前的研究中了解到突然压低的嗓音和戛然而止的话音可能是听众点头的信号。这些信号正是他们所设计的软件所要捕获的。
Later I reflect on something Liene said. "Things may not have been so easy these past 20 years but I remember the Soviet times and having to queue for bread and milk." Should we return to those times?
后来我想起了蕾妮说过的话，“在过去二十年里，我们过得也不容易，但是我还记得在前苏联统治时期，人们要排队去买面包和牛奶，我们还愿意回到那样的年代去吗？”
But unlike some people, you take full responsibility for your actions-you rarely regret things you've done in the past and are not embarrassed easily.
但是与一些人不同，你对自己的行为全部负责，你很少对自己做过的事情感到后悔，而且也不容易感到尴尬。
For the past several years, there have been three things you could count on: Death, taxes and Facebook gaining in value.
过去几年，世间确定无疑的只有三件事：死亡、税收和Facebook不断增长的估值。
This hasn't been too much of an issue in the past since just as they compete, sometimes the two companies also help one another in terms of things like apps for the iPhone.
在两家公司开始正面竞争前这种情况并不多，当时这两家公司还在iPhone程序等方面互相帮助。
One of the things that made 9/11 different from many of the battlefields where Nachtwey has worked for the past 30 years was that he wasn't seeing the bodies of the dead.
911事件与之前三十年里曾经工作过的战场不同之处是，纳希微这次没有看到尸体。
Sometimes, some things may not be "never" this two word do framework, so when things of the past, don't be sad for passing moments, but to understand forgotten once beautiful moments.
有时候，有的事情也许并没有有‘永远’这两个字做框架，所以，当事情过去的时候，不要为擦肩而过的瞬间而悲伤，而是要懂得遗忘曾经美丽的瞬间。
Past winners have been honored for studying, among other things, why toast falling off the breakfast table tends to land butter-side down.
该项大奖以往的获奖研究千奇百怪，例如：为什么面包抹好黄油以后掉落餐桌，总是黄油那一面着地？
Well, there might be an excuse: It's because they had to wait in long lines too often, for too many things, and for too long in the past.
如果我说是因为过去中国人不得不常常因为很多很多事情排很长很长的队等很久很久，他们不排队可能是计划经济下挑衅心理的结果。
Well, there might be an excuse: It's because they had to wait in long lines too often, for too many things, and for too long in the past.
如果我说是因为过去中国人不得不常常因为很多很多事情排很长很长的队等很久很久，他们不排队可能是计划经济下挑衅心理的结果。
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