If you've always been a certain way or done a certain thing, but it's not working for you any more, or you're not content, Emerson says that it'd be foolish to be consistent even with our own past.
如果你总是以某种方式或做某种事情，但它不再适合你，或者你不满足，爱默生说，即使是与我们自己的过去保持一致也是愚蠢的。
It's not healthy the way she clings to the past.
她那种沉湎于过去的态度不明智。
It is not permitted to sell or otherwise distribute copies of past examination papers.
不准出售或以其他方式散发过去的试卷。
I'm trying not to be sentimental about the past.
我尽力不为过去的事情而多愁善感。
Water shortages do not have to trouble the world — if we start valuing water more than we have in the past.
如果我们开始比过去更加重视水的价值，水资源短缺就不会给世界带来麻烦。
Large surveys conducted over the course of many years tell us that American youth are not going to the cinema nearly as often as they did in the past.
多年来进行的大型调研告诉我们，美国年轻人去电影院的频率不像过去那么高了。
Unlike many past Fed leaders, Yellen is not one to buy into the finance industry's argument that it should be left alone to regulate itself.
与诸多美联储前任领导人不同，耶伦并不认同让金融业进行自行管理的观点。
Some people are absorbed in the past but not open to new memories, but that's not the case for me.
有些人沉迷于过去，不愿接受新的记忆，但我不是这样的。
In Kenya, in the past, students were not required to attend school and the education was not free, either.
在过去，肯尼亚不要求学生上学，教育也不是免费的。
Today, new problems have emerged in the process of resolving old ones, but the solution is not to go back to the past.
如今，在解决旧问题的过程中出现了新问题，但解决办法不是回到过去。
Unfortunately, such estimates did not adequately account for past differences in rates of sedimentation or losses to the total section of strata during episodes of erosion.
不幸的是，这种估测没有充分考虑到过去在侵蚀期间沉积速率或地层总剖面损失的差异。
My employee, Biff, has been late to work the past three days; I notice this and conclude that Biff is lazy and does not care about his job.
我的员工比夫过去三天上班老是迟到；我注意到了这一点，得出结论：比夫很懒，不关心自己的工作。
People who work to keep languages alive are not limited to the past.
致力于让语言存活下来的人并不只存在于过去。
Some individuals would therefore not have been caught, since no baited hooks would have been available to trap them, leading to an underestimate of fish stocks in the past.
因为没有可利用的带诱饵的钩子来捕捉它们，个别的鱼没有被捕获，这导致过去人们低估了鱼类的数量。
In response to past critics, Twenge and her co-researchers stress they are not trying to prove that the use of digital devices reduces young people's wellbeing.
在回应过去的批评时，特温格和她的同事强调，他们并没有试图证明使用电子设备会降低年轻人的幸福感。
You can now use your phone to translate speech in real time, having a conversation that would not have been possible in the past.
现在你可以使用手机进行实时语音翻译，进行一次过去无法实现的对话。
People traveled to see the buildings, the food, the national dresses in foreign countries because they thought they would not be the same as those of their own countries in the past.
人们旅行去看外国的建筑、食物、民族服装，因为他们认为这些在过去与现在不同。
"Not at first, perhaps," said the Hatter, "but you could keep it to half-past one as long as you liked."
“也许一开始没有，”帽商说，“不过你想要多久就可以把时间保持到一点半。”
Born with a dicky heart, his protagonist was not supposed to live past the age of 30.
由于虚弱的心脏，他的主角本应活不过30岁。
The classics remind us not to forget our past and explain where our cultural confidence comes from.
经典提醒我们不要忘记过去，解释我们的文化自信从何而来。
Not many of us will realize how much we rely on it until we compare our lives to those in the past.
只有当将自己的生活与过去人们的生活进行比较时，我们大部分人才会意识到我们有多么依赖它。
"The past is to be dropped not because it is bad but because it is dead".
放下过去，不是因为过去是坏的，而是因为过去是死的。
If not helping helps them to better appreciate past compassion taken for granted, it's good.
如果不帮助能让他们更懂得感激过去被视为理所应当的同情，那么就不帮助。
So, you have two groups of people not talking to one another, but talking past each other.
这样，这两组人并不相互交流，而是只谈对方的过去。
But then again, much of the present talk about ungovernability relates not to the recent past but to the immediate future.
可是当我们回溯前面的论点，大部分有关无法治理的言论不是讲的最近的过去，而是讲的不久的未来。
Successful leaders are emotionally and intellectually oriented to the future — not wedded to the past.
成功的领导者，从情感和理智上都着眼于未来而不是过去。
These feelings, often known as the "holiday blues," may be even more prevalent, due to the emotional turmoil of the past few months, not to mention the unsteady economy.
且不说变化不定的经济，过去几个月来情感上的波折就可能使这种被称为“假日忧伤”的情感更为普遍。
Now, I'm not implying that you have to reconcile all of your past frustrations and disappointments to become a successful trader, because that's not the case.
我并不是暗示你为了成为成功的交易者就要处理好过去的受挫和失望心态。
So whatever we think of the past, we must not be prisoners to it.
因此，无论我们如何看待过去，我们绝不成为它的俘虏。
In this fast changing environment we could never predict what the future was going to be, but we were certain of what is was not going to be: like the past.
在这种快速变化的环境里，我们无法预测未来世界是怎么样的，但我们却很明确什么是未来不发生的：那就是过去。
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