we have consumers under pressure because of their overextension of credit and they're having overpaid for houses over the last handful of years.

一些承受压力的消费者,因为过度贷款,他们不得不在过去的几年时间里,在买房子的时候花费了更多的钱。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Because we have, as you've hopefully realized, made a concerted effort over the past several years to really reach out to students on this campus who might not otherwise have considered this as a field of exploration, just a one semester course, or even ultimately a concentration or minor.

你们也认识到了，因为我们，在过去几年中作出了共同的努力,来影响这个校园的学生们,但是某些学生可能认为这并不是一个探索性的领域,而只是学期中的一个课程而已，或者只是一门主修或选修课程。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Is it in the collective memory that people remember three centuries later that the Catholic Church was identified, at least as a hierarchy, with the Vichy Regime in World war II?

到二战时 宗教战争已经过去了三百年,在村民的大众记忆中是否因为等级制度,仍将天主教和二战中的维希政府视为一丘之貉

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

This is less of a problem in modern life then it used to be, but because things are supplemented and fortified-- overly so in some cases-- but still the deficiencies are less common then they used to be.

相比过去,这在现代社会中已不太多见,因为如今很多食物有人工添加的微量元素,有些甚至是过度添加了,但相比过去,缺乏微量元素已不那么常见了

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