When the bad is behind us, that seems less bothersome than when the bad is in front of us.

当糟糕的事过去之后，它似乎没有在我们前面时那么麻烦。

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I don't think we talked to her though.

但是我们没有过去跟她讲话。

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Its composition is influenced and determined by literary conventions and goals. Now, of course we all know that there is no such thing as purely objective history anyway. We have no direct access to past events.

它的形成是受文学的惯例和目的影响和决定的,当然现在我们都知道了没有什么是纯客观的历史,我们没有直接通向过去事件的途径。

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