Water over the dam is an expression about a past event.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

Could you tell us a past story about them?

能跟我们讲讲他们过去的故事吗？

留在记忆中的学生 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Israel's past and present and future generations form a collective entity, Israel, that collectively assents to the covenant.

犹太人的过去，现在，未来形成了一个共同的存在，全体犹太人都赞成这个契约。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

It has been in the news over the past months during a disputed takeover negotiation with the American company Kraft Foods.

VOA: special.2010.02.17

In a second he got it going forward and drove off crookedly past the man and boy still standing there watching.

他迅速地将车向前开动,歪歪扭扭地经过,仍然在一旁站立的男人和男孩。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

For the past four years, Al Wiman has organized a monthly science cafe for the Saint Louis Science Center in Missouri.

VOA: special.2010.05.14

And as they were past they see that a small child has fallen into the pond and is in danger drowning.

这时，你看到,一个小孩掉进了池塘,就要溺水，情况危急。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Jill Cooper is married to Tom Udall, a Democrat from New Mexico who entered the Senate this past January.

VOA: special.2009.12.28

And for better or for worse we've done a lot of damage over the past few years for this stuff.

过去的几年，无论好坏,我们都已经对这个东西造成很大的损坏了。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

The "girl" in all these books is Lisbeth Salander, an independent young woman with a very dark and secretive past.

VOA: special.2010.08.18

Now I had an interesting discussion in section this past week and a couple of really good questions were asked.

现在我要告诉你们刚刚这周所学章节内容的有趣讨论，有人提出几个好问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

The group says less time passes for an earthquake shock wave to reach a measuring instrument than in the past.

VOA: special.2009.03.17

Even before the death of de Man and the revelations about his past, there were a lot of people sort of shaking their fists and saying, "What about history? What about reality?"

甚至在德曼逝世之前，对他的过往的揭露之前，就有许多人挑战他的观点，说道，那历史呢，现实呢“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Boehringer Ingelheim has been working with the nonprofit organization PATH to offer a similar pouch for the past several years.

VOA: special.2010.05.24

These are cells that I that were obtained either from a more developed embryo, past the blastocyst stage.

这些细胞是我从,发育的更成熟的一些胚胎中提取的,这些胚胎已经过了囊胚期了

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Georgiana's past lovers used to say that the hand of a magical fairy had touched her face when she was born.

VOA: special.2009.09.26

When me, personally, like I remember the past of family doesn't feel like a myth.

当我，对我来说，我记得的,家庭的过去并不像一个谜。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

For the past year, the World Food Program has operated a project to prevent hunger in twenty-one countries in Africa.

VOA: special.2009.11.17

Now this is when I want to stop for a second and I know that some of you, from past experience, are somewhat math phobic.

现在我们暂停一下,根据之前的教学经验,我知道有些人有数学恐惧症

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

I was excited myself. I had visited Guyana as a reporter a number of times in the past.

VOA: special.2011.01.08

For example, I can-- and having the past experience-- envy towards my best friend, that in and of itself does not make me a bad person.

举个例子，我可以…,因为以前的经历-,嫉妒我最好的朋友，那种情绪本身不代表我是个坏人。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

A bird with broad white wings and a long slender neck flew past Sylvie and landed on a pine branch below her.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

Furthermore it would seem that the study of the great books or great thinkers of the past can easily degenerate into a kind of antiquarianism into a sort of pedantry.

更甚之,研究这些巨著或,过往的伟大思想家,更可能轻易地降格为古物癖,或是卖弄学问。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

They would build a canal to carry them past the turn in the river, past the Confederate cannon.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

And notice by the by, that when we make choices about our future, from the hedonist point of view, at least, there's no particular need to dwell a whole lot on the past, because what's done is done.

需要注意的是，当我们,为未来作选择时，起码享乐主义者认为，不必过分着眼于过去，因为过去的已经过去。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But fewer camels than in the past were traded at a recent camel fair in Pushkar, in Rajasthan.

VOA: special.2009.01.13

And I produce different events, and I actually just had a big opening this past weekend. I had forty seven artists,

我创作不同的作品，而实际上，上个周末我刚办了一个开幕式。我请来了四十七个艺术家，

纽约的美术馆 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

A Spanish note protested sadly that the agreement took away the last memory of a glorious past.

VOA: special.2010.07.22

This year, no, not really. Um, years past, I was in a Columbia Political Union,

今年没有，但是去年，我参加了哥伦比亚政治联盟，

写作课程比较难 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

It's also a scene of crossings, bridging past and future.

同样也是遍布着连接过去与未来的岔路口。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选