We came up with a back story between the two of us about what things had gone on in the past and why she was so dedicated to him, so loyal and hurt for him so badly."

VOA: standard.2010.06.20

Everything that we had thought that Milton was telling us in the lyric present -- telling us directly, now -- suddenly gets shoved back into the narrative past: "thus sang the uncouth swain." The past tense is important there.

我们想过的弥尔顿在这首抒情诗里,直接告诉我们的所有事，现在，都突然在过去的旁白中一涌而现了：,“吟唱着粗鄙的青年人“，这里的过去时态很重要。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Yeah, over the past 2 years I've been back and forth in Brazil.

是，过去两年我来来回回去了巴西好多次。

我来自阿拉斯加 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"They stress over and over again in domestic propaganda, 'we are not going back to the six party talks.' Now I realize that North Korea has said in the past has said in the past, it ain't coming back, and then it comes back anyway,".

VOA: standard.2009.05.26

He said that for me that the myth of the past is a golden age, that he always harking back to occur in Grand Detour in Illinois.

他说对于他来说,过去之谜就是一段黄金时间，就是他经常,出现在伊利诺伊州Grand，Detour时。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

"It was like a giant jigsaw puzzle and the more we started to unearth and peel back the onion of who this guy was and what happened to him in the past and trying to truly understand the reason why he would be so obsessed with a specific case once we start to uncover these things about him we realized that once we explain one set of circumstances we needed to go even further with another set of circumstances."

VOA: standard.2010.02.27