He points to a big drop in the number of planned job cuts announced by employers over the past six months.

VOA: special.2010.07.02

I'm perfectly capable of understanding the past in and for itself without any contribution of my own, without, in short, any preconceptions."

我十分能够理解过去,而没有自己的贡献，简单点说就是没有任何的先入之见“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Use this pattern whenever you want to find out about the timing of an event in the past, present, or future.

当你想知道过去、现在或者未来某件事发生的时间时，你都可以使用这个句型。

When 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

In the past, numbers in the financial records of a company were written in red ink to show a loss.

VOA: special.2009.04.26

All I want to stress is that my discovery of her was a fatal consequence of that "princedom by the sea" in my tortured past.

我想强调的是，我对她的发现,乃是在扭曲的过去里建筑的那座海边王国的致命后果。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Randolph Roth studied homicide rates over the past four hundred years in parts of the United States and western Europe.

VOA: special.2009.12.19

Because the program is constantly revising its strategies, in light of what's worked and what hasn't worked in the past.

因为程序会不断依据过去,有效无效经验修改其策略

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

This group has been growing faster than any of the religious groups in America over the past twenty years.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

And so the breakdown that we've had in past terms are just under half of the students describe themselves as among those less comfortable just 10% over 10% among those more comfortable, in between.

在以往的学期里,仅有将近一半的学生,认为自己对电脑知识不太熟悉,认为自己比较熟悉电脑的人略多于，剩余的这些学生介于两者之间。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Bourke-White was no longer satisfied just to show the products of industry in her pictures, as she had in the past.

VOA: special.2009.05.17

The newspaper article just told the story of a home owner who had subscribed to this company in the past but failed to renew his subscription.

这则新闻对一个房主进行了报道,他曾经是这家公司的会员,但没有去续费。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Today we look up into the skies to explore the past and present of the tallest buildings in the world.

VOA: special.2010.03.31

In both movies, Magnificent Amberson and Citizen Kane, that sort of tragedy that changes the past. Now you have the reality which is sort of bleaker.

在两部电影中，《安巴逊家族》和,《公民凯恩》，都有种悲剧的概念,改变了过去，现在你觉得,现实有点黯淡。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

In the United States, smoking rates are down from the past, but cigarettes still cause about one-fifth of all deaths.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

He is independent in a way that nobody who was not a king or an aristocrat in the past has ever been -- a new kind of man, the backbone of the polis as it emerges.

他是如此的独立以至于,前无古人后无来者,一个全新的人,它不断地发展并成为城邦制的脊梁

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Gannett,the nation's largest newspaper publisher, has cut more than one-fifth of its jobs in the past two years.

VOA: special.2009.03.21

We've done some research on this in the past and found that men and women differ in the response to that question, and of course, the level of stress matters and even the type of stress people are feeling.

我们曾经就此做过一些研究,发现男人和女人对该问题的回答不一样,当然,压力的程度会有一定影响,而且人们所面对的压力类型也会有影响

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

The Academy's goals are to bring attention to the great work of poets in the past and today.

VOA: special.2010.04.05

And archaeology supports this picture of merging of peoples, a picture of the merging of peoples, rather than conquest or even large-scale immigration, because the new settlements in this period show such continuity with the past, not a complete break, not the initiation of something radically new.

考古学肯定了民族的融合，多个民族相融合的图景，而不是征服或者是大规模的移民，因为这一时期新的定居表明,与过去的连续继承，而不是完全的断裂，不是完全的新的开始。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The Global Heritage Fund says over seventy percent of the environment in this area has been lost in the past ten years.

VOA: special.2010.11.03

Not with this girl, this girl is perfect. But in the past, I've had lots of problems with roommates.

和这个女孩没吵过，她太完美了。但在过去，我和室友之间存在很多问题。

布鲁克林的房价 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

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

VOA: special.2011.01.08

At the very moment that Woolf advises women readers to look past Milton's bogey, she finds herself in the peculiar position of echoing the poetry of John Milton.

伍尔夫劝女性读者不去理会,弥尔顿的惑众谣言的时候，发现自己处境尴尬,因为她需要附和弥尔顿的诗歌。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

But Congress has put more into the budget of the national park system in the past three years.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

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

In fact,Mississippi has had the highest rate of obese adults in each of the past five years.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

Whether you measure it in terms of dollars of value added or in terms of returns, Yale has the best record among colleges and universities for the past two decades.

不管是从增值的角度,还是从收益率的角度衡量,过去20年里,耶鲁的表现是所有高校中最好的

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

In the past,the six thousand members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voted for the one film they liked best.

VOA: special.2010.03.01

- Part of the compulsion to repeat is, in a certain sense-- part of the hope of mastery in the compulsion to repeat is to keep up the kind of vigilance which you failed to have in the past and therefore fail to ward it off.

所以强迫性重复一部分可能是由于-,一种希望，人在重复回忆的时候,感觉可以保护自己，控制不让灾难再次发生,以便不会再次失足。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

In the absence of that, the states have actually taken action, over the past, maybe 5, 10 years

在这种法律空缺的情况下，各个州在过去的五到十年间已经采取了行动，

全球变暖与国力 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人