My father was a veteran of the Korean War, and it really represents the future and the past and present."

VOA: special.2009.11.14

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“

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because my uncle has lived there for the past 30 years or something, and

我的叔叔在那里生活了将近30年。

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"I brought in two mountain bikes that my wife and I have ridden for the past ten years.

VOA: special.2009.11.16

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。

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At one time in the past, my brother had been in love with this woman.

VOA: special.2009.07.19

What I wanted to show you was a clip that actually my daughter brought to my attention just this past weekend.

我想给你们看个链接,事实上,是我女儿让我注意到的,就是上个礼拜

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I was running past gravestones on my daily run.

VOA: standard.2009.04.21

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。

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