It should be clear to everyone that we will not repeat the mistakes of the past.

VOA: standard.2009.12.05

But, Nabokov's relationship to this modernist past is not just the burlesque that he visits on Eliot, is not just this complicated attraction and dis-identification that he works on with Proust.

但是，纳博科夫和现代主义者的关系不只是,他对艾略特的滑稽模仿，也不只是和普鲁斯特,复杂的吸引和不认同。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

So can be changed slightly, depending on tense, past, present or future as well as whether or not you want to ask a question.

因此这个句型要根据不同的时态，如过去时、现在时和将来时，作出一点调整；另外也会根据是否是问句而略有不同。

There is 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Seeming not to understand, the Afghans wave cars past the checkpoint without searching any of them.

VOA: standard.2009.12.13

It's not occured to me that we shouldn't think fondly or even sort of exaggerate our past.

我也不认为,我们应该喜欢,或者甚至夸张我们的过去。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

"We're probably,it looks now, like we'll continue to bump along maybe even have some bad months and unemployment is not going to recover as it has in some past recessions."

VOA: standard.2010.01.15

Because we have, as you've hopefully realized, made a concerted effort over the past several years to really reach out to students on this campus who might not otherwise have considered this as a field of exploration, just a one semester course, or even ultimately a concentration or minor.

你们也认识到了，因为我们，在过去几年中作出了共同的努力,来影响这个校园的学生们,但是某些学生可能认为这并不是一个探索性的领域,而只是学期中的一个课程而已，或者只是一门主修或选修课程。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

The president talked not just about Turkey's future but its past, alluding to perhaps the most controversial moment in its history - the widespread killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks in 1915.

VOA: standard.2009.04.06

That is to say, someone with sufficient political audacity to create their own authority, who has not simply received it from the past, but to create their own authority.

也就是说,他或她必是一位具有足够政治勇气,且能创造其自身威信的人，而非单纯只是接受过去的遗产，更是创造其自身的威信。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

President Obama is said to have stated that, while the past must be understood, he is not there to argue history - and that it is time to "move on" to confront today's challenges.

VOA: standard.2009.04.18

That's not what Welles wanted He wanted to examine the myth of the past, even the rest of being a little nostalgic about the whole stuff, and to build the work of art, so we can live with that.

这不是威尔斯想要做的,他想检验过去之谜，甚至对这一切,和创作艺术作品，有一点怀念,所以我们可以生活在他的艺术里。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

"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