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

Gadamer believes that historicism forgets the possibility of being taught something by past-ness or otherness.

伽达默尔认为历史主义忘记了,我们会从过去性和他性中学到一些东西的可能性。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

I've had a previous past profession where I worked full-time.

我以前做一份全职的工作。

怡人的的汉普斯特德 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Mr.Hawass is often described as a colorful leader who has brought Egypt's long-ago past to the attention of the world.

VOA: special.2011.03.08

We've had super sections, as we called them this past week, really to -- available to anyone who would like to attend.

我们有超级零件，这是过去的这个星期所叫做的名字，实际上--对于想进入的任何人来说都是可用的。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

For the most part, the Louvre museum's collection does not extend past works made in the mid-nineteenth century.

VOA: special.2010.06.23

And that is the sort of psycho-analytic one, ascribing this sense of lost in the past, to the death of Welles's mother.

这里面也有一点心理分析的成分，将迷失在过去的感觉归因于，是威尔斯母亲的去世。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

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

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

He says up to seventy-five wild Kenyan lions may have died this way during the past five years.

VOA: special.2009.05.05

The most excellent princes of the past were those like Moses, he tells us, who brought tables of law and prepared people for self-government.

历史上最杰出的君王是摩西那样的,他告诉我们，摩西带来了刻有法律的石板,而后让人们据此来自治。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

In August,eighteen sixty-four, Lincoln wrote:"For some days past, it seems that this administration probably will not be re-elected.

VOA: special.2009.12.10

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

Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen said Friday that twenty-five thousand barrelswere captured in the past twenty-four hours.

VOA: special.2010.06.19

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

They sound much better than the CDs that have been sold for the past twenty-two years.

VOA: special.2009.09.18

We did have a large,short position in subprime mortgage-backed securities, which has paid off enormously for the University and really helped protect assets in the past nine months or a year.

我们确实曾持有很多,次级抵押担保证券的空头,它们为耶鲁赚了不少钱,并且在过去的9个月或1年间,为资产保值发挥了实在的作用

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

One sign is that the Standard & Poor's list of five hundred stocks has risen more than twenty-five percent in the past five weeks.

VOA: special.2009.04.17

If you will P-function again, if you have been P-functioning in the past and you will be P-functioning again in the future, P-functioning for person functioning, you will be P-functioning again in the future, then you're not dead.

只要你还可能再度拥有人格功能性，以前有过人格功能性,以后也会有人格功能性，人格功能性就是作为人的各种功能，你将来能够再次拥有人格功能性，你就没有死。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The same breed has won that honor for the past eighteen years -- the Labrador retriever.

VOA: special.2009.02.23

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

But the past few weeks have been exceptionally busy, even for the home-building,peace-making, disease-battling former leader.

VOA: special.2010.10.15

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

In the past, this expression was used as an argument to re-elect a president, especially during a time when the country was at war.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

So, imagine growing up in a place like that where the past was so-- was written not only in the death of people that you knew, because everybody you knew died basically.

所以想像在这种地方长大,那种历史真是,不光写在那些你认识的死者上,因为你认识的基本上都死了

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Finally,in April, eighteen sixty-three, Grant gave up all ideas of getting past Vicksburg without a fight.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

So these names, they don't really make any sense why they're called past s p and f, and it turns out that it comes from spectroscopy terms that are pre-quantum mechanics where, for example, this is called the sharp line, I think the principle, the diffuse, and the fundamental.

看到这些名字，你会发现,它们为什么叫s，p，f是没什么道理的，事实上,它们来源于,量子力学之前的光谱学中的术语，例如，它们分别叫做锐线，我认为是主线，漫射和基本。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

Sixty-five presidential historians judged the past forty-two American leaders based on ten qualities of leadership.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

I'm sure some of you have dealt with electrophoresis gels in the past and it's really just a slab of something like Jell-O where you can put a sample at one end of the Jell-O, your sample of fragmented DNA.

我相信在座肯定有些已经接触过电泳凝胶,真的挺像一块板状果冻的,你可以把一段样本放在"果冻"的一端,你的DNA片段样本

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Somehow this is skipped past, that--the sobs in the night.

某种程度上这是被跳过的过去，就是夜晚的抽泣。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选