It is a relationship that maybe was strategic in the past, but its probably downgraded to a more ordinary bilateral relationship."

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

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。

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And you'll use "If I were" to talk about yourself in the present in relationship to the past.

你可以用“If I were”来比较现在的你和过去的你。

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". At Friday's opening ceremony, several leaders noted past grievances with the United States while also expressing hope for a more productive and respectful relationship under President Obama.

VOA: standard.2009.04.18

These patterns of "I've been" are so useful to say what you want to do in the future in relationship to the past.

当你想表达过去与你将来想做的事情之间的联系时，“I've been”句型特别有用，

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