Joanna Dovan from the mayor's office says it is true that the city now has its lowest population of the past ten years.

VOA: special.2009.07.13

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 some have noted, one scholar in particular has noted that The struggle with the angel is the final purging of the unsavory qualities of character that marked Jacob's past career.

一些人也意识到，特别是一位学者发现,与天使的斗争是最终净化,净化雅各布过去生涯中不体面的品质。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Maybe that is why the city's saying is "Our Future Is Our Past."

VOA: special.2009.06.01

In Virginia Woolf's terms, Satan is trying to look past God's bogey.

用佛吉尼亚·伍尔夫的话说，撒旦是想无视上帝的惑众妖言。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"I think it's an area that has seen its share of economic woes in the past, but because of foresight and investment is now renewed giving birth to renewed industries that are creating the jobs of the future.

VOA: special.2009.07.13

According to the personality view, what makes somebody in the future the same person as somebody in the past is if it's part of the same ongoing personality.

根据人格理论，将来之某人与过去之某人为同一人,条件是拥有相同持续人格中的部分。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But that is changing. In the past decade the number of cyclos on the city's streets has declined sharply.

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

But the message isn't that optimistic sort of that life is short, enjoy it. It's more that the past is no good to us and we can't rekindle the past.

但是其所传达的信息并不是乐观的，不是那种,生命短暂，尽情享受的想法，此外,过去于我们无益，我们也无法使昔日之火复燃。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

Saturday's attack on the military headquarters is the third major terrorist strike in Pakistan in the past week.

VOA: standard.2009.10.11

It has passed and it is past. It's part of the past.

都已经过去了，成为了过去的一部分。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

As British deaths in Afghanistan have edged past the number killed in Iraq, Gordon Brown's approach to Afghanistan is being attacked on two fronts.

VOA: standard.2009.07.13

And notice by the by, that when we make choices about our future, from the hedonist point of view, at least, there's no particular need to dwell a whole lot on the past, because what's done is done.

需要注意的是，当我们,为未来作选择时，起码享乐主义者认为，不必过分着眼于过去，因为过去的已经过去。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Gibbs said the tape is still being analyzed, but said the message is consistent with those heard in the past from al-Qaida threatening the U.S.

VOA: standard.2009.06.03

But at an event at the White House with past and present American Olympians, the president made clear his support for Chicago's bid is strong.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

"And the second issue is that behind NATO they see the United States and U.S.power and they remain as convinced as in the past that it is in the U.S.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

Japan is the world's second largest economy, but it has suffered more than Over the past year, it has suffered a deep recession, although the economy now appears to be growing slowly now.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

A newly released history of 20th Century Russia, written by a team of 45 scholars and edited by historian Andrei Zubov, includes a statement that much of the country's recent past is painfully difficult to study, which is why many refuse to do so.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25