(MUSIC IN A CHURCH) In a church where Martin Luther King preached more than 50 years ago, President Obama talked about the past, the present and the future.

VOA: standard.2010.01.17

Israel's past and present and future generations form a collective entity, Israel, that collectively assents to the covenant.

犹太人的过去，现在，未来形成了一个共同的存在，全体犹太人都赞成这个契约。

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So, we are now going to do one standard problem where we will convince ourselves we can apply this formulas and predict the future given the present.

我们接下来将去研究一个标准问题,通过这个问题,我们能让自己相信,我们能利用这些式子,根据现状,预测未来

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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

The romance heroine is often threatened with rape, but by her cleverness or by good luck or a concatenation of forces ; she can always invariably avert that tragedy; and by the end of the work she can present herself to her future husband as a virgin.

这位传奇的女英雄总是被强奸所威胁，但是多亏了她的机敏，或是走好运，或是一连串的军队暴力,她总是能避免悲剧;,在作品的最终,她呈现在未来丈夫面前的仍是一个处女。

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Their stories tell a lot about the past,present and future of professional soccer in America.

VOA: special.2010.06.02

They've clustered books Genesis through Esther,which tell of things past; the books of Job through the Song of Songs or the Song of Solomon contain wisdom that applies to the present;and then the prophetic books, Isaiah to Malachi, contain or tell of things future.

创世纪》从《以斯帖记》开始讲过去;,《约伯记》从雅歌也叫所罗门之歌开始,讲现世可以运用的智慧，然后是《先知书》,从《以塞亚记》到《玛拉基书》，讲述未来的事。

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"The Maronites have never had, and will never have, any site like the Qadisha Valley, in the future, to present the Maronitism as a culture and as a civilized community ...

VOA: standard.2010.08.05

So the product of Newtonian mechanics of predicting the future given the present, has got two parts, and one is called kinematics and the other is called dynamics.

所以牛顿力学,基于现状对未来的预测,包含两个部分,一部分被称为运动学,而另一部分被称为动力学

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You'll see enough things that will confound you, but right now I want to demonstrate a simple paradigm of what it means to know the present and what it means to say this is what the future behavior will be.

你将会发现很多物理问题会让你困扰,而眼下我会举一个例子来阐述,什么叫了解现在,什么又叫预测未来

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