He had studied hard obviously and had supposedly been preparing himself for his future career, and that would have been the career of a clergyman.

他显然学的很努力大概也为自己未来的,职业做了些准备，那就是当一名牧师。

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Use this pattern whenever you want to find out about the timing of an event in the past, present, or future.

当你想知道过去、现在或者未来某件事发生的时间时，你都可以使用这个句型。

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Insofar as it deprives you of a future that would have been bad, then death's not actually bad, it's actually good.

当它夺走你的,苦难的未来时，那么死亡其实不是坏事而是好事。

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So in the future, when you power up a terminal, a laptop, a PC, a netbook, or a cellphone, immediately, instantly, you see a box.

在未来，当你打开一个终端时，比如笔记本电脑，PC机，上网本，手机，马上就能看到一个搜索框。

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They were playing slaves and masters, and he was the master, and she was the slave. So, he's imagining their future and talking about it with Magda when they're older.

他们在扮演奴隶和主人，他是主人，她是奴隶，他正在想象他们的未来,当他们老了的时候他会跟Magda谈起今天的事。

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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。

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When I thought about what I wanted in survival, it wasn't enough that there be somebody in the distant future that be me.

当我思考生存的意义时，仅仅是未来某一时刻,有一个我是不足够的。

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