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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We use this pattern to emphasize a point that has possibly been expressed in the past.

我们用这个句型来强调过去曾经表达过的一种观点。

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If this theory you might say of sort of cataclysmic change is true we cannot rule out the possibility that a constitution like ours or even identical to ours existed at some point in the ancient past in the far distant past that Aristotle knew about.

你们可能认为，如果这个理论,即剧烈变革的理论为真,我们就不能排除,像美国宪法,或相同于美国之其它现存宪法,早在远古。

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So this is an example of Biomedical Engineering, one that is well integrated into our society to the point that we've probably all got a picture like this somewhere in our past, and where we understand the physical principles that allow us to use it.

故而,这成为生物医学工程的一个实例,这类技术已经很好的融入了我们的社会,因为也许我们每个人都拍过,这样的X光片,正是因为我们懂得了,相应的物理学原理才能去运用这项技术

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