他陷入了一种对过去的渴望而不能自拔。

He was overwhelmed by a longing for times past.

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如果你被问题包围而无法停止对过去的思考，尝试专注于此时此刻吧。

If you are surrounded by problems and cannot stop thinking about the past, try to focus on the present moment.

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有足够的时间来抹掉他对过去的记忆。

There was time enough to obliterate memories of how things once were for him.

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All I want to stress is that my discovery of her was a fatal consequence of that "princedom by the sea" in my tortured past.

我想强调的是，我对她的发现,乃是在扭曲的过去里建筑的那座海边王国的致命后果。

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And for better or for worse we've done a lot of damage over the past few years for this stuff.

过去的几年，无论好坏,我们都已经对这个东西造成很大的损坏了。

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But at one point he just says to her, "Me and you Sethe, we got too much yesterday, we need more tomorrow."

但是那时他对她说,"我和你,塞丝,过去经历的太多,我们要更好的拥抱明天"

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