它并不是由于某种原因而在过去几百年里减少的庞大人口的残余。

It's not a remnant of some huge population that is dwindled in the last few hundred years for some reason.

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如果用图表进行展示的话，这些变化呈现出来的曲线很像大家熟悉的曲棍球杆：以往数千年都没什么变化，而在过去的几十年内却突飞猛涨。

If represented graphically, the curve for all these changes looks rather like that well-known hockey stick: with little change over millennia and a dramatic upswing over the past decades.

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然而在过去的五年里，多亏一档电视真人秀节目，交际舞的人气一路飙升。

For the past five years though, the popularity of ballroom dancing has soared thanks to a reality TV show.

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We want the bad behind us, not the bad in front of us.

我们希望坏事已经过去，而不是在未来。

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So only one thing what I bought there, and I'm buying presents usually in Chinatown,

所以过去我只在那里买过一样东西，而现在我经常在唐人街买礼物，

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Everything that we had thought that Milton was telling us in the lyric present -- telling us directly, now -- suddenly gets shoved back into the narrative past: "thus sang the uncouth swain." The past tense is important there.

我们想过的弥尔顿在这首抒情诗里,直接告诉我们的所有事，现在，都突然在过去的旁白中一涌而现了：,“吟唱着粗鄙的青年人“，这里的过去时态很重要。

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