不要将所有的时间用来谈论过去发生的事情。

Don't spend all of the time talking about what happened in the past.

youdao

我没有机会回到过去以改变过去发生的事情。

What I wouldn't give for a chance to go back and change the past.

youdao

可是在日本，人们似乎对过去发生的事情更感兴趣。

But in Japan, people seem more interested in what went before.

youdao

The president would spend at least a half hour going over what happened overnight, what the intelligence community was picking up about threats to the country.

总统至少要花半个小时,来了解过去一晚发生的事情，了解情报局选取的,可能威胁国家的信息。

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