过去我已经取得了应有的成功。

I've had my fair share of success in the past.

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过去我常去那里。

I used to go there often in the past.

《牛津词典》

过去我父母常以不让我看电视来惩罚我。

My parents used to punish me by not letting me watch TV.

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I'm perfectly capable of understanding the past in and for itself without any contribution of my own, without, in short, any preconceptions."

我十分能够理解过去,而没有自己的贡献，简单点说就是没有任何的先入之见“

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In fact, I used to go to church in Harlem. And it was... We would walk to and from church.

事实上，我过去经常去哈莱姆的教堂。它……我们会从家里步行到教堂，然后再从教堂步行回家。

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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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