“爷爷能记住过去的事情，真是太神奇了。”玛蒂娜想。

"It's amazing," Martina thought, "how Grandpa can remember things from the past."

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我尽力不为过去的事情而多愁善感。

I'm trying not to be sentimental about the past.

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3到4岁时，儿童开始对自己过去的事情给出相当长且连贯的描述。

Between ages three and four, children begin to give fairly lengthy and cohesive descriptions of events in their past.

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Computers, the Internet, and communication devices are fundamental to financial progress and they make things possible that wouldn't have been possible before.

计算机,网络,通讯设备,是金融进步的基础,正是这些技术使得过去不可能的事情,如今变成了现实

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This is great when you want to express regret for something that you perhaps did not do.

当你想表达对一些过去没做成的事情感到后悔时，你可以使用这个句型。

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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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