It is time to bury the hatchet and forget about what has happened in the past.

是言归于好并忘记过去发生的事的时候了。

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The notion is that people have failed to detect the massive changes which have happened in the ocean because they have been looking back only a relatively short time into the past.

这种观点认为，人们之所以没有察觉到海洋中发生的巨大变化，是因为他们用于回顾过去的时间相对较短。

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Dear Annie: One of my goals in the coming year is to spend more time with my wife and kids, whom I've badly neglected over the past few months because of work.

亲爱的安妮：我明年的目标之一就是想花更多的时间和我的妻子和小孩呆在一起，而过去的几个月我因为工作严重忽略了他们。

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The group says less time passes for an earthquake shock wave to reach a measuring instrument than in the past.

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So this is perhaps a site that some of you have spent way too much time on last year, if not in the past week or so, com this is isawyouharvard.com.

很多同学去年的时候,在这个网站上花费了很多时间，可能上周还玩了，这个网站的网址是isawyouharvard。

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In the past, this expression was used as an argument to re-elect a president, especially during a time when the country was at war.

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So, somewhere along the line between now and November, I've got to make a decision about what is more important for me to make a decision based on the stances that I advocate in the past or for the first time in my life I'm going to contradict myself and just throw everything out the one that I advocated and believed in.

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The Wildcats have the most wins in school history and have reached the regional semifinals for the third time in the past four seasons.

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The phaseout won't be completed until 2006 or so, but for the second time in the past decade the once-famous marque will disappear, possibly this time forever.

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