You can't understand the present and future without looking at the past.

不研究过去就无法了解现在和未来。

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Many people avoid looking at the past, because they do not want to be troubled by it.

许多人避免回顾过去，因为他们不希望被过去所困扰。

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If you get too caught up on the how, when, or what, you will go back to looking at the past or your current situation and how it's not possible based on what you already know.

如果你过度纠结于如何经历，何时经历或者是经历什么，你会回首过去和你眼下的状况并且基于此的不可能是由于你所了解的。

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It may have been true or maybe not, but it made people start looking at the past, what really happened between 1940 and 1945, or '44, end of '44, what really happened.

也许是真的也许是假的,但是让人们开始回首往事,在1940年到1945年间到底发生了什么,或者44年,44年末,到底发生了什么

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Do you think you're being guilty yourself of looking at the past and saying that will always be the same?

BBC: Money Box - Saturday 30 December 2000

But there is another, less gloomy, way of looking at the past few months, which Mr Chote will also surely be considering.

BBC: George Osborne must weigh supply against demand

Baker feels the current drop has been overdone, and, looking at the past decade, Baker noted that every time shares of AMR Corp.

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