Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

记忆不是过去的钥匙，而是未来的钥匙。

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

我尽力不为过去的事情而多愁善感。

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It's not healthy the way she clings to the past.

她那种沉湎于过去的态度不明智。

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"In the past two years, candidates are not seeing social media as a place that we have to keep private from prospective employers but as a tool that will assist in my search."

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But, Nabokov's relationship to this modernist past is not just the burlesque that he visits on Eliot, is not just this complicated attraction and dis-identification that he works on with Proust.

但是，纳博科夫和现代主义者的关系不只是,他对艾略特的滑稽模仿，也不只是和普鲁斯特,复杂的吸引和不认同。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Because we have, as you've hopefully realized, made a concerted effort over the past several years to really reach out to students on this campus who might not otherwise have considered this as a field of exploration, just a one semester course, or even ultimately a concentration or minor.

你们也认识到了，因为我们，在过去几年中作出了共同的努力,来影响这个校园的学生们,但是某些学生可能认为这并不是一个探索性的领域,而只是学期中的一个课程而已，或者只是一门主修或选修课程。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

We all want to look to the future and not to the past.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Betraying Free Vietnam

The second reason for worry is that violence has increased again over the past year, though not to the levels of the past.

ECONOMIST: Colombia's presidential campaign

But then again, much of the present talk about ungovernability relates not to the recent past but to the immediate future.

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