What's wrong with focusing on the past or future?

把精力放在过去和未来又有什么错？

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Any talk of residuals, past or future, was simply a nonstarter.

任何关于剩余报酬的谈判，不管是过去的还是将来的，希望都微乎其微。

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For date fields, you can also specify whether the date should be past or future as used above.

对于日期字段，您还可以指定日期应当是过去还是将来，正如上面使用的。

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Or patients might be advised to think less about the past and more about the present and the future.

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If you focus on some of the minutia of a site like this, you know, it's useful to be able to jump to a particular date whether in the future or in the past.

如果你关注像这样一个网站的一些细节，你会发现，若能跳转到,不论过去还是将来的一个特定日期，那将是很有用的。

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Use this pattern whenever you want to find out about the timing of an event in the past, present, or future.

当你想知道过去、现在或者未来某件事发生的时间时，你都可以使用这个句型。

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When some of our attention is occupied by the past or future, we prevent ourselves from focusing on the present.

FORBES: Stop Distracting Me!

The duplication paradox emerges when time travelers exist in the same time and place as their past or future selves.

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He ran down the great wastes of the roaring forties, reaching a state of grace in a world, he felt, with no past or future.

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