We are guided by a belief that good things will happen for us in the future if we take proper care of the present.

我们被这样一种信念指引着：如果我们过好现在的生活，未来就会有好事发生。

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Indeed, the whole exercise is a warning of the risks of extrapolating the future from present trends.But, on present trends, things do, indeed, look hopeful.

诚然，这一现象也提示着我们从当前趋势推测未来不无风险，但当前来看，形势的确大好。

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Unable to live in the present, man amasses things which weigh and subjugate him; the feeling of the future is a calamity to him.

因为无法活在当下，所以人们总被将要到来的事物逐渐压垮直至屈服；人们对未来的恐惧如同一场巨大的灾难。

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They've clustered books Genesis through Esther,which tell of things past; the books of Job through the Song of Songs or the Song of Solomon contain wisdom that applies to the present;and then the prophetic books, Isaiah to Malachi, contain or tell of things future.

创世纪》从《以斯帖记》开始讲过去;,《约伯记》从雅歌也叫所罗门之歌开始,讲现世可以运用的智慧，然后是《先知书》,从《以塞亚记》到《玛拉基书》，讲述未来的事。

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The Guild spokeswoman said the event celebrated "the creative cultural past, present and future of all things northern".

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