Mr.Hawass is often described as a colorful leader who has brought Egypt's long-ago past to the attention of the world.

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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。

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So some have noted, one scholar in particular has noted that The struggle with the angel is the final purging of the unsavory qualities of character that marked Jacob's past career.

一些人也意识到，特别是一位学者发现,与天使的斗争是最终净化,净化雅各布过去生涯中不体面的品质。

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His mantra should have been: What's past is past, but God help any players guilty of future wrongdoing.

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It reflects a formula that is used to compute wage and salary increases, and is lower than it's been in the past because inflation is lower than it's been in the past, and so follows from that observation.

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What this lookalike of a Star Wars battle station has to do with Tokyo's past is a mystery.

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