Though he spoke of the past, I suspected his mind was on the future, my future, and the long shadow this night would cast over it.

虽然他的语气是过去式，我怀疑他当时想到的是将来，我的将来。在那个晚上，长长的阴影凝固在我整个人生里。

youdao

Over the past decade this industry has recorded some of the sharpest declines in profits and its future looks increasingly bleak.

过去十年，最陡峭的下行曲线出现在本行业的利润报表上，而它们的未来，则越发黯淡无光。

youdao

Indeed the past must be changed to prevent the energy and trauma from over-bleeding into the present and future, in linear terms.

事实上，必须改变过去以防止能量和创伤因过度伤痛而延伸到线性时间的现在和未来。

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The promise of the future over the poison of the past.

CNN

Today it's Plaid Cymru - a party with the newest leader on the block in Leanne Wood, and the party that's done the most thinking about its future over the past year.

BBC: State of Play 2 - Plaid Cymru

However, as we consider ways to strengthen the system for the future in light of what we have learned over the past year, we should critically examine capital regulations, provisioning policies, and other rules applied to financial institutions to determine whether, collectively, they increase the procyclicality of credit extension beyond the point that is best for the system as a whole.

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