The full name for the condition is erythema ab igne, and used to be common in people exposed to heat as part of their work, such as bakers and silversmiths.

它为条件的全名叫火激红斑，过去人们暴露在高温中，这是他们工作的一部分，例如面包师和银匠。

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Public saunas used to be common in bigger cities but now that most new apartments have a sauna of their own, public saunas have decreased dramatically in number.

公共浴室在大城市中很常见，而现在大部分的新公寓都各自配有了桑拿浴室，公共桑拿的数量正在急剧减少。

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Cigarette smoking used to be more common among affluent people.

吸烟过去在富人中更为普遍。

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A more common way to deal with weeds is to control them enough so that the land can be used for planting.

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This is less of a problem in modern life then it used to be, but because things are supplemented and fortified-- overly so in some cases-- but still the deficiencies are less common then they used to be.

相比过去,这在现代社会中已不太多见,因为如今很多食物有人工添加的微量元素,有些甚至是过度添加了,但相比过去,缺乏微量元素已不那么常见了

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It used to be common in Caesarean sections (it dopes the mother but not the baby) but other drugs have superseded it.

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It used to be common practice in software to offer what was called an "expert mode" that simplified interfaces and allowed users to employ shortcuts to get what they needed.

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It used to be fairly common, though no one's done it in almost 27 years.

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