If you did something in the past but you no longer do it now, you can use the verb phrase . . used to . . / . . used to . . e.g.

如果你在过去做某事但是你现在不做了，你可以用动词短语. . used to .

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Questioner: How can you say it is trivial and irrelevant? We've been saying all along that the past is the issue, and now you say it is irrelevant.

发问者：你怎么能说它是琐碎的不相干的？我们一直在说过去就是问题所在，现在你说它是不相干的。

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Now, can you look at all this movement of the past, with all its traditions, without wanting to be free of it, change it, modify it or run away from it - simply observe it without any reaction?

现在，你能不能看着过去的这整个运动，及其所有的传统，而不想从中解脱，不想改变它、调整它或者逃避它——只是观察它而没有任何反应？

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You can only make sense of Labour now, including the way that it campaigns, if you look to its past.

BBC: Philip Gould: What 'permanent campaign'?

It's available now from the Windows store, and you can catch our video overview past the break to see for yourself!

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