It is a tricky business because true reconciliation means confronting the ghosts of the past.

此事相当棘手，原因在于实现真正的和解，意味着直面过去的不愉快。

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Perhaps I was hoping that the ghosts of its progressive past would keep us fighting for tomorrow.

也许，我希望《阿肯色州公报》过去的进步主义灵魂将敦促我们为未来而奋斗。

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I learned, too, of reason-that judicious combination of thought and feeling that enables me to take more responsibility for myself and others, that allows me to slay the ghosts of the past.

我也明白了，理智正是思想与情感最明智的结合，它能够让我为自己与他人承担起更多的责任，驱除往昔纠缠我的幽灵。

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East Timor's leaders, many of them former rebels who fought Indonesia, see reconciliation with the former occupier as more crucial for the future of the country than judicial action to bury the ghosts of past violence.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

But there are a variety of things about people who can communicate from the dead or ghosts or seances or what have you.

但仍有很多关于,有人能和死人,或鬼魂,或者降神会交流之类的传言

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The caretakers of the various cemeteries involved report that no ghosts walk.

墓园的看门人提到,没有鬼魂在里行走。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Every day he looks out his office windows and sees the ghosts of wrecked firms.

FORBES: Magazine Article

We have an opportunity to exorcise the ghosts of that day and put it behind us.

BBC: Russel Arnold's column

Still, the new generation of modern diesels could bury the ghosts of the past.

WSJ: Are Diesels Poised for a Comeback?