She is very touchy about her past.

她对自己的过去非常敏感。

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She kept her past secret from us all.

她对我们所有人都避而不谈她的过去。

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She's told some whoppers about her past.

关于她的过去，她说了些谎话。

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She decides to marry a man from her past whom she has always loved.

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So this is a subtle thing because you think about the current election, there's a debate about whether Hilary Clinton, for example, can choose right now to be at the center of the democratic party given her past history of votes, for example, on the Iraq War.

这是个微妙的事情,因为你联想到现在的选举,举个例子,关于希拉里·克林顿能否选择,作为民主党竞选中间派参选就颇有争议,考虑到她的参选记录,例如在伊拉克战争中

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All I want to stress is that my discovery of her was a fatal consequence of that "princedom by the sea" in my tortured past.

我想强调的是，我对她的发现,乃是在扭曲的过去里建筑的那座海边王国的致命后果。

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Provisions like these have been a central feature of her past proposals for healthcare reform.

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"She's clearly a very bright individual who learns from her past mistakes, " Collins said.

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This is a logical step up based on her past experiences, as she makes clear below.

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