Chinese, on the other hand, does not oblige its speakers to specify the exact time of the action in this way, because the same verb form can be used for past, present or future actions.

而另一方面，说中文的人不必用这种方式道出某种行为的确切时间，因为同样的动词形式可以用来表达过去、现在或将来时态。

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Over the past decade, when big investors begin agitating in this way, share buybacks have soon followed, the report adds.

该报告表示，过去十年中，当大型投资者开始以这种方式开始煽动股市时，股份回购很快就随之出现了。

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Pacôme Révillon of Euroconsult says that in the past year more satellite projects were financed in this way than in the nine previous years.

欧洲咨询公司的帕科姆•雷维说，过去的一年这种方式筹措到的卫星项目经费比前九年都要多。

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So this is perhaps a site that some of you have spent way too much time on last year, if not in the past week or so, com this is isawyouharvard.com.

很多同学去年的时候,在这个网站上花费了很多时间，可能上周还玩了，这个网站的网址是isawyouharvard。

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And as I followed her, in this way, past the flower gardens, I realized that her movements were similar to mine, that she, too, was trying to protect something fragile, something that might fall and shatter into pieces, and that needed thus to be led toward a place where it could settle gently, something that she could not touch but could only guide with her gestures: the moon.

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And oil has always been this way in the past.

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In this way, the mistaken investments of the past eventually become inconsequential.

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