(" Spain "was a geographic term meaning Iberian Peninsula, not the present-day state called Spain).

(“西班牙”是个地理术语，指的是伊比利亚半岛，不是今天的西班牙国家)。

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There are those who say "I think it will be better if we use the future and not the present tense."

还有些人说：“我认为使用将来时，而不是现在时会更好一些。”

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I do not like the present day.

我不喜欢现在的日子。

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But I am not content with the present C not when there are workers who are still out of jobs, families who still cannot pay their bills."

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At the core of it is a belief in progress, something that was essentially not present among the Greeks.

其核心就是对于进步的信仰,实质上说这在希腊文化中是不存在的

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And you will not use it for talking about stories or information in the present.

你也不会用它表示当前的情况与信息。

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The trendline over the entire postwar decades is around 50 percent, not the present 35 percent.

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Originally located downtown in Georgia's capital, its course was actually the nearby East Lake Golf Club, not the present-day development in Johns Creek north of the city.

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All of us are going to have to be pulling together and refocusing on the future and not just the present.

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