This shows how long it was before we deemed it necessary to make sure that all our children could share in the knowledge accumulated by the 'happy few' during the past centuries.

这说明，经过了多么漫长的时间之后，我们才认识到，有必要确保我们的孩子享有多少个世纪以来由‘少数幸运者’所积累起来的知识。

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It was a resurrection of our past: I'd given her another teddy bear a long time ago.

那是我们过去的复活：一段时间以前我再送了一只泰迪熊给她。

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Most American worries focused on the integrity of our nation's rapidly aging nuclear power plants, many of which are still churning through uranium long past the reactors' original expected lifetimes.

很多美国人都担心，关注着美国快速老化的核电站，很多都已经超过了反应堆当初的设计使用寿命，但仍在通过铀裂变发电。

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We have been special in history and we have also been different, but we have, in many respects, lost our way, and it is long past time to reclaim our souls.

CNN: 2012 winner must unite America on ideals

Such is the brilliance of contemporary medical science, at least in our privileged realm, that we can be kept breathing long past the point where our existence is anything save miserable - miserable for us, miserable for our loved ones, and miserable for those who have been appointed by either by the state or a private health plan to minister unto us.

BBC: A Point of View: The biggest decision

Portraits are central to what makes photography so compelling, offering us a glimpse of our own past, drawing up long-forgotten moments or a glance at the lives of others.

BBC: Portrait Salon projection