Removing items associated with past memories or lives frees us up to stop living in the past and start living in the present.

抛开和过去的记忆或生活相关的东西，让自己停止活在过去，自由的开始现在的生活。

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House is our spiritual belonging full of our past memories, and shall be by no means given up regardless of the amount of compensation for it.

家是每个人的精神归宿地，充满了人生记忆。这是人们不会让渡的财富，无论有怎样的经济补偿。

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The incident woke memories of his past sufferings.

这件事唤起了他对往昔苦难的回忆。

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We also asked about memories of past holidays.

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It's no comfort to me to be told I will survive,because after all, the soul is the key to personal identity,if there's no similar personality, no memories,no beliefs,no retrievable memories of past lives.

能这样存活下去对我来说毫无安慰，因为说到底，灵魂是个人认同感的关键，而如果没有与前世相似的人格，记忆和信仰。

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So, when we talk about memory, for instance, we'll talk about disorders in memory, including some disorders that keep you from forming new memories as well as disorders of amnesia where you forget the past.

比如说,当我们讨论记忆的时候,我们会讨论记忆障碍,包括了使你无法形成新鲜记忆的一些障碍,以及遗忘过去记忆的遗忘症障碍

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But for me my primitive sense tends to evoke past memories of the "good old days".

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For the uninitiated, the Animus is a machine that allows the user to relive past memories of their ancestors like they were experiencing the moments for themselves.

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Nevertheless, the separatists continue stoking memories of past repressions to justify demands for still more self-government.

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