The chances are you will use the simple past and past progressive tenses a great deal in this kind of exchange.

你仔细听，然后告诉他/她你在业余时间所想做的事。 你就如此这般回答。 在这种交流中，你一般会大量使用一般现在时。

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The new concepts of the strong Markov property and rlaxed past progressive measurability on two-parameter processes are introduced in this paper.

引入了两指标过程的强马氏性和宽过去循序可测的新概念。

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Perhaps I was hoping that the ghosts of its progressive past would keep us fighting for tomorrow.

也许，我希望《阿肯色州公报》过去的进步主义灵魂将敦促我们为未来而奋斗。

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In the past, progressive administrations have not been noted for raising military outlays as overseas conflicts wound down.

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This notion has been floated in progressive policy circles in the past.

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