We know that you have a plan and a purpose for our marriage, and we invite you to forgive the past self-centeredness, come into our lives and relationship and direct our steps from now on.

我们知道您对我们的婚姻有着规划和期待，我们请您宽恕我们过去的自私，进入我们的生活并从今往后引导我们。

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My past self can be judged just as another person can be judged.

对我过去的自己也可以加以判断，正如对别人可以加以判断一样。

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We just did some basic breathing techniques and what's called guided imagery where you picture yourself being your true self, from what works in your past, what feels right in your past.

我们只是进行了基本的呼吸技巧训练,和所谓的意向引导,你从过去生效的例子中，从过去感觉对的例子中，描绘出真正的自我。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

The most excellent princes of the past were those like Moses, he tells us, who brought tables of law and prepared people for self-government.

历史上最杰出的君王是摩西那样的,他告诉我们，摩西带来了刻有法律的石板,而后让人们据此来自治。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Now there is an irony there, because without the myth, we lose out on a great many worth to survive With myth, taken literally, we are self-fullfilling the past.

现在又多了一层讽刺的涵义，因为没了神话，很多人会觉得失去了活下去的价值,而要是我们按字面意思理解神话，我们就能填补过去的空白。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

So perhaps his argument is with his past self.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney,

That is disingenuous, given their past self-assuredness.

ECONOMIST: Securitisation

Ultimately, the only way out of this looming crisis lies with the boomer gentry doing something totally out of character: getting past their self-interest and self-love for the good of the next generation.

FORBES: New Geographer