Always staring at something in the past, there would be no great future.

总盯着了不起的过去，就不会有了不起的将来。

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You have something to be hopeful about now instead of being sad about something in the past.

你有什么事情是有希望的是对过去的东西现在不是难过。

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If you did something in the past but you no longer do it now, you can use the verb phrase . . used to . . / . . used to . . e.g.

如果你在过去做某事但是你现在不做了，你可以用动词短语. . used to .

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You use this pattern whenever you want to express that you have experienced something in the past previously.

每当你想表达你之前已经经历过某事的时候，你就可以用这个句型。

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And as pointed out in your reading, the characters all seem to deal with something about the past.

中都有所体现，在你的阅读材料中也提到了,戏中角色似乎都在处理关于过去的一些问题。

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And Jenner, because he was a trained physician, because he knew something about the scientific method, did something that these more ancient healers had not done in the past, was that he wrote down what he did.

而詹纳,因为他是个受过训练的医生,懂得一些科学方法,他做了那些古老的医生们没有做的事,就是记录了自己的所作所为

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This was a year where something was actually achieved, and Alfred Nobel himself in his will underlined the prize should go to someone who had achieved something in the past year.

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"Even if Google comes up with an airtight filtering system, that doesn't moot the charge that they've done something improper in the past, " says Boehm, who has been an outspoken critic of Google's intellectual property policies.

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