In sum, the data revolution is giving us wonderful ways to understand the present and the past.

总而言之，数据革命为我们提供了理解现在和过去的绝佳方式。

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It allows the present and the past to intertwine, which is how music works anyway.

这功能让现在和过去交织在一起，这正是音乐的功效。

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Within the past 5, 000 years, societies across the Near East's Fertile Crescent began to use systems of marks to record important trade exchanges as well as pivotal events in the present and the past.

在过去的五千年中，遍布近东肥沃新月地带的各个人类社会已开始使用符号系统记录重要的商业交易以及发生的重大事件。

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My father was a veteran of the Korean War, and it really represents the future and the past and present."

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So what you have is the account of Richard and his friends talking in the past, and you have the present narrator's parsing of how this language relates to topics that impinge upon their very context, the racial realities of the South.

理查和朋友的对话,呈现在面前，同时加入了陈述,关于这语言如何与影响上下文的话题相关，文中提到南方的种族现实。

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And you'll use "If I were" to talk about yourself in the present in relationship to the past.

你可以用“If I were”来比较现在的你和过去的你。

If I were 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Real change in organizations will come with minds that can grasp the future, leverage the present and respect the past.

FORBES: 3 Wishes, 2 Tips and a Book

His dedication to the art that was central to his existence, his proselytizing zeal for new work that pushes concept and practice beyond existing limits, his driving belief in architecture as the defining art of the present and the past, did much to re-establish a sense of the importance of the way we build in an age that worships the beauty of the bottom line.

WSJ: Philip Johnson: Short of Attention Span, Long on Aesthetics

Especially taking into account all the cultural achievements and innovations, things that connect the present to the past and continue to inform the way that we live and cohabitate nowadays.

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