不应忘记的是，人们过去的锻炼要多得多。

It should not be forgotten that people used to get much more exercise.

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人们过去喜欢大城市，但是现在很多人说他们对住在农场感兴趣。

People used to like big cities, but now many say that they are interested in living on a farm.

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Also, they don't have to actually--in the old days, they didn't actually have to compute the investment rate.

其实在过去人们不必,真正计算投资收益率

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Well, does one feel any nostalgia now for the coolness and heat of this moment?

由于这个时代的冷暖,人们会怀念过去吗？

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For at least four decades, people have been building tools called debuggers.

在过去的至少四十年里,人们一直在做一种叫做调试器的工具。

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