这个团体在过去是出了名的善变。

The group has been notoriously fickle in the past.

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她过去是学校曲棍球队的队长。

She was captain of the hockey team at school.

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她过去是个小有名气的歌手。

She used to be a singer of some renown.

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All I want to stress is that my discovery of her was a fatal consequence of that "princedom by the sea" in my tortured past.

我想强调的是，我对她的发现,乃是在扭曲的过去里建筑的那座海边王国的致命后果。

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work is going from where it used to be 5 or 6 big companies in California, in San Francisco and LA.

过去的工作是由加州、旧金山和洛杉矶的五六个大公司来做，

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I would say absolutely. And I would say even I could notice over the past four years I feel and there is a different tenor.

我答案是肯定的，我想说,甚至我都能感受到过去四年里,学校氛围发生的变化。

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