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Truth, which used to be central to the mission of education, has been trivialized and fragmented by relativism, leaving education without a clear purpose.

曾经对于教育的使命至关重要的真理，被相对主义平凡化和分崩瓦解了，使得教育没有一个清晰的目的。

People regards me as being xenocentric, which vexes me a lot, but my life is influenced by this used-to-be colony deeply from their TV, magazines to their culture.

不喜欢被别人说我崇洋媚外，但自己的成长却偏偏跟那个曾经的殖民地的电视、杂志文化所影响。

The village used to be a stop for old tea caravans traveling to India.

这个村落过去曾经是一个通往印度的茶马古道的中转站。

"I used to be able to dress myself," I joked with her.

&我曾经能够穿着自己，&我开玩笑说她的。

I used to be fat and I do not want to go back to being fat.

我从前是肥胖，我不想再回到过去胖。

I used to be a smoker. The first thing I did when I woke up at 6am was to reach out of bed, grab a cigarette and light up.

我曾是个烟民，每天早晨6点醒来的第一件事便是离床伸手去拿烟点上。

It used to be that when she put the bread in the toaster, she had to turn it once to toast both sides.

以前她把面包放进烤面包机，还要翻转一次面包，才能烤另一面。

Hayes promised to give her own children a good childhood. Mr. Hayes used to be a cargo carrier.

所以海斯夫人发誓要给她自己的孩子一个美好的童年。

Until October 2002, I used to be a product representative for the Hottop Coffee Roaster (refer to:http://www.hottop.com.tw/). I'm no longercommercially involved in this, but I just wanted to saythat have very positive experience with it.

一直到2002年10月以前，我曾经是 Hottop 烘豆机的产品代言人一员，现在我已经不是这个团体的成员了，不过我对这台机器的性能还挺满意的。

If employees continue to ask for what we, as a society, used to be able to afford to offer them, then big corporations may simply shift their operations overseas where labor is dirt-cheap and labor and environmental protections are virtually non-existent.

如果雇员继续要求我们作为社会曾经能够负担提供给他们的东西，那么大公司可能直接将他们的生产线移到海外，那里劳动力不值钱，劳工保障和环境保护实际上不存在。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。