过去是

This was the spot where I was receiving my education; and this was the sort of education; and I am perfectly satisfied that if I had not received such an education, or something very much like it -- that, if I had been brought up a milksop,3 with a nursery-maid ever- lastingly at my heels,4 I should have been at this day as great a fool, as inefficient a mortal,5 as any of those frivolous idiots that are turned out from Winchester and Westminster School, or from any of those dens of dunces called Colleges and Universities.

这是我过去接受教育的地方，接受的就是这种教育，对此我心满意足。如果我未曾接受过这种，或诸如此类的教育，如果我被养成一棵温室的弱苗，有个保姆老是跟在我的脚后跟，那么我今天就会是一个大傻瓜，无所事事，就像从温切斯特和西敏学校，或从被称作学院和大学的笨伯的巢穴里走出的那些无聊呆子中的任何一个一样。

With transformation that surpasses that of the past few centuries or even millenium, this period has seen such dramatic change on account of the development of network and information technology.

人类几千年的历史发展中，近十年、二十年的变化是最巨大的，超过过去几百年，甚至上千年的变化，我想这些飞速变化的主要原因是网络技术、信息技术的发展。

That it was used as money for millennia is irrelevant: it isn't any more.

这和黄金被作为货币使用了几千年是不相关的：何况那已是过去。

Milo:I was thinking, we are not able to return to the old days

米洛："我在想，我们是不是能够回到过去的日子。"

Mincemeat used to be an entrap made up of mostly chopped meat.

Mincemeat过去的意思是切碎了的肉，听起来好像是以前人们常说的："我要把你切成一块一块的。"

The report was the strongest statement yet by the Bush ad ministration that human activity is the main cause of climate change in the last 50 years.

这份报告是布什掌权下的最强的声明，它认为过去50年中气候变化的主要原因是人权运动。

Only He, Who is as omnipotent as He is gracious, in the abundance of His grace and almighty power, can perform for man that miracle of miracles, the blotting out of the consequences of his past mistakes.

只有他，谁是万能的，因为他是礼让，丰富自己的风姿和万能力量这个奇迹的人才能胜任奇迹，抹杀了他过去错误的后果。

However, it is evident that if past mistakes, or misguide dactions, have determined the current level of public spending, that level cannot be assumed to be optimal in an economic or even political sense even though it may, in some sense, represent a kind of political equilibrium.

但是，显然，假如过去的错误或者被误导的行为决定现在的公共开支水平，那么，就不能认为，该开支水平是经济甚至政治意义上的最优水平，即使它在某种意义上体现的是某种政治均衡。

At times there may only be a thin line of difference between the past and the present, particularly in the case of the Miura or the Ford GT (GT40), which may blot the difference we perceive and hence be inclined to think them as copies of the original.

有时可能只细线差别，过去与现在，尤其是在这样的 miura 或福特gt(gt40)，这可能印迹的差异，我们看到，因而会倾向于认为他们是原件的副本。

One end is the substantial use of the third person form, the present tense and the past tense; through frequent use of the third person form as the Subject, the writers of commercial editorials are at a position of an impartial third party describing the facts in an apparently neutral manner; the past tense and the present tense are also considerably employed to further help to enhance the objectivity of the writers" presentation, for they reflect the facts and events which did take place and do stay there now. The other is the moderate employment of modal operators and Modal Adjuncts. Those of low value group and median value group form the main body of all the modal operators; instead modal operators of high value group occur least frequently, which imply writers" strong attitude.

为得到更有普遍性更可信的结论，本文作者选取了30篇商业社评作为大样本进行统计处理、描述及分析；通过对语气成分及情态修饰语的分析，探讨了在商业社评中人际功能与非人际表现的平衡；一方面是大量使用第三人称、现在时态与过去时态，另一方面是应适度采用情态算子与情态修饰语。

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。