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It used to be you could only find Neodymium magnets in specialized equipment like hard drives.

过去是你只能找到专门的设备，例如硬盘驱动器钕磁铁。

She used to be a wonderful novelist, but she's finished now.

她过去是个很好的小说家，不过现在已完了。

In short, in my view, this wave of investment overheating, with the overheated investment in the past is different.

总之，在我看来，这一波的投资过热，投资过热与过去是不同的。

At last he came upon an elderly, crusty Jew, who sold second-hand articles, and from whom he purchased a dress of Scotch stuff, a large mantle, and a fine otter-skin pelisse, for which he did not hesitate to pay seventy-five pounds.

路路通在买东西的时候，很快就把全城看了一遍，这里过去是工商业城市，可是现在既无商业，也无工业，从前保卫着城市的那座雄伟的碉堡，今天已经改成了监狱。

You could not point to that mass of randomly scattered atoms and say, That thing used to be one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.

你不能指着那堆随机飘散的原子说：这个东西，过去是古代世界七大奇迹之一。

She used to be a punk girl.

她过去是个"朋克女孩"。

The 32 participating member associations will be offered 12% of the purchasable tickets for each of their matches (previously 8%) in the group phase and an average of 8% in the knockout phases.

在小组赛阶段，进入决赛圈的32强成员国会各自分配到"该国参加的比赛的可购票数"的12%（过去是8%）；而进入淘汰赛阶段，各国会分配到8%。

The Great Pyramid used to be 481 feet high .

大金字塔过去是481英尺高。

The building used to be a monastery and the restaurant is situated in the former refectory.

这座博物馆过去是一座修道院，其餐厅就座落于原来的修道院食堂。

It used to be that only reseller accounts offered such features.

过去是，只有经销商的帐户提供了这样的功能。

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。