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Once a muscular general, Sharon in a more recent time was offered a case of the diet supplement Slim Fast as a gift. He chugged down three cans of the chocolatey liquid in one sitting.

夏隆过去是一位肌肉结实的将官，最近有人送他一盒叫「瘦得快」的健康减肥食品当礼物，他却一口气喝下三罐巧克力饮料。

He was the deadest shot in the county one time.

他过去是全县赫赫有名的神枪手。

I was a princess to him and my mother is not literate enough to know my father's entires wealth.

我父亲过去是这的国王，这个城镇的人们在我父亲生前给他冠以这个称号已经有不止16年了。

Even women who have not been trained as a young girl can become geishas.

无论如何，艺妓的训练与过去是一样的严格。

It is so hard to lay down what I've been.

放弃我的过去是如此的艰难

The name of the city, most means "bridge" in Czech, harkens back to the swampy landscape of the 10th and 11th centuries that was covered with wooden bridges and used by merchants to transport goods from Prague to Freiberg and back.

从十至十一世纪这里过去是沼泽的地形，因为那儿有木制的桥使得商人运输货物自布拉格到Freiberg然后再回来。

Hand-painted hoardings used to be the norm because labor was cheap and imports were not allowed,' says Ashish Bhasin, a director of Lintas, India, which is compiling a computer database to help advertisers choose from more than 20,000 billboard spots across the country.

Lintas 的部门经理Ashish Bhasin说，手绘广告过去是户外广告的最主要形式，这不仅因为印度的劳动力便宜，还因为政府不允许进口广告牌印刷设备。这家公司正在编制一个帮助广告主从全国2万多个固定广告牌中作挑选的数据库。

Mm, of course delicious because our Huanghua winter jujubes used to be a special tribute to emperors.

嗯，当然好吃了，因为咱们黄骅的冬枣在过去是专给皇上的贡品。

Britain had traditional ec onomic ties with the southern part of the United States that provided cotton to British mar kets.

过去是美国南方为英国市场提供棉花，英国与之有着紧密的传统经济联系。

In today's segment of our series of features on "Dads with a Difference" we introduce you to Feng Chaocheng, an 87-year-old resident of a nursing home in Tainan, Taiwan. Mr Feng suffered a number of tragedies in his life - his daughter and son-in-law both died, and he contracted cancer of the kidney. Now Mr Feng finds comfort in his Buddhist faith, and has become a Tzu Chi member. Once a keen hunter of animals and meat eater, these days Mr Feng's greatest pleasure is to take dry feed to the park to give to the animals.

&不一样的父亲&专题中，要为您介绍在台南安养中心八十七岁的冯朝程伯伯，他年轻时曾跟农业团到宏都拉斯服务，经历过一连串的打击，女儿和女婿相继往生，自己罹患肾脏癌，现今他不仅念佛吃素，还当了慈济会员，过去是个肉食主义者，现在他会开心的拿著乾粮，到公园餵食动物。

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。