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Every time we have a dormitory laundry, all the racks dormitory will be looking past - is too many clothes, so in our bedroom, laundry is a mutually exclusive events, while two people can not wash.

每次我们寝室有一个人洗衣服，全寝室的衣架都会被搜罗过去——衣服实在是太多了，所以在我们寝室，洗衣服是一个互斥事件，不可能两个人同时洗。

The past tense of spit "expectorate" is spat in BrE, spit or spat in AmE.

过去式的垃圾"吐"是吐口水是BRE ，吐痰或吐在AmE 。

If your past business was for manufacturing a plastic product used in exterior applications, it would be nice to be able to point out examples to show the product didn't shrivel up or turn to dust.

如果你过去的事务是生产用于外部应用的塑料制品，把注意力引向不会皱缩或者变为灰尘的产品是极好的。

Instead, you could think:"I'm not a fatalist; this was unpredictable; this too shall pass; it never rains all the time; or being fatalistic robs me of free choice."

相反，你可以考虑：'我不是宿命论者；这是无法预测的；这也会过去的；雨不会永远下；或，讲宿命剥夺了我的自由选择

His nominee for secretary of the Treasury is Tim Geithner, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York for the past 5 years.

他提名的财政部长是Tim Geithner，在过去的5年，他是纽约联邦储备银行的总裁。

The third point, most difficult of all to understand, is that students of history seem intentionally to refuse to see that this march cannot be ascribed to any one man, that no one foresaw it at any time, that, like the retreat to Fili, the manuvre was, in reality, never conceived of by any one in its entirety, but arose step by step, incident by incident, moment by moment from a countless multitude of the most diverse circumstances, and is only conceived of in its entirety, when it is an accomplished fact, and has become the past.

第三，令人最难以理解的是，研究历史的人故意不愿看见，这次侧翼进举不能归功于任何一个人，在任何时候都没有任何一个人对它有所预见，从菲利的撤退也和它完全一样，在任何时候都没有任何一个人看清楚它的全貌，它是由无数的各种各样的条件一步一步地、一个事件接着一个事件、随着时间的推移逐渐显露出来的，只有当它已经完成和已经成为过去的时候，它的全貌才呈现出来。

I have always been and will always be proud to be Filipino, but I would also like to regard myself as an adopted son of Beijing.

我过去一直是，将来也永远是骄傲地成为菲律宾人，但我也想，把自己作为一个养子北京。

There was a firetruck just passed by, do you see any fire anywhere?

救火车刚过去，是不是哪着火了？？

As she begins to tell them exactly who and what she is, we flashback to the past...

当她开始毫无保留地告诉他们她是谁及她是做什么的，故事便要回到过去

After some time she gave me his number and I rang to ask if he really thought I was going to let her, a 15-year-old, spend a week with him and his flatmate.

然后她给我Lee的电话，我打了过去，问他是不是认为我真愿意让我的15岁的小女儿去和他和他的室友一起呆一周。

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。