过去是

War is terrible, there have been numerous wars since time immemorial, but it was already in the past.

战争是可怕的，古往今来发生过无数战争，但是，那已是过去。

As are, as it were, impending.

他们现在是，过去也是，紧迫的。

Over the past year for the CFO is a temper, is an intellectual, manpower and time in all aspects of a good temper.

在过去的一年，财务总监是一个脾气，是一个智力，人力和一个脾气好各方面的时间。

My job is to study the American people in the past; but also to some extent in the present.

我的任务是研究美国人的过去，但某种程度上，也是今天。

You are the best in the world, I love you, but it is thing of the past.

你是世界上最好的人，我爱你，但是，那都是过去的事了。

I think in some respects over the years we've been pretty arrogant, saying it's our game.

我想过去的几年里，在某些方面，我们是有些自大了，说这是我们的游戏。

It was this lesson of His continuity, in the strictest sense, with the past, which was required in order that the Church might be, so to speak, reconstituted now in the Name, Power, and Spirit of the Risen One Who had lived and died.

这是这个教训，他的连续性，在严格的意义上讲，与过去，这是需要在命令教会可能，因此要发言，重组，现在的名称，电力，和精神复活的一个谁曾经生活和死亡。

If the president is reelected, it is largely on the basis of the past－the state of the nation during his incumbency－rather than his promises for the future.

如果总统重新当选，主要是根据过去－他任职期间国家的状况－而不是他对将来的承诺。

The trouble is that, with no consensus about the past, Japan's establishment is inept better future.

麻烦是，对过去没有共识，日本是不能建立更加美好的未来。

Critics of family planning programs will seize gleefully upon this book, and that's unfortunate, because two propositions are both correct: first, population planners have made grievous mistakes and were inexcusably quiet for too long about forced sterilization in countries like India and China; and second, those same planners have learned from past mistakes and today are fighting poverty and saving vast numbers of lives in developing countries.

计划生育计划的批评者满怀欣喜地拿起这本书（本文评论的这本书——《致命的误解》，译者注），但是他们会很遗憾，因为两种陈述都没有错：一是人口计划者犯了严重的无法原谅的错误，他们对印度、中国等国家采取的强制绝育措施保持了太长时间的沉默。二是这些计划者从过去的错误中获得教益，今天，他们正与贫穷进行斗争，在发展中国家他们挽救了的大量的生命。

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。