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The oldest known map in the accepted sense of the word was drawn about 3,800BC, and represents the river Euphrates flowing through northern Mesopotamia, Irag.

本句中的known是过去分词做形容词用，意思是"已知的"，在某些语境中，known意为"著名的"。如：自考报名

The oldest known map in the accepted sense of the word was drawn about 3,800BC,and represents the river Euphrates flowing through northern Mesopotamia,Irag.

本句中的known是过去分词做形容词用，意思是"已知的"，在某些语境中，known意为"著名的"。如

The irreparability of the past: once at a performance of Albert Hengler's circus in the Rotunda, Rutland square, Dublin, an intuitive particoloured clown in quest of paternity had penetrated from the ring to a place in the auditorium where Bloom, solitary, was seated and had publicly declared to an exhilarated audience that he was his (the clown's) papa.

317过去的事是已经不可挽回的了。有一回艾伯特。亨格勒马戏团在都柏林市拉特兰广场的圆形建筑里演出，一名富于机智的小丑身穿色彩斑驳的服装，为了寻找乃父，竟走出马戏场，钻进观众席中，来到孤零零地坐着的布卢姆跟前，在大庭广众之下，向兴奋不已的观众公开宣称：他是他的爸爸。

For proving the method which is used to identify isochromatic fringe orders, the experimental model is devised when stress wave is reflected at the free boundary of the hole.

过去研究主要依靠动光弹进行，获得的数据是主应力差的资料，目前其判读是以Durelli〔1〕的研究基础发展而来的，随后朱振海〔2

If any family member of the directOR is employed as an executive officer of the issuer of any of its affiliates OR has been in the past three years.

如果一个董事的家庭成员是发行人或者其关联公司的高级管理人员或者在过去的三年内是。

If it is just studied in tower of ivory, it can not be recognized by more people.

敦煌文化，是历史留给我们的一笔丰厚遗产，只有象牙塔里的研究，是不能使更多的人了解敦煌、认识人类过去的成就。

But for the very reason that the emerald has such a stormy past, it is surely entitled to show it - that is, as long as only a fine jardin is to be seen, and not a rank garden which spoils both colour and transparency.

但为原因这块绿宝石有这样风雨如磐的过去，它肯定被给权显示它-那是只要唯一一美好jardin 将被看见，和不是损坏颜色和透明度的一个茂盛庭院。

Jetsam Software Design hasn't made profits for long time, and it should follow the example of the lead in the auto industry that replaces its expensive, full-time employees with cheaper, temporary employees.

V2： 一个地产中介的宣传册子说：房屋价格过去五年翻了一番，但是股票平均价格是一直再跌。所以现在是投资房屋市场的最好时候。

The Little Red Spot, a smaller cousin of the famous Great Red Spot, formed in the past decade from the merger of three smaller Jovian storms, and is now the second-largest storm on Jupiter.

这个"小红斑"是著名的"大红斑"的小表弟，在过去的十年里由三个较小的木星风暴合并而成，现如今是木星上第二大的风暴。

Rhyme and reason have their claims, though both can ease us away from what is not being said the fact, for example, that some of these names are the names of people who are dead: Grandpa Glaser, Uncle Bernie, Uncle Juke, Corise, Lisa, Tom, Chava… Seeing them here with addresses and phone numbers still attached is more than a reminder of what has passed.

押韵和原因有他们的说法，虽然两者都可以缓和美远离什么是不能说事实上，例如，一些这些名称姓名的人谁是死亡：格拉泽爷爷，叔叔伯尼，叔叔juke ， corise ，丽莎，汤姆， chava …看到他们在这里与地址和电话数字仍然重视多于提醒什么样的已经过去了。

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。