You can look at the timeline charts in the back of your textbook to see when things were invented in different cultures at about the same time to see what I'm talking about.

你们可以看看教科书后面的时间表，看看不同文化背景下同一时间发明的东西，就知道我所说的了。

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It's time to stand back and look at your career so far.

现在你该从旁观者的角度来看一看自己迄今取得的成就了。

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For other people, the harvest festival is a time to look back at the past and look forward to the future.

对另一些人来说，丰收节是一个回顾过去、展望未来的节日。

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Ruhli,who is a medical doctor as well as a paleo-pathologist, says looking back can help scientists look forward, by revealing how the disease evolved over time.

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But I think anybody is hard-pressed to look back over a significant period of time like 99 or a hundred days and think you wouldn't have done some things differently.

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