Jacquelyn Gill: understanding the past is often the key to understanding the future.

杰奎琳·吉尔：了解过去通常是预知未来的关键。

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Modern music is often considered inferior to that of the past.

现代音乐常被认为不如过去的。

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After the fear and panic of the past two years, that may come almost as an anticlimax. But that is the way crises often end.

过去两年的担忧惊恐之后，那或许的确是一个败兴的结局，但危机也往往是这样结束的。

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Mr.Hawass is often described as a colorful leader who has brought Egypt's long-ago past to the attention of the world.

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The federalist response to this is that the British are living in the past (the 19th century is often mentioned).

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The overwhelming growth of organized crime in Mexico in the past decade is often blamed on multiparty democracy.

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My basic point is that the past few decades, what is often called globalisation (often by the English, neoliberalism) has led to the largest reduction in poverty in the history of our species.

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