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Respect the past

尊重过去

“Whatever we mean by the economy growing, by things getting better, the gains will have to be more evenly shared than in the recent past,” she writes.

她写道：“无论我们所说的经济增长、情况变好指的是什么，收益都必须比近年来分配得更加均衡。”

The parks also help keep America’s past alive, working with thousands of local jurisdictions around the country to protect historical sites — including Ellis Island and Gettysburg — and to bring the stories of these places to life.

这些公园还帮助让美国的历史鲜活地延续下去，它们与全国数以千计的地方辖区合作，保护包括埃利斯岛和葛底斯堡在内的历史遗址，并让这些地方的故事重现生机。

have fond memories of their past.

对过去怀有美好的回忆。

As a historian who’s always searching for the text or the image that makes us re-evaluate the past, I’ve become preoccupied with looking for photographs that show our Victorian ancestors smiling (what better way to shatter the image of 19th-century prudery?).

作为一名总在寻找能让我们重新评价过去的文字或图像的历史学家，我开始热衷于寻找那些展现我们维多利亚时代祖先微笑的照片（还有什么比这更好的方式来打破19世纪拘谨古板的形象呢？）。

CEO Pay: Past and Present

首席执行官薪酬：过去与现在

Optimists point out that technological upheaval has benefited workers in the past.

乐观主义者指出，技术剧变在过去曾使工人受益。

Hawaiian culture is not a relic of the past; it is a living culture undergoing a renaissance today.

夏威夷文化不是过去的遗迹；它是一种鲜活的文化，如今正在经历复兴。

If you are surrounded by problems and cannot stop thinking about the past, try to focus on the present moment.

如果你被问题包围，无法停止回想过去，那就试着专注于当下。

Many of us are weighed down by the past or anxious about the future.

我们中的许多人被过去压得喘不过气，或为未来忧心忡忡。

You may feel guilt over your past, but you are poisoning the present with the things and circumstances you cannot change.

你也许会为过去感到内疚，但你是在用那些无法改变的事情和境况毒害当下。

Happiness is not a point of future and not a moment from the past, but a mindset that can be designed into the present.

幸福不是未来的某个时刻，也不是过去的某个瞬间，而是一种可以融入当下的心态。

Since his “action” is in the past, the photograph is its sole embodiment.

由于他的“行动”已成过去，照片便是它唯一的体现。

As so often, the past holds the key to the future: we have now identified enough of the long-term patterns shaping the history of the planet, and our species, to make evidence-based forecasts about the situations in which our descendants will find themselves.

一如既往，过去是通往未来的钥匙：我们现在已经识别出足够多塑造地球及人类历史的长期规律，从而能够对我们的后代将要面临的处境做出有据可依的预测。

draw on our experience from the past.

借鉴我们过去的经验。

In the past, workers with average skills, doing an average job, could earn an average lifestyle.

过去，技能一般、从事一般工作的工人能够过上一般水平的生活。

This could be no more than a passing literary craze, but it also points to a broader truth about how we now approach the past: less concerned with learning from forefathers and more interested in feeling their pain.

这或许只是一时的文学风潮，但它也揭示了我们如今看待过去的方式中一个更普遍的事实：不那么在意向先辈学习，而更有兴趣去感受他们的痛苦。

For: “Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly found, given and transmitted from the past.”

因为：“人们创造自己的历史，但是他们并不是随心所欲地创造；并不是在他们自己选定的条件下创造，而是在直接碰到的、既定的、从过去承继下来的条件下创造。”

This was the tradition which revolutionized our appreciation of the past.

正是这一传统彻底改变了我们对过去的认识。

However, over the past 12 months, those commuters have also experienced some of the worst rail strikes in years.

然而，在过去12个月里，这些通勤者也经历了多年来最严重的几次铁路罢工。

This week, it asked the five most valuable US tech companies for information about their many small acquisitions over the past decade.

本周，它要求美国市值最高的五家科技公司提供过去十年中它们众多小型收购的信息。

Between them, the five biggest tech companies have spent an average of only $3.4 billion a year on sub-$1 billion acquisitions over the past five years — a drop in the ocean compared with their massive financial reserves, and the more than $130 billion of venture capital that was invested in the US last year.

过去五年，这五家最大的科技公司平均每年在10亿美元以下的收购上总共只花了34亿美元——与它们庞大的财务储备以及去年在美国投入的1300多亿美元风险投资相比，这只是沧海一粟。

Instead, the digital services tax is part of a much larger trend, with countries over the past few years proposing or putting in place an alphabet soup of new international tax provisions.

相反，数字服务税是一个更大趋势的一部分：过去几年里，各国纷纷提出或实施了一大堆名目繁多的新国际税收条款。

Despite graduating into the best economy in the past 50 years, Gen Zs know what an economic train wreck looks like.

尽管他们毕业时正赶上过去50年来最好的经济形势，Z世代却知道经济崩溃是什么样子。

how they differ from past generations.

他们与前几代人有何不同。

Grade inflation — the gradual increase in average GPAs (grade-point averages) over the past few decades — is often considered a product of a consumer era in higher education, in which students are treated like customers to be pleased.

分数膨胀——过去几十年来平均GPA（平均绩点）的逐步上升——常被认为是高等教育消费时代的产物，在这个时代，学生被当作需要取悦的顾客。

Their reactions may be a complex combination of instant reflexes, input from past driving experiences, and what their eyes and ears tell them in that moment.

他们的反应可能是即时反射、过去驾驶经验的输入以及当时耳目所获信息的复杂结合。

The cost of solar panels has dropped by 80 percent and the cost of wind turbines by close to one-third in the past eight years.

在过去八年里，太阳能电池板的成本下降了80%，风力涡轮机的成本下降了近三分之一。

Over the past decade, the focus has been on climate change — how the warming of the Earth from greenhouse gases is leading to conditions that worsen fires.

过去十年里，焦点一直集中在气候变化上——温室气体导致的地球变暖如何造成使火灾恶化的条件。

They cite past research by several authors to show that this is the gap that must be narrowed to close the achievement gap.

他们引用了几位作者以往的研究，以表明要缩小成就差距，就必须缩小这方面的差距。

In the past couple of weeks a quarrel has illustrated the value to advertisers of such fine-grained information: Should advertisers assume that people are happy to be tracked and sent behavioural ads?

过去几周里的一场争论说明了这类精细信息对广告商的价值：广告商是否应该假定人们乐于被追踪并接收行为定向广告？

I can pick a date from the past 53 years and know instantly where I was, what happened in the news and even the day of the week.

我可以从过去53年中随便挑出一个日期，立刻知道那天我在哪里、新闻里发生了什么，甚至那天是星期几。

One reason for the persistence of this pyramid of production is that for the past half-century, much of the world's media culture has been defined by a single medium — television — and television is defined by downloading.

这种生产金字塔之所以持续存在，原因之一是在过去半个世纪里，世界上大部分媒体文化都由单一媒介——电视——所定义，而电视的本质就是下载。

Rather than concluding that children make parents either happy or miserable, Senior suggests we need to redefine happiness: instead of thinking of it as something that can be measured by moment-to-moment joy, we should consider being happy as a past-tense condition.

西尼尔并没有得出孩子使父母快乐或痛苦的结论，而是提出我们需要重新定义幸福：不应把幸福看作可以用每时每刻的快乐来衡量的东西，而应把幸福视为一种“过去时”的状态。