looking back at what documents survive from those centuries ago they are most frequently about religious topics, not the equivalent of today’s baseball statistics.

回顾历史，从那个年代流传下来的书面记录大多数关于宗教话题，而不是当今的棒球赛技术统计之类的东西。

「yeah, i mean, looking back now it makes complete sense, 」 she admits, in the soft, flat northern vowels bequeathed to her by a whitley bay childhood.

「是的，我是说，现在看来那些观察都是非常重要的，」她承认，带着童年时在惠特利海湾生活所留下的轻软的、平和的北方口音。

having no idea of starting and ending, i am just looking back to the past and smiling bitterly at every station of my missing.

不知道起点，终点，只是在每个思念的站点,总是对往事回首，看我悸动的心凄然一笑.

looking back now, i think this was the right decision.

现在回想起来，我觉得当初这个决定是对的。

looking back on those tantrums now, i’m not too surprised.

看自己回过去的暴躁，自己也不会感到太惊讶。

looking back i don't know how i even passed. but there is a lesson here for anyone who tries to do too much too soon.

回顾过去我都不知道我是怎么通过考试的，但对任何想要在太短时间里做太多的人来说这是一个教训。

looking back to the palace, i realize that it is so glorious in the sun. but now, i am not belonging to it and all of the happiness there does not belong to me either.

回首望去，我第一次发现那夕阳下的宫殿竟那么美，可是现在，我已不属于那座宫殿，那里的一切快乐与幸福也不再属于我了。

but he keeps looking back at the assistant, fascinated, as if reluctant to leave.

但小男孩一直出神地看着那位助理，似乎不舍得离开。

just looking back is not enough.

只向后看是不够的。

so find purpose and passion in life and move forward, looking back only long enough to learn from it.

所以找準生活的目标，满怀热情地前进吧。 会看过去只是为了从中学到东西。

looking back on it, i can see how the statement looked ambivalent and a touch arrogant, but it was an honest expression of how i felt, as i began the first campaign since 1982 that i could have lost.

现在回头想想，我能够看出，在这个声明中，我所流露出的矛盾心理和些许的傲慢，但它确实是我内心感受的真实表达，因为这是自1982年以来，我第一次开始进行可能会失利的竞选活动。

i was only working as a free-lancer for most of 2005, and wasn’t making enough to support my family, looking back on it.

2005年的大部分时间我只是做一个自由作家，现在看来，那时没能赚到足够支持家庭开支的钱。

looking back on it, i must have recovered rather quickly, although for the first few months i believed i didn’t want to live.

回首往事，我又很快找到了当时的感觉。虽然在最初的几个月里我简直不想活在这个世上了。