this fear was not just limited to the distant past — in 1910, people in chicago sealed their windows to protect themselves from what they thought was the comet’s poisonous tail.
这种担心并不只存在于很久以前——1910年,芝加哥的人们把住宅窗子封住,来保护他们免受被认为有毒的彗尾的伤害。
this would beat the record (set in the distant past of fiscal 2009) by $150 billion and be equivalent to 11% of u.s. gross domestic product.
一举超出记录(2009财年创下的记录)1千5百亿,相当于美国gdp的11%。
note the the expires date value is set to a date in the distant past so that it will always be refreshed.
注意,expires日期值设置为一个很久以前的日期,以便这个页面总是能够刷新。
the suggestion that squeaky-clean toyota’s behaviour may have resembled that of ford and gm, which in the distant past covered up problems with the pinto and the corvair, is especially wounding.
有人暗示,丰田「无可指责」的行为可能类似福特和通用汽车公司过去掩盖其平托和考威尔车的问题时的举动,这样的暗示对丰田极为不利。
what is more, the effect of the distant past dissipates much more slowly than the authors had expected, with the impact of events early in life persisting decades into the future.
此外,久远过去影响的削弱远远慢于作者们的预期。早期事件的影响将在数十年后继续存在。
the memories of events that took place in the distant past remain intact, whereas those that occurred at intermediate times are lost in a graded manner.
在遥远的过去发生的事件的记忆是保持不变的,而那些发生在中间时间段的就会丢失不同程度的信息。
but before diving into what the near future holds, let's resurface what the distant past once promised.
让我们在跳进未来的海底罐罐之前,先回顾一下过去我们被承诺了什么。
for a long time most commercial entertainments not set in the distant past or in some science-fiction superhero fantasyland have taken place in a realm of generic ease and relative affluence.
在很长一顿时间里,大多数没有很久很久以前或者科幻小说中的超级英雄,这种商业娱乐活动呈现出舒适而且比较富裕的生活。