I would say absolutely. And I would say even I could notice over the past four years I feel and there is a different tenor.

我答案是肯定的，我想说,甚至我都能感受到过去四年里,学校氛围发生的变化。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

And for better or for worse we've done a lot of damage over the past few years for this stuff.

过去的几年，无论好坏,我们都已经对这个东西造成很大的损坏了。

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Oh, they are. And at the moment there is a bill that I think over the past couple of years has been presented to the legislator.

是的，现在,就有这样一个法案，在几年前,人们把它提交给了立法者。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

It's a little bit of a digression, but one of the things that I've witnessed over the past twenty years is that the leakage of the -the leakage from the system in terms of the returns that go to the owners of capital -leakage has increased enormously.

讲一点稍稍离题的内容,我发现,过去的二十年中,这种损耗,这种减损资本所有者收益所得的,系统性损耗,有相当巨大的增长

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Because we have, as you've hopefully realized, made a concerted effort over the past several years to really reach out to students on this campus who might not otherwise have considered this as a field of exploration, just a one semester course, or even ultimately a concentration or minor.

你们也认识到了，因为我们，在过去几年中作出了共同的努力,来影响这个校园的学生们,但是某些学生可能认为这并不是一个探索性的领域,而只是学期中的一个课程而已，或者只是一门主修或选修课程。

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