Things were different in the old days.

从前的情况可不一样。

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In the old days, doctors made housecalls.

以前，医生们都上门看病。

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I used to edit the college paper in the old days.

我过去曾主编过大学校报。

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In the old days, it took a long time to count the votes from the November elections.

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Also, they don't have to actually--in the old days, they didn't actually have to compute the investment rate.

其实在过去人们不必,真正计算投资收益率

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and many of the anonymous poets from the old English period that I studied in my graduate school days.

还有许多我在大学里学过的古英语时期的匿名诗人。

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In the old days, it typically took 20 years for this process to happen.

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After all, in the old days who had a problem with 3% or 4% base rates?

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In the old days, molds were often whittled at home from scraps of lumber.

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