1. Prices have risen steadily during the past decade.
    过去十年中价格已稳步地上涨。

2. People often give different interpretations of the past.
    人们往往对过去做出不同的解释。

3. Past experience has taught us that certain accomplishments are beyond attainment.
    以往的经验告诉我们有些事是办不到的。

4. Psychology counselors, for example, often help these people by asking about the hobbies they enjoyed in the past and don't have any more now.
    例如, 心理咨询顾问常常可以通过询问他们过去喜欢的、而现在却丢得一干二净的业余爱好来帮助他们。

5. People may live well past a hundred years, be equipped with plastic body parts, and eat man-made foods.
    人们身上安装着塑料的人体器官，吃着人造的食品，可以活过百岁。

6. Just think how the past 2,000 years would be different without these "small" big ideas:
    想想吧，要是没有下面这些不起眼的、却又是了不起的想法，过去的两千年会是多么的不同：

7. John Stevens, head of the Northumbria Police Department, has just published his review of the past years.
    该警局负责人约翰·史蒂文斯最近发表了他对过去几年工作的述评。

8. Out of 143 operations in the past decade, 59 patients are still alive.
    在过去十年里接受手术治疗的143位患者中，有59位仍然健在。

9. On this second leg of the triangular trade, the ship went southward across the Bay of Biscay, down past the Canaries, into the mouth of the Gambia River.
    在这三角贸易的第二段航程中，该船向南航行穿过了比斯开湾，南下途经加那利群岛，驶入了冈比亚河的河口。

10. Over the past 2,000 years inventors have created machines and articles that have changed the world.
    在过去两千年里，发明家们创造了各式各样改变了世界的机器和装置。