thing of the past

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Developers often hesitate to use PNGs due to the limited support in browsers, but this is now a thing of the past.
開發(fā)人員經(jīng)常猶豫了，使用 PNG 由于在瀏覽器，有限的支持，但這現(xiàn)在是一件事的過去。
All the participants felt that job security is a thing of the past because companies and corporations are cutting expenses by shedding high-salary employees.
所有參加談話的人都認為，工作保障已經(jīng)是過去的事了，因為各公司企業(yè)都在通過解聘高薪雇員來節(jié)省開支。
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The announcement sent a signal to David Trimble and the Unionists that for Sinn Fein and the IRA, violence, as Adams had said, is a thing of the past, over, done with, and gone.
這一消息給了戴維·特林布爾和北愛統(tǒng)一黨成員這樣一個信號——正如亞當斯所說，對新芬黨和愛爾蘭共和軍而言，暴力是“過去的事，結束了，完結了，逝去了”。

He's not against the radio telescope surveys that have been the mainstay of SETI for the past 50 years, but he says maybe we're looking for the wrong thing.
They thought bank runs were a thing of the past.
他們還以為銀行擠兌是過去才發(fā)生的事兒
耶魯公開課 - 金融市場課程節(jié)選
We could really I think make large scale of extreme poverty the thing in the past.
我認為，我們一定會讓大規(guī)模,極度貧困成為往事。
普林斯頓公開課 - 人性課程節(jié)選

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