The immediate threat of the past has disappeared and the security situation in Europe has significantly improved.
过去的直接威胁不复存在了，欧洲的安全状况有重大改善。
《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
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Once language starts to develop from about age 2, they do have a system for symbolic representation and can talk about things which aren't in their immediate environment including the past.
一旦语言从2岁左右开始发展，他们就有了一个符号表征系统，可以谈论过去和现在环境之外的事情。
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His view is that lots of thinking is squeezed in to the two seconds of a blink decision: immediate observations are cross-referenced with past experience to generate broad inferences.