We think of the same is the case here.

Just give you some perspective, this is the Reagan Library. Right in there is Air Force One.

This has been the site of Presidential debates on CNN in the past.

In addition to the smoke in the air, the air pollution, the stress of evacuating yet another evacuation zone.

You have people dealing with those rolling black outs as PGE, Pacific Gas and Electric, catches so much wrath from the public.

Theyre shutting down huge swaths of their service area to try to prevent more fires from sparking out there in the wild lands.

They need to fortify something like 7,000 miles of vulnerable power lines in the state.

This year they managed 100 miles. Whoa. And there goes a bomber right on queue.



In the past是過去式，為何可以用目前完成時呢？



in the past可以與目前完成時連用。in the past 的基本特點：

1. in the past 這個詞組跟 before 很相似，它們都不是一個明確或具體的“過去時間”，而是一個“模糊過去時間”。用一般過去時是正常狀態，但也可以用于“目前完成時”，強調持續到目前的動作或狀況，與對目前的影響。

2. in the past 可以表示剛剛過去的時間，像in the past five days，離說話時間幾乎沒距離，這也為它用于“目前完成時”，提供了一個理由。

in the past與目前完成時連用，舉比如下：

1. In the past conservatives have been in the minority.

過去守舊派一直占少數。

2. In the past they have been the target of racist abuse.

過去，他們一直是種族虐待的對象。

3. In the past he has pooh-poohed suggestions that he might succeed Isaacs.

過去他對自己會接替艾薩克斯之說嗤之以鼻。

4.The two sides will have to be better and tougher than either has been in the past.

雙方都需要比過去更好一些、更強硬一些。

5. They have been so feather-bedded in the past that they can’t cope with hardship now.

他們一直嬌生慣養，所以目前過不了苦日子。

6. In the past this process of transition has often proved difficult.

過去這種過渡過程常證明是困難的。

7. In the past they’ve tended to turn a deaf ear to such requests.

過去他們對如此的請求一直都是視而不見的。

8. We have achieved much in the past, and we may hope to achieve even more in the future.

過去大家已獲得非常大成績，以后大家期望獲得更大的成績。