One benefit of the past is that it is a dramatically foreshortened, edited version of the present.

「过去」的个优点，个剪接过的、非常精简版的当下。

Her foreshortened figure rushed away from him; the diminishing square of the roof seemed to be falling through the darkness.

她那因透视而小的姿急速离他而去。房顶那越来越小的方形似乎落进了黑暗里。

The gallery, sloping and foreshortened, seemed to give immediately on to the stage; and on the stage were a number of actors, moving silently to and fro, and wearing masks which they kept turned towards the auditorium.

倾斜的画廊似乎立即让位于舞台上；舞台上有几位演员，默默地来回走动， 戴着面具，不停地转向观众席。