She was too frightened and weighed down by a sense of past guilt to try to understand it.

可是她被一种对已往罪过的负疚心情压得太重，吓得太厉害了，因此还理会这个问题。

See! The winter is past; the rains are over and gone.

因为冬天已往，雨止住过了。

Lil, I think this morning has been a step in the right direction.

莉莉 觉得今天早上间已往好的方向发展。

Scarlett knew from experience that, if Mammy's curiosity were not immediately satisfied, she would take up the matter with Ellen, and then Scarlett would be forced to reveal everything to her mother, or think up some plausible lie.

根据已往的经验，思嘉知道如果嬷嬷的好奇心能立即满足，她就会跟妈妈一起嘀咕，那时便只好向母亲交代一切，要就得编出一个像样的谎话来。