My friend Jack the Insider has pointed out that Australians have coined their own ingenious form of the past exonerative.

我杰克·内部人士指出，澳大利亚人创造自己独特而巧妙过去时辩形式。

The phrase became so widespread in Washington that one commentator noted that a new tense had been added to the English language that he named the past exonerative.

这句话在华盛顿变得如此普遍，以至于位评论员指出，英语中增加新时态，他称之为“过去免责时态”。