It's like if a favourite song that you haven't heard in years comes onto the radio, then you might say " Woah, this song is a blast from the past! Turn it up! "
But if the suffering and loss of the past year is to have meaning, the work of private citizens cannot be enough. We must begin by holding to account those in power- especially the man in the White House.
And your next question, yes, this is in continuous, so, we could make this past continuous, " I was working in an office for one year" , that's fine, too. Another example.
你的下一个问题,是的,这是持续的,所以,我们可以让这个去是持续的,“I was working in an office for one year”,这也可以。另一个例子。
Speakers of American English use something else to make past experiences seem more real — the so-called " historic present, " which you can read about in our previous Everyday Grammar story.
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