Celebrating such inventions of yesteryear prompts three thoughts .

赞美这些过去的发明令人产生三个想法。

The system almost guarantees that fresh capital goes to the losers of yesteryear .

这样的经济体制几乎必然让新资本流向过去的失败者。

It is easy , far too easy , to ridicule now the illusions of yesteryear .

现在看来，人们容易，很容易就会去嘲笑那些过去岁月中的幻想。

Another is instilling patriotic pride , a motive very familiar to expo organisers of yesteryear .

另外一个目的就是灌输自豪感，这是一个对过去历届世博会组织者都熟悉的目的。

But while their poses and outfits are largely similar , there are glaring differences about today 's pageants and those of yesteryear .

即便她们摆出的姿势和使用的表演服装大致相似，但现在与过去的选美还是存在明显不同。