make the past serve the present

• 古为今用

make the past serve the present的用法和样例：

例句

1. Make the past serve the present and foreign things serve China.
   古为今用，洋为中用。
2. So we must appraise Han Fei's legalist thought accurately, absorb the quintessence and abandon the waste matter in order to make the past serve the present.
   所以，我们要正确看待韩非的法治思想，吸收其精华，弃其糟粕，做到古为今用。