中国要做到古为今用，洋为中用。

Make the past serve the present and the foreign serve China.

为发掘传统技术，将起到古为今用的作用。

To excavate tradition technology, this will play a role in making the past serve the present.

古为今用，作者通过对《诗经》中农业地理知识的深刻挖掘，得出了三个有益的启示。

Making the past serve the present, the author draws three beneficial inspirations from the full explorations of the agriculture geographical knowledge in the Book of Songs.

所以我们现在以批判和吸收的眼光对待“明人伦”思想、取其精华去其糟粕、古为今用。

So we now look towards critical and absorption, "Ming-lun," thinking of its essence to its dregs, make the past serve the present.