彼には数奇な過去がある。の英語

He has a checkered past.

He has a murky past.

He regrets the past

He looks back to the past

He has a lingering fondness for the past.

He is no more than [is but] a shadow of his former self.

He is not what he used to be.

I have known him do some foolish things

He has been known to do some foolish things.

He is a ruin―a wreck―the wreck of his former self―the ruin of what he was―the shadow of what he used to be.

He's unread in history.

He is the wreck of his former self―the ruin of what he used to be.

A brilliant future lay before him.

he has old-fashioned values

he spoke apologetically about his past

There were lots of things I learned from him.

He taught me a lot of things.

He is as idle as he used to be―as lazy as of old.

I have especially been taken care of by him.

I have especially been helped out by him.

I had enough to keep up with him.

He is unversed in history.

I'll visit him for the first time in a while.

He talked about the past.

He got an F in history.

Something may have happened to him.

I thought that he had a connection.

He is behind the times―in arrear of the times―out of touch with the times.

I played a lot with him.

Have you heard from him recently?