例如，二十世纪开始的二十多年中儿童营养状况改善，使今天的老年人比他们的先辈有了更好的人生起点。

Improvements in childhood nutrition in the first quarter of the twentieth century, for example, gave today's elderly people a better start in life than their predecessors.

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这个想法使得这位23岁的北京姑娘无法为自己写出更好的人生剧本。

As it turns out, the willowy 23 year old Beijinger could not have written a better script of her life.

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后来，为了追求更好的人生，他在比利时的穷人中任传教士。但是他和上级吵架了，放弃了那份工作。

Then, looking for a deeper purpose in life, he worked as a missionary among the poor in Belgium, but he quarrelled with his superiors and abandoned that career as well.

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And indeed, the question, strictly speaking, isn't even would life on the experience machine ? be better than it is now?

严格地说，我的问题，甚至不是说体验机器上的人生,难道不会比现在的更好吗？

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He lived and died not like most people but better, and even his most vehement critics will admit to that.

他的人生与死亡不同于众人，而是更好，就算是批评他最猛烈的人,也会如此认同。

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I'm inclined to think there's more to the best kind of life than just having pleasure and avoiding pain.

我倾向认为人生有比享受快乐,避免痛苦更好的东西。

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