While young and old mostly agree on what constitutes the finish line of a fulfilling life, they offer strikingly different paths for reaching it.

尽管年轻人和老年人在“什么构成了成功人生的终点线”这一问题上基本达成了一致，但他们提出的到达终点线的路径截然不同。

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With the old way of life doomed, aluminum projects like this one had come to be perceived, wisely or not, as a last chance.

随着旧的生活方式注定要失败，像这样的铝项目已经被看作是最后的机会，无论明智与否。

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Last September, the 28-year-old Chicago resident resolved to cut plastics out of her life.

去年9月，这位28岁的芝加哥居民决定不再使用塑料制品。

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and so -- very slowly -- I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and free myself of the eye forever.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

If only you'd known you had another 50 years, that you weren't going to die young-- or James Dean, going to burn out fast and die young-- if only you'd realized you were going to live to the ripe old age of 97, you would have picked a different life for yourself.

如果你知道自己还剩下50年，你不会英年早逝-,或者说你不会油尽灯枯，英年早逝-,如果你知道,你可以活到97岁高龄，你就会为自己选择另一种生活。

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Clara Barton really began her life of caring for the sick when she was only eleven years old.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

The problem is buried in the fine print of universal life policies, widely promoted since the 1980s as a new and improved version of the old-fashioned whole life insurance product our grandparents relied on as the surest way to save for retirement.

FORBES: Retirement Disaster Looms For Universal Life Policyholders

Seau, like others, was in what non-super athletes call the prime of life (43 years old), on the cusp of prime time earning potential.

FORBES: Connect

They crave the sense of connection, the inherently communal experience, of hearing real people breathe life into centuries-old compositions: the venerated composers, modern-day musicians and generations of music-lovers, all united in the expression of raw human emotion through art.

WHITEHOUSE: The Ambition to Inspire All