No doubt under a higher command, but its orders, which are more general, require interpretation by him and upon that interpretation depends the life of ten, fourteen or twenty men.

无疑的，他是在上级的命令下这样做的，但是这命令极为泛泛，必须他来加以解释。而就在这解释上，决定了十人，十四人，或二十个人的生命。

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She was pardoned after serving ten years of a life sentence.

她被判终身监禁服刑十年后被赦免了。

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For the first ten years of our married life we lived in a farmhouse.

在结婚后的前10年，我们住在一间农舍里。

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The study was part of a larger ten-year project called the Global Census of Marine Life.

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Or my life would've gone better for this period of ten years, but then it would've become worse.

或者说我的生活在这十年本来可以更好，然后它会变得糟糕。

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If we are neutralists, we're going to say, the question is, what would the contents of my life have been, for the next year, ? ten years, whatever?

如果我们是守中主义者，我们会说，问题是，我的生活内容是什么，即下一年的内容，接下来十年的内容是什么？

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Women's control over the number of children they have is an unqualified good as is the average person's enjoyment, in rich countries, of ten more years of life than they had in 1960.

ECONOMIST: Declining populations

Despite having had staggeringly bad luck for most of his young life, ten-year-old Jose Gomes is now one of the fortunate ones.

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But as we move further towards the end of the ten-year predicted life of the Xbox 360, it will become progressively harder to justify replacing it with a more modern implementation of the same philosophy, I think.

FORBES: 10 years of the Xbox - will the box survive another 10?