But what's even worse is I'm going to get even less than the average amount of life.

但更糟糕的是,我活得比平均寿命还要短。

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For every person who has less than the median amount of life, there's another person who has more than the median amount of life.

对于活得比平均寿命短的人来说，有一个人,活得比平均寿命长。

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People lived shorter lives and so they didn't get far enough into the age span to suffer from the chronic diseases that people are suffering more today.

当时的人寿命比较短所以他们,活不到现代人那么长,长得足以患上那些慢性疾病

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From the point of view of somebody who gets less, this is obviously a bad thing.

从那些寿命较短的人的角度来看，这显而易件是件坏事。

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Well, we might say, let's look at it from two basic perspectives, those who get less than the average lifespan and those who get more than the average lifespan.

我们可能会说，我们从两个基本角度来看，即那些活得比平均寿命短的,还有那些活得比平均寿命长的。

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But we might then wonder, for every person who gets less than the average amount of life-- suppose we take the median, take the amount of life that's exactly, 50 percent of the people get more, 50 percent of the people get less.

但是接着我们可能会想，对于所有活得比平均寿命要短的人-,假设我们取中间数，相对于平均寿命，刚好五成的人活得更长，五成的人活得更短。

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