Doctors hope that a patient may someday pay about one thousand dollars for a completed genome.

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That means that people will pay up front for about fifteen years' earnings.

这意味着人们需要预先支付,15年的收益

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But now that's a two bedroom and they each pay about two thousand a month,

那套房子有两间卧室，每间卧室每月2000美金，

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But why? What is it about the facts about life and death that seem to make it misguided to think ? we should just put them aside and pay no attention to them?

但是为什么？，关于生和死的什么事实,似乎让我们误以为,我们应该把它们撇到一边，置之不理？

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Anyway, the person wrote-- he was talking about fires and was proposing that people should pay 1% of the value of the home every year into a fund and then the fund would be used to replace the home if it burned down.

反正,这人写道...,他当时是讨论火灾,并提出,人们应该每年将自己房屋价值的1%的金额,交给一个基金会,那么如果有房子烧毁了,基金会就可以用这笔钱来重建它

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