She said the study confirmed earlier research that linked optimistic feelings to longer life.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

We imagine instead of living 80 years,living 90 or 95 or more We imagine a longer life But what is it that happens when I say ? if only I'd been born earlier?

我们想象不仅活80，90或95岁,我们想象能活更长时间,但如果我想象早点出生,会发生什么情况？

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These are bads of life that could presumably be avoided if only we knew how much exactly we had--how much longer we had.

生命中的一些坏处可以被认为是可避免的,只要我们知道我们到底还有多少，还有多少时间。

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The iPhone 4 is faster,thinner, has a longer battery life, and it features video calling.

VOA: standard.2010.06.25

One of the other things that happened during the twentieth century is that human life expectancy increased dramatically, people started living a lot longer.

在二十世纪发生的另一大变化是,人类的寿命预期显著增长了,人们活的更久了

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It gives foods a longer shelf life, and so things like pastries and individual wrapped packages have a very long shelf life, longer than if they don't have Trans fats.

它增长了食物的保质期,让糕点和独立包装的食品等能存放很久,比不含反式脂肪的食品存放时间长

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One of the reasons why the Milgram experiment is so nice to know is that if this ever happens to you, not as an experiment but in real life, it will no longer be new to you.

其中一个原因,为什么我们都应该知道米尔格林姆实验,就是如果这种情况发生在你身上，我不是说实验，而是在现实生活中，你不再对这种情况一无所知。

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And the various other external goods of life, they can't--because they're bedridden, they can no longer accomplish things, perhaps their family has abandoned them.

而生活中其他美好的事情，他们得到不，因为他们卧床不起，他们无法再有所成就，也许他们的家人已经放弃他们了。

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But if life would no longer have anything good to offer you, if what you then would have had would have been something negative instead of something positive, then at that point, dying wouldn't actually be a bad thing.

但是当生命再也不能向你提供美好，届时我们面对的是,消极的而非积极的东西，那时死亡可能不是一件坏事。

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Somebody dies at age 10 by some horrible disease better if they'd made it up to 40 Somebody dies at age 40,better if they'd made it up to 80 Somebody dies at age 80,better if they'd made it to 100,120 Is it true that life would get better and better and better ? the longer it is?

有人10岁得重病死去,如果能活到40岁更好0,有人40岁死去，如果或80岁更好0,有人80岁死去，如果活,100，120岁更好0,生命真的会越长越好,越长越好吗？

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