They have little time left in office and not much power.

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If you did know how much time you had left, ? how would you act differently from what you're doing now?

如果你确实知道了自己还剩多少时间，你会和你现在的行为有不同吗？

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And from that perspective it looks as though it would be better to know how much time you've got left.

从这个角度来看,你知道自己剩下多少时间似乎更好。

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Would you want to know exactly how much time you've got left?

你想知道自己还剩下多少时间吗？

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Suppose that there were some sort of genetic marker and, although we didn't have a tattoo that you would just have to look at, -- but you could have genetic counseling-- have your DNA examined and you could tell, if you had the DNA testing, how much time you had left.

假设有某种基因标记，虽然我们没有,让你不得不去看的在身上的标记了，但你可能会去做基因咨询-,检查你的DNA，如果你做了DNA化验的话，你就能知道自己还剩多少时间。

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