Over the last couple of years, we can get reasonable measurements of human activities that were hidden from us.

在过去的几年中，人类能够通过适当的方式去测量人的大脑,在以前我们根本无法做到。

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I worked in various different bits of law over the last couple of years.

在过去的很多年里，我做了很多法律方面的工作。

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And those things taken together have pushed the growth rate by couple of percentage points beyond what India's trade growth rate has been in the last 25 years.

所有因素综合起来,大大促进了印度经济的发展,使印度的贸易增长额,较过去的25年,有了显著增长。

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The expected life spans increased dramatically in the last couple of hundred years until now, for people that were born when you were born you can expect to live to be 80 years old, a doubling in life span, fairly dramatic.

从几百年前到现在,预期寿命显著增长了,你们同期出生的那批人,能够活到八十岁,预期寿命增长了一倍,令人印象深刻

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