it's a pity that I'm going to die or die too soon, but at least I'm getting more than the average.

我死得太早是很遗憾，但至少我活得比平均寿命长。

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You can think, " look, "the average lifespan in the United States " is whatever it is, 82 years.

你可以说，“美国人的平均寿命,“是82岁。

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Back in the 1840s, life insurance was very important because the average expectancy of life was only something like forty-five years, so that meant parents were dying left and right.

在19世纪40年代的时候,寿险是非常重要的,因为当时的人均期望寿命,仅为45岁左右,这意味着双亲平均只能活到45岁

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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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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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There are people who are basically screwed by the fact that they get less than the average amount and people who are benefited by getting more than the average amount.

有些人为此而感到痛苦,因为他们活得比平均寿命短,有些人则得到了额外好处,因为他们活得比平均寿命长。

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Well, it was fairly low, right?

如果人们的平均寿命是45岁

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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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