He wants to find a way to not so much redeem as affirm time and age and understand them not simply as a cause of despair or as a cause of defeat.

他想找到一种方式，不是去挽回,时间或年龄，而是承认它们,不将其仅仅理解为绝望或失败的原因。

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But as you get older and you have a lot of spare time, you think about what you are doing, which is something I have the luxury of doing right now, and I realized this is more tricky.

但随着你们年龄的增长,有更多空闲时间之后,你就会思考你做的事情,我现在就有很多闲暇思考这些问题,我意识到这东西其实很精妙

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However I do that, I know that should inherently take more time than it takes to compute the average age of all the EECS faculty.

然而我得这么做，我知道,这比计算所有EECS的教员的,平均年龄要,占用更长的时间。

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