Various interventions, such as infection-fighting drugs, can increase a population's average survival time, but only approaches that slow the body's rate of aging will increase the maximum lifespan.

各种干预措施，如抗感染药物，可以增加人口的平均存活时间，但只有那些减缓人体衰老速度的方法才能延长最长寿命。

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This month's increase pushed the main rate up by 6%, comfortably ahead of average earnings which went up by 4.4% in the past year.

本月最低标准的上涨使得主要标准增加了6%，大大超过了平均工资水平的提高幅度，后者在去年上升了4.4%。

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The average rate on dutiable goods rose from 40% to 48%, implying a price increase of only 6%.

应税品平均税率从40%上升到48%，即进口物品价格仅上涨6%。

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The doves also have an exhibit from the labour market to back their case: the decline in the rate of increase in average earnings in the past six months from over 6% to less than 4% a year.

ECONOMIST: Interest rates

At the current 3 percent CPI inflation rate, the average level of money prices would increase by 34 percent in a decade, and by 81 percent in 20 years.

FORBES: The Federal Reserve's Crony Capitalism

At yesterday's investor meeting in Taipei, TSMC's chairman and CEO Morris Chang shared the good news that his company's 28nm chip shipment this year will triple that of last year, which should boost its annual increase in revenue to above the industry's average rate of seven percent.

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