The good life consists of having a decent job, a decent standard of living and a nice family, not of fighting for justice or saving whales.

美好的生活意味着一份体面的工作，高质量生活环境和一个美满的家庭，并不是什么为公平而战或是拯救鲸鱼之类的。

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So I think it means that for the long term, there's an awful lot of work to raise Afghanistan up to a decent standard of living and a decent way of life.

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