We're losing our looks: it's a wake-up call to the fact that we won't go on forever, that one day in the no longer impossibly distant future, we're going to die.

我们不再能传承生命，也不再美貌，这是对我们不能永生的“叫醒电话”，我们将会在不久的将来死去。

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We all learn to live only when we no longer have anything to expect, because we do not live in the living present but in a vague and distant future.

唯有当我们不再有任何期盼之时，我们才完全开始学习生活，因为我们不在活在当下的生活之中，而是在一种茫昧与远在的未来。

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Once you have made your decision, although your mind tells you that your goal is off in some distant future and tries getting you to exert effort towards its "eventual" achievement, you say, "No."

一旦你做了你的决定，尽管你的理智告诉你你的目标还在某个遥不可及的未来，试图让你通过努力来取得“最后来到的”成就，你却说，“不，现在！”

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No matter what happens in the distant future, today Schiller is in the middle of the most exciting oil and gas play in the Gulf of Mexico, one whose true scope will become evident in 2011.

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The soprano needs no prompting to name the roles she expects to sing in the not-too-distant future.

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Unfortunately, there is no consensus on which methods and assumptions are most valid when calculating forward costs, especially costs incurred in the distant future.

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