We can never afford to take time off from work to enjoy the things in life that we really want to, because our bills are so high.

我们无法从工作中抽出时间去享受生活中我们真正想要的东西，因为我们的账单额太高了。

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In other words, if they had been written off as starting out in life without the genetic advantages of high ability, their longer-term academic potential would have been wasted.

换句话说，如果他们在人之初就因为基因劣势而被取消了（受教育）资格的话，他们的长远人才潜力就被白白浪费了。

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This summer, Monika Lutz's life took an unusual turn. Instead of heading off to college, the high school graduate packed her bags for a Bengali jungle.

这个夏天，刚刚高中毕业的莫妮卡·露兹没有直接升入大学，而是有了一次独特的经历——去孟加拉丛林。

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Both the hospital authorities and the Andhra Pradesh high court refused his request to turn off his life support system, saying that would amount to an illegal mercy killing.

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The high school student from Halifax, Nova Scotia, was taken off life support Sunday.

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In 1894, Captain Alfred Dreyfus was secretly arrested, wrongfully convicted by a court martial of high treason, sentenced to life imprisonment, stripped of his military rank and shipped off in chains to solitary confinement in the sweltering heat of Devil's Island, a French territory off the coast of South America.

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