Atomic energy has been discovered for many years, but so far it has not been widely used in industry or in our daily life.

原子能已发现多年，但至今仍未广泛用于工业或日常生活方面。

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We’ve learned how to make a living, but not a life; we’ve added years to life, not life to years.

我们学会了如何谋生，而不知如何生活。 我们延长了生命的期限，而不是生活的期限。

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Suppose you've spent months — if not years — of your life learning the hottest Web technologies.

假设您已经付出了几个月乃至几年的时间来学习最热门的Web技术。

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Chad Isaak, who has fished the Illinois River for 27 years, he saw his first Asian carp in 1996, and his life as a commercial fisherman has not been the same since.

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Extending life expectancy is not a benefit if the last years of life are spent in painful and undignified circumstances.

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And what was remarkable was there was not a trace of bitterness in her for these people who had destroyed this forest, and whom she had to spend two years of her life not two weeks, not two days putting her body on the line to fight.

NEWYORKER: Greening the Ghetto

This isotope, with a half-life of 2.6 million years, is not made in significant quantities by any process on Earth, but is expelled by supernovae.

FORBES: Ancient Supernova Explosions Left Their Scars on Earth