Some older workers may have retired early, even if that meant living off of a smaller nest egg and accepting lower living standards.

一些年纪大的工人则可能提前退休，即使那意味着只能靠着更少的养老金生活，从而只能接受更低的生活标准。

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The trap meant that higher populations merely brought lower living standards (until 1760, the best time to have been a British labourer was after the Black Death).

马氏陷阱意味着高人口仅仅带来的是低生活水平(直至1760年，在英国做农民的最佳时机是在黑死病事件发生之后)。

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The New World removed Malthusian constraints, which, until then, had meant that higher population growth could be achieved only at the expense of lower living standards.

新大陆摆脱了马尔萨斯主义的羁绊。 在当时，马尔萨斯理论即意味着只能通过降低生活水平实现人口的更快增长。

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"This labor not only takes lower wages,but accepts a standard of living so low that the American working man cannot compete with it."

VOA: special.2010.05.20

We differ from lower animals and our brains, which are much more capable of storing and processing information, but we're living in a time of revolution when machines are challenging or competing with our brains.

我们不同于其他低等动物，我们的大脑更能够存储和处理信息，不过身处改革年代,机器开始挑战甚至是,和我们的大脑开始竞争。

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"We believe that,long term, Mexico is going to be a wonderful opportunity for retirees to live,the cost of medical services and health-related issues, but also the overall cost of living in Mexico is far lower."

VOA: special.2011.06.13

Otherwise, schools in London will continue to lose staff, lured by lower living costs elsewhere, he added.

BBC: Teachers threaten living costs strike

The drawback, for Mr Karimov, is the possibility of social unrest if the reforms led to unemployment and lower living standards, however temporary.

ECONOMIST: Uzbekistan

More importantly, the entire region still suffers from a huge "convergence gap" with the West, marked by lower living standards and poorer infrastructure.

BBC: Europe's Eastern periphery