You want your life to be filled with change. The idea of spending a lifetime in one place doing one thing is very unpleasant, and you will do everything you can to prevent it.

你希望你的生活充满变化，一辈子生活在一个地方或只做一件事情，对你来说太痛苦了，你将会竭尽全力避免这种状况。

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Spending years (or a lifetime) in drudgery for future-promised happiness (ie. retirement).

苦苦的花了数年的时间(甚至是一生的时间)只是为了得到别人对未来承诺的那一点幸福；(比如退休)。

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Too often a lifetime value (LTV) analysis ends up being a justification for too much spending on non-organic marketing.

通常全周期价值(LTV)分析方法，最终成为广告花销过度的一个借口。

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Suchen wondered why the man, after spending almost a lifetime in India, had chosen to return.

NEWYORKER: Alone

It allows people to smooth their spending over a lifetime.

ECONOMIST: The financial crisis

You too have developed a Jedi-like ability to quickly skip over Lifetime, Oxygen, and The Hallmark Channel while spending a little more time on ESPN and the Sci-Fi Channel.

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