Long-term commitment in relationships is tied to a greater sense of life satisfaction, happiness and a host of practical benefits, such as shared assets and children, research shows.

研究表明，长期的婚恋关系可以给人们带来更强烈的生活满足感和幸福感，还有一系列实际的好处，比如说分享资产和共同养育孩子。

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This minimizes the entire life cycle carbon footprint of a product, providing a long-term emissions reduction solution, rather than looking at just one part of the cycle such as airfreight.

这便把一种产品整个生命周期中的碳排放减到了最低，由此提供了长期减少碳排放的方案。 这比只盯住产品周期中的一环——比如货物空运——要有效很多。

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And bodies such as Britain's National Work-Life Forum have sprung up, urging employers to end the long-hours culture among managers and to adopt family-friendly working policies.

诸如英国全国工作年限论坛这样的机构像雨后春笋般出现了，敦促雇主终止让管理人员长时间加班的做法，而采取能适应家庭生活的工作方式。

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Many such enterprises are kept on life-support as long as government staves off deflation.

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Yet the odds of life-long disability such as cerebral palsy, blindness or being unable to walk, has not changed, at about one in five.

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Although touch-screen has long permeated the more mundane aspects of modern life such as ticket machines and tills, and provided interactive novelties in the guise of museum guides and quiz machines, applying this technology to the PC is a far more complex task.

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