一般女性总是比男性多活五到六年，原因还不得而知。

Women generally live five or six years longer than men, for reasons yet to be fathomed.

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五月最后一个星期一个闷热的晚上，母亲打电话到我宿舍来，想让我去外公外婆那儿度暑假，帮他们做做农场的活。

Mom called me at the dorm one muggy evening during the last week of May. My summer break would be spent with grandma and grandpa, helping out around their farm.

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负鼠在30摄氏度以上的环境中，活不过五个小时。

The possum cannot survive much more than five hours at temperatures over 30C.

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But we might then wonder, for every person who gets less than the average amount of life-- suppose we take the median, take the amount of life that's exactly, 50 percent of the people get more, 50 percent of the people get less.

但是接着我们可能会想，对于所有活得比平均寿命要短的人-,假设我们取中间数，相对于平均寿命，刚好五成的人活得更长，五成的人活得更短。

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