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乔担心支出会加重未来几代的压力。

Joe fears spending that will burden future generations.

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相似地，城市居民与自然的距离比前几代的更远了。

Likewise, town dwellers are more distanced from the natural world than earlier generations were.

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But since life expectancy in the Ancient World was much less than ours, you didn't have usually several generations in these households, because older people just died.

但是古代人的寿命没我们长，一般不会出现几代同堂，因为年纪大了去世了。

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