“在这之前，”园丁说，“打水了的活是我的驴干的，但是现在这个可怜的牲口快要死了。”

"Until today," said the Farmer, "my donkey has drawn the water for me, but now that poor animal is dying."

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在现在的一些农业大学里，年轻人在接受大学的理论培训之前，必须在农场干上一年的活。

In some agricultural colleges at the present time, young men have to do a year's work on a farm before their theoretical training at college.

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一边，又有人告诉我们要为现在而活，要对我们所拥有的充满感恩。

The next, we are told to live in the now and be thankful for what we have.

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And not what we've got now, where you live after a mere drop of 50 or 80 or 100 years.

也不是现在的情况，活到50，80，百岁时就要死去。

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The person who's here now hasn't been around 10 years, 20 years, what have you.

现在坐在这里的人,活了还没有10年，20年。

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Why are people living longer than they did just a few hundred years ago?

为什么现在的人,比仅仅是几百年前的人活得更久

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