And I imagine that for most of you, when you ask yourself, would you want your entire life ? to be spent hooked up to the experience machine?

我想你们中多数人，当你们自问，是否愿意,在体验机器上度过一生？

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They would pull out your entire life history of contributions-- they had it because you had filed it all at the post office and everything was bureaucratic and efficient-- and they calculated, according to a formula, what you would get.

政府会取出你这一生的交保记录-,这是由你自己在邮局填写的,所有的一切都行之有效-,然后他们根据公式计算你能得到养老金。

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- After all, if you knew-- suppose we had the birthmarks that told you -- when you were going to die-- if you had that kind of a birthmark, you would face your entire life with the burden of knowing, I've got 48 years left, 47 years left, 50 years left.

毕竟，如果你知道-,假设我们有个胎记能告诉你,你什么时候去世-,如果你有那种胎记，你一辈子都将面对那种知情的压力，我还剩48年，还剩47年，还剩50年。

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