If you think life is wonderful and expect it to stay that way, then you may have a good chance of living to a ripe old age, at least that is what the findings of a new study suggest.

如果你认为生活是美好的，并且希望它一直如此，那么你很有可能会活到高龄，至少一项新研究的结论表明如此。

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TV chef said: "As a professional chef I expect to spend the majority of my life working in the kitchen."

一位电视厨师说，“作为职业厨师，我认为花大部分时间在厨房里工作是可以的。”

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The unnervingly upbeat tune wraps lyrics about the frailty of life around the type of instrumentation you would expect to hear during dinner on a Carnival cruise ship.

在那种你会在狂欢邮轮的晚宴上听到的那种音乐烘托中，令人不安的弱拍环绕着讲述生命脆弱的歌词。

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They did not expect an easy life. And as time passed, they found solutions to most of the problems of farming on the Great Plains.

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The researchers found a 14-year difference in life expectancy between Asian-American and African-American men who can expect to live an average of 67 years.

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That 90% who go with the flow are becoming ever smarter and more demanding of what they expect out of life.

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She was wary, trained to expect little of life, grateful for small pleasures, on her guard against promises, accustomed to making the best of things, in the habit of both wanting and not daring to want something more.

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These initial rates are often represented and illustrated as what the consumer can expect over the life of the contract.

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