While young and old mostly agree on what constitutes the finish line of a fulfilling life, they offer strikingly different paths for reaching it.

尽管年轻人和老年人在“什么构成了成功人生的终点线”这一问题上基本达成了一致，但他们提出的到达终点线的路径截然不同。

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But while young and old mostly agree on what constitutes the finish line of a fulfilling life, they offer strikingly different paths for reaching it.

尽管年轻人和老年人对于充实人生应该达到怎样的标准基本达成了一致，他们提出的实现方式却截然不同。

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MARTIN: Gregory Williams wrote the book "Life on the Color Line: the True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered he Was Black."

马丁：格雷戈里·威廉姆斯写了一本书名叫《生活在种族界限中，一个白人男孩发现他原来是黑人的真实故事》。

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We know that an American should -- who puts his life on the line, her life on the line, should never have to fight for a job when they come home.

WHITEHOUSE: President Obama at Clinton Global Initiative

Virgin Vodka had a short life on store shelves, squandering Branson's hope for a line of Virgin Vodka bars.

FORBES: Red Baron

What is more, it strikes me as perfectly possible that the overall welfare of a wild seal, suddenly killed on an ice floe, is better than the life endured by an intensively reared farm animal killed on a production line after being driven to an abattoir on a lorry.

ECONOMIST: European politics