About a century ago, the average life-span for Americans was about 50 years.
约一个世纪以前,美国的人均寿命是50岁左右。
The parties he formed, like all Korean parties (in P.J. o 「rourke」s words) had 「the average life-span of a trout-stream mayfly hatch」.
他组建的政党,像其他韩国政党一样,用P. J .oRourke的话说,「其平均寿命就像鳟鱼溪里一只蜉蝣的孵化时间」。
But with the improvement of living standard and the prolongation of average life-span the regulations gradually show their defects.
随着生活水平的提高,人均寿命的延长,这一规定逐渐显示出其弊端。
With the tremendous progress of medical science, infectious diseases have been brought under control, average life-span prolonged and causes of death altered.
医药卫生的巨大发展使传染病得到了控制,人均寿命普遍延长,死因构成发生变化。