Maybe it's because some of us spent our lives working our way up the corporate ladder, and others just married someone who did.

也许是因为们有些人耗费毕生时间顺着企业晋之梯向上，有些人仅仅是嫁了这样的人已。

Too many people spend their lives working on jobs they hate because they're afraid.

太多人因为害怕在他们厌恶的工作中度过的一生。

Builders are comfortable in the belief that their life's work will one day be bigger than them–bigger than any one person.

建设者们一想到自己奉献的工作将比他们自身还要伟大，将比任何一个人类还要伟大时，他们便十分欣慰。

They spend their whole life working for one goal.

他们都花了一辈子的时间，苦苦追寻一个目标。

And while our friends at " Great Big Story" tell us that we should never try to touch a manta ray in the wild, they did follow a woman whose life's work is to do just that.

在《大故事》中，们的朋友们告诉们，们永远不要尝试在野外触摸蝠鲼，但有个女人，她的工作就去做那样的事。

Leonid Vasilenko has spent most of his adult life working in the Arctic and Antarctic.

Leonid Vasilenko 成年后大部分时间都在北极和南极工作。

But for Zeno of Cyprus, it became the foundation of his life's work and legacy.

但是对于塞浦路斯的芝诺来说，这样的困境成为了他一生工作和财产的基础。

NVIDIA, the body of work I share with 45,000 extraordinary colleagues, is my life's work.

英伟达，是与4.5万名优秀同仁共同铸就的事业，也是毕生的。

Nitrogen is non-negotiable for the chemical processes that make life work.

氮对于生命运作的化学过程是不可或缺的。

So, some people have made it their life's work to connect the two: claiming food before goes to waste and then giving it to people who are hungry.

因此，一些人的日常工作就是将二者联系起来：在食物被浪费之前进行回收，然后送给饥饿的人。

Still a toddler, Frankl's life work had already started to take shape.

弗兰克尔还是个蹒跚学步的孩子时，他的人生事业就已经露出苗头。

Founding Mother's Day, and aggressively protecting her ownership of the holiday, became her life's work.

创办母亲节并积极保护其所有权，成为了她一生的事业。

But, while he was there, he stumbled upon his life's work.

但是，当他在那里时，他偶然发现了他此生的事业。

I am not hurting her. In fact, making her shine is my life's work.

没有伤害她，事实上，的任务就是让她散发光芒。

Camera hunting is a life work that I would not advise for many people.

照相机狩猎是一生所追求的工作，不建议人们参与其中。

But somehow, answering these weird questions and sharing those experiences have become my life's work.

可不知怎的，回答这些奇特问题并分享经历，竟成了的日常工作。

But it also reveals the intricate web of connections that make life work.

但它也揭示了使生命运转的错综复杂的联系网络。

Albert Einstein once expressed dismay about the " exaggerated esteem" won by his life's work.

爱因斯坦曾表达过对于他毕生事业赢得的“夸大的敬重”的忧虑。

If you pick up a trade or need to work to support yourself or others, the serious side of life begins earlier, if you go to university you get to push back work life a bit longer.

如果你开始做生意或需要工作 以养活自己或他人，那么人生严肃的一面就早一点开始，如果你了上大学， 你得以把工作人生推迟一点。

If you spend a typical 45 years of your life working full-time at 40 hours a week, this amounts to 93 thousand and six hundred hours or twelve years of time which brings a total down to 38 years.

如果你一生中有 45 年都在做全职工作，每周工作 40 个小时，那么总共就是九万三千六百小时，也就是 12 年，那么使总数就减少到了 38 年。