expectation of lifeLIFEthe number of years that someone is likely to live 预期寿命 SYN life expectancyexpectation of life• Improvements in expectation of life are slight in the eighteenth century.• Second, women have a longer expectation of life than men.• The plaintiff is aged 30 and has a normal expectation of life.• When the normal expectation of life is very low, sickness and death are normal hazards.• She was given a very short expectation of life by the doctors.• Still less is it intended to mirror the expectation of life of the deceased or his dependants.• But what of the expectation of life of some one who has reached the age of forty?• About seven more years had been added to expectation of life up to 1901, after which the pace accelerated sharply.
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