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What's the meaning of this words? Fifty years is a long time, although considerably shorter now that my wife Jenny and I, are within a decade of our own 50th anniversary.
Jul 14, 2016 9:08 AM
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I think they're referring to the tendency of the passage of time to accelerate as we age. Older people often tell me this, and as I get older time does seem to pass faster. So now that they have been married for over 40 years, and must be 60-something, 50 years seems like a shorter time than it did when they were young.
July 14, 2016
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I suppose that the writer is saying that when you have experienced something for 50 years, 50 years doesn't seem so long.
July 14, 2016
the entire paragraph, please
July 14, 2016
Do you want to know what the entire paragraph means or are there specific words you don't know?
July 14, 2016
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Tek-tsy
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Chinese (Mandarin), Chinese (Shanghainese), English, French
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