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After celebrating her 60th year on the throne in style this past week, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II can now look forward to breaking some more records. She is already, at 86, Britain's oldest monarch (were she to die now, her son would immediately be the 12th oldest). On Sept. 10, 2017, she would pass Queen Victoria to become the longest-reigning monarch in British history. To beat Louis XIV (who succeeded to the throne at the age of 4) for the longest reign in European history, she would have to live to 98. 在风风光光庆祝完自己登基60周年后，英国女王伊丽莎白二世（Queen Elizabeth II）现在可以期待打破更多纪录了。86岁的她已经是英国历史上最年长的君主了（如果她现在离世，她的儿子就会立即成为第12年长的君主）。到2017年9月10日，她将会超越维多利亚女王（Queen Victoria），成为英国历史上在位时间最长的君主。要打败四岁时继承王位的路易十四（Louis XIV）成为欧洲历史上在位时间最长的君主，她需要活到98岁。 Elizabeth II is still going strong, but the maximum human lifespan isn't rising at anything like the rate of average life expectancy, which is rushing upward globally at the rate of about three months a year, mainly because of progress against premature mortality. Indeed, we may already have hit some kind of limit for maximum lifespan - perhaps because natural selection, with its strict focus on reproductive success, has no particular need to preserve genes that would keep us going to 150. | 
