四级However, merely having contact with children does not guarantee happiness in old age.

然而，仅仅与孩子接触并不能保证老年时的幸福。

六级In this globalised age, there is a good case for international travel.

在这个全球化的时代，国际旅行是一个很好的例子。

考研Ellen Marram quit as chief of Tropicana a decade age, saying she wanted to be a CEO.

埃伦·马拉姆十年前辞去了Tropicana首席执行官的职务，说她想成为一名首席执行官。

四级The researchers are currently analyzing the study participants' health and lifestyle to see which factors might influence age-related cognitive changes.

研究人员目前正在分析研究参与者的健康和生活方式，看看哪些因素可能会影响与年龄相关的认知变化。

考研The family’s increasing poverty forced Dickens out of school at age 12 to work in Warren’s Blacking Warehouse, a shoe-polish factory, where the other working boys mocked him as "the young gentleman."

家庭日益贫困迫使狄更斯在12岁时辍学，在沃伦的涂黑仓库工作，这是一家鞋油厂，其他工人嘲笑他为“年轻绅士”

高考The cloisters museum and gardens is a branch of the metropolitan museum of art devoted to the art and architecture of Europe in the middle ages.

道院艺术博物馆博物馆和花园是大都会艺术博物馆的一个分支，致力于中世纪欧洲的艺术和建筑。

六级"Once we scale up, algorithms must be sensitive to tiny changes in identities and at the same time invariant to lighting, pose, age," Kemelmacher-Shlizerman said.

Kemelmacher Shlizerman说：“一旦我们扩大规模，算法必须对身份的微小变化敏感，同时对光线、姿势、年龄保持不变。”。

四级At middle age, he wrote, the sowing is behind; now is the time to reap.

他写道，到了中年，播种已经落后；现在是收获的时候了。

四级Psychologists have shown that babies apparently expect their world to comply with the laws of physics and cause and effect as early as two months of age.

心理学家已经表明，婴儿显然希望他们的世界在两个月大的时候就遵守物理定律和因果关系。

四级In a multi-stage life, you could be an undergraduate at 20, 40, or 60; a manager at 30, 50, or 70; and become an independent producer at any age.

在多阶段的生活中，你可以在20岁、40岁或60岁时成为本科生；30岁、50岁或70岁的经理；并在任何年龄成为独立制片人。

四级Today, the legal driving age for a car in the UK is 17.

如今，英国汽车的法定驾驶年龄是17岁。

六级This suggests that babies of that age can tell the difference between a happy melody and a sad tune.

这表明那个年龄的婴儿能分辨出快乐的旋律和悲伤的曲调。

四级They function quite well even in old age.

即使在老年，它们的功能也相当好。

高考As he grows you also age, and your ambitions become more unachievable.

随着他的成长，你也会变老，你的雄心壮志也变得难以实现。

四级In a multi-state study of assisted living , for instance, University of North Carolina researchers found that a host of variables—the facility's type, size or age; whether a chain owned it; how attractive the neighborhood was—had no significant relationship to how the residents fared in terms of illness, mental decline, hospitalizations or mortality.

在一个多状态的辅助生活研究中，例如，北卡罗来那大学的研究人员发现了大量的变量，设施的类型、大小或年龄；连锁店是否拥有它；社区的吸引力与居民的疾病、精神衰退、住院或死亡率没有显著关系。

高考Restarting antitrust for the information age will not be easy but if govemments don't wants a data oconomy by a few giants, they must act soon.

在信息时代重新启动反垄断并非易事，但如果政府不想让少数几家巨头实施数据垄断，他们必须尽快采取行动。

六级Benjamin Franklin produced some of his best writings at the age of 84, and Pablo Picasso put brush to canvas right through his eighties.

本杰明·富兰克林（Benjamin Franklin）在84岁时创作了一些最优秀的作品，巴勃罗·毕加索（Pablo Picasso）在80多岁时就开始画笔。

四级with this variety will come the end of the close association of age and stage.

随着这一变化，年龄和阶段的密切联系将结束。

考研In the internet age, at least in theory ,this fraction can be much reduced.

在互联网时代，至少在理论上，这一比例可以大大降低。

高考From the earliest ages, they desire to help others, to share information and to participate in achieving common goals.

从最早的时候起，他们就渴望帮助他人，分享信息，参与实现共同目标。

考研As many people hit middle age, they often start to notice that their memory and mental clarity are not what they used to be.

随着许多人步入中年，他们往往开始注意到他们的记忆力和思维清晰性已不再是过去的样子。

六级And in 2010, the researchers reported that children aged 12 to 17 saw more athlete-endorsed food and beverage brand commercials than adults.

2010年，研究人员报告说，12至17岁的儿童观看的运动员代言的食品和饮料品牌广告比成年人多。

四级If you age more slowly over a longer time period, then you are in some sense younger for longer.

如果你在一段较长的时间内变老得更慢，那么从某种意义上说，你年轻的时间更长。

考研In the Internet age, it is particularly easy to see the resentment that has always been hidden within American society.

在互联网时代，人们特别容易看到隐藏在美国社会中的怨恨。

考研The most likely reason for departing a board was age, so the researchers concentrated on those "surprise" disappearances by directors under the age of 70.

离开董事会最有可能的原因是年龄，因此研究人员将注意力集中在那些70岁以下董事“意外”失踪的案例上。

高考They were of the same age.

他们同龄。

高考Now similar concerns ares being raised by the giants that deal in data, the oil of the digital age.

如今，数字时代的石油数据巨头也提出了类似的担忧。

高考One is that these instincts appear at a very young age before most parents have started to train children to behave socially.

一是这些本能在很小的时候就出现了，在大多数父母开始训练孩子学会社交之前。

四级They reach a peak at the age of 20 for most people.

对大多数人来说，他们在20岁时达到顶峰。

六级Evolutionarily speaking, people in this age group are at a stage in which they can prepare to find a mate and start their own family while separating from parents and striking out on their own.

从进化的角度讲，这个年龄段的人正处于这样一个阶段：他们可以在与父母分离并独自外出的同时，准备寻找伴侣并组建自己的家庭。

六级The misconception of resilience is often bred from an early age, parents trying to teach their children resilience might celebrate a high school student staying up until 3am to finish a science fair project.

对恢复力的误解通常是从小培养出来的，试图教孩子恢复力的父母可能会庆祝一个高中生熬夜到凌晨3点完成一个科学展项目。

四级By 2014, that milestone (里程碑) had shifted to age 29.

到2014年，这是一个里程碑(里程碑) 已经到了29岁。

高考As the average age of the population increases, there are more and more old people to care for.

随着人口平均年龄的增长，需要照顾的老年人越来越多。

六级All 67 participants were over 60 years of age, and both groups lost about the same amount of weight.

所有67名参与者都超过60岁，两组人的体重减轻量大致相同。

高考Of course! It's been ages since we met last time.

当然我们好久没见面了。

六级This is a grand challenge for our age and it may require an "irrational" response.

这对我们这个时代来说是一个巨大的挑战，可能需要一种“非理性”的反应。

四级On the first of January, new regulations will come into effect which eliminate an annual leave bonus for people who put off marrying until the age of 23 for women and 25 for men, the South China Morning Post reports.

据《南华早报》报道，新规定将于1月1日生效，取消对女性推迟到23岁结婚、男性推迟到25岁结婚的人的年假奖金。

考研The conflict has been surfacing since 2002, when the corporation bought Vermont’s only nuclear power plant, an aging reactor in Vernon.

自2002年该公司收购佛蒙特州唯一的核电站——弗农一座老化的反应堆以来，这场冲突就一直浮出水面。

高考Every man, woman, and child over ten years of age has on average over four cups a day.

每个超过十岁的男人、女人和孩子平均每天喝四杯以上。

高考Thanks to the advanced technology, we live in an age of bettered communication.

多亏了先进的技术，我们生活在一个交流更加便利的时代。

高考The digital age cannot destroy it.

数字时代无法摧毁它。

四级I want to make sure that older adults are still able to enjoy their old age, and that they're not spending time in hospital with infections, feeling unwell and being generally weak.

我想确保老年人仍然能够享受他们的晚年，他们不会因为感染、不适和身体虚弱而住院。

四级This is especially interesting when you consider that younger people are generally more interested in travelrelated technologies than older onesWhen it comes to driverless cars, differences in attitude are more pronounced based on factors not related to age.

当你考虑到年轻人对旅行相关的技术更感兴趣时，这一点尤其有趣。当涉及无人驾驶汽车时，态度的差异在与年龄无关的因素的基础上更为明显。

高考After all, many older people don't begin to experience physical and mental decline until after age 75.

毕竟，许多老年人直到75岁以后才开始经历身心衰退。

六级But telling them that eating lots of high-fiber foods could reduce the risk of breast cancer before middle age, that's a powerful message.

但是告诉他们吃大量高纤维食物可以降低中年前患乳腺癌的风险，这是一个强有力的信息。

四级So say "good night" sooner and it may help you stay active and vital to a ripe old age.

所以，早点说“晚安”，它可能会帮助你保持活力，对成熟的晚年至关重要。

高考For most school-age children, ten hours is ideal.

对大多数学龄儿童来说，十小时是理想的。

高考If those island nations not far above sea level are to survive, the maximum temperature rise, since the start of the industrial age, should be 0.

如果这些离海平面不远的岛国要生存下去，自工业时代开始以来的最大温升应该是0。

四级Longevity also pushes back the age of retirement, and not only for financial reasons.

长寿也会推迟退休年龄，不仅仅是因为经济原因。

六级Though he didn't come from a farming family, from a young age tim Joseph was fascinated by the idea of living off the land.

尽管蒂姆·约瑟夫不是来自一个农业家庭，但从很小的时候起，他就对靠土地生活的想法着迷。

四级Even in the age of open-plan offices and social networks some work is best left to the individual.

即使在开放式办公室和社交网络的时代，一些工作最好留给个人。

高考I had a learning disability from an early age.

我从小就有学习障碍。

高考Now we need volunteer managers aged 25-75.

现在我们需要25-75岁的志愿者经理。

六级This is the story of wildlife conservation in the age of mass extinction.

这是大灭绝时代野生动物保护的故事。

高考The report data shows that pleasure reading levels for younger children, ages 2-8, remain largely the same.

报告数据显示，2-8岁幼儿的阅读乐趣水平基本保持不变。

高考The friendship that grew out of the experience of making that film and the sting four years later had its root in the fact that although there was an age difference, we both came from a tradition of theater and live TV.

从制作那部电影和四年后的《刺痛》的经历中产生的友谊的根源在于，尽管存在年龄差异，但我们都来自戏剧和电视直播的传统。

考研The first step, as Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew MeAfee argue in The Second Machine Age, should be rethinking education and job training.

正如埃里克·布林约夫森（Erik Brynjolfsson）和安德鲁·米菲（Andrew MeAfee）在《第二个机器时代》（The Second Machine Age）中所说，第一步应该是重新思考教育和职业培训。

六级You probably remember that human infants are less developed physically than other mammals of the same age.

你可能还记得，人类婴儿的身体发育不如同龄的其他哺乳动物。

高考The attraction of the cloisters museum and gardens lies in the fact that its collections date from the middle ages.

修道院博物馆和花园的吸引力在于它的藏品可以追溯到中世纪。

六级Cognitive decline is the loss of ability to learn new skills, or recall words, names, and faces that is most common as we age.

认知衰退是指随着年龄的增长，学习新技能或回忆单词、姓名和面孔的能力的丧失。

高考Benjamin west, the father of American painting, showed his talent for art when he was only six years of age.

美国绘画之父本杰明·韦斯特（Benjamin west）在六岁时就展示了他的艺术天赋。

四级It was like living in an age you could never have imagined, and that never has come back.

这就像生活在一个你无法想象的时代，而这个时代永远不会回来。

六级The wireless age is expanding to include not just our phones, tablets, and laptops, but also our cars, homes, and even whole communities.

无线时代正在扩展，不仅包括我们的手机、平板电脑和笔记本电脑，还包括我们的汽车、家庭，甚至整个社区。

六级Psychologists have documented children lying as early as the age of two.

心理学家记录了儿童早在两岁时就撒谎的情况。

高考Middle-aged homemakers, retirees, and the unemployed come to such cafes to talk about love, anger, and dreams with a psychologist.

中年家庭主妇、退休人员和失业者来到这些咖啡馆，与心理学家谈论爱情、愤怒和梦想。

考研A Knight Foundation focus-group survey of young people between ages 14 and 24 found they use.

14岁至24岁的年轻人的骑士基金会焦点小组调查发现他们使用。

四级Of course, I had heard that genius could show itself at an early age, so I was only slightly taken aback that I had achieved perfection at the tender age of 14.

当然，我听说天才可以在很小的时候就表现出来，所以我对自己在14岁的时候就达到了完美的境界感到有点吃惊。

四级But they continue to age, because aging is separate from their disease, Hayflick said.

但他们继续衰老，因为衰老与疾病是分开的，Hayflick说。

高考In total, 25% of india's working-age population has no education.

总的来说，印度25%的工作年龄人口没有受过教育。

四级In other words, is it right for convicted murderers who kill when they are minors—that is under the age of 18—to receive the death penalty?

换言之，被定罪的杀人犯在未满18岁时杀人，是否应该被判处死刑？

高考Between the ages of about 12 and 50, women produce hormones that are involved in fertility (生育能力).

在12岁到50岁之间，女性会产生与生育有关的激素(生育能力).

六级The Mediterranean groups had lower mortality rates in all age brackets and from all causes, particularly from heart disease.

地中海人群在所有年龄段和各种原因中的死亡率都较低，尤其是心脏病。

高考"I thought it would be useful for him to learn Chinese at an early age" Joseph Stocke, the managing director of a company, says of his 2-year old son.

一家公司的董事总经理约瑟夫·斯托克（Joseph Stocke）谈到他两岁的儿子时说：“我认为他在很小的时候学习汉语会很有用。”。

高考Many bad habits can be especially difficult to cure because they are likely to have been formed at a very young age.

许多坏习惯很难治愈，因为它们很可能是在很小的时候形成的。

六级You will face problems in the aging of the population that have never been faced before.

你们将面临前所未有的人口老龄化问题。

高考At age five, this dull task brought me such joy.

五岁的时候，这项枯燥的工作给我带来了如此的快乐。

四级It's also the age range when many women are trying to balance careers and home.

这也是许多女性试图平衡职业和家庭的年龄范围。

六级In thousands of ways, social workers help other people—people from every age, every background across the country.

社会工作者以数千种方式帮助全国各地不同年龄、不同背景的人。

高考At which place can people of different ages enjoy a good laugh?

不同年龄的人在哪个地方可以尽情地笑？

高考Today, many men and women in their "golden years" are healthy, still active, and young in mind if not in age.

今天，许多处于“黄金时代”的男性和女性都很健康，仍然很活跃，即使没有年龄，他们的思想也很年轻。

高考At the age of 18, he moved to the united states.

18岁时，他搬到了美国。

四级This may not be surprising given that this is the age range when women have children.

这可能并不奇怪，因为这是女性生育孩子的年龄范围。

四级This turn of events is fueled primarily by the dramatic drop in the share of young Americans who are choosing to settle down romantically before age.

这一事件的转变主要是由于选择在成年前浪漫定居的美国年轻人比例急剧下降。

四级So far, participants have ranged in age from 2 to 85.

到目前为止，参与者的年龄从2岁到85岁不等。

高考According to the passage, why did snowmen become a phenomenon in the middle ages?

根据短文，为什么雪人在中世纪成为一种现象？

四级Our philosophy is to inspire kids at a young age to understand that engineering is a great career.

我们的理念是鼓励孩子们在很小的时候就明白工程是一项伟大的事业。

考研At the start of this century, about one-third of crop workers were over the age of 35.

在本世纪初，大约三分之一的庄稼工人年龄在35岁以上。

四级More people who lived in cities and suburbs said they wanted to try driverless cars than those who lived in rural areasWhile there's reason to believe that interest in self-driving cars is going up across the board, a person's age will have little to do with how self-driving cars can become mainstream.

居住在城市和郊区的人表示，他们想尝试无人驾驶汽车的人数多于居住在农村地区的人。尽管有理由相信人们对自动驾驶汽车的兴趣正在全面上升，但一个人的年龄与自动驾驶汽车如何成为主流没有多大关系。

四级Life Reimagined paints a picture of middle age that is far from gloomy.

重新想象的生活描绘了一幅远非悲观的中年景象。

六级The wireless age is expanding to include not just our phones, tablets, and laptops, but also our cars, homes, and even whole communities.

无线时代正在扩展，不仅包括我们的手机、平板电脑和笔记本电脑，还包括我们的汽车、家庭，甚至整个社区。

四级Declining mental function is often seen as a problem of old age, but certain aspects of brain function actually begin their decline in young adulthood, a new study suggests.

一项新的研究表明，精神功能衰退通常被视为老年人的一个问题，但大脑功能的某些方面实际上是在年轻成年人开始衰退的。

高考As a matter of fact, we can see this principle at work in people of all ages.

事实上，我们可以在各个年龄段的人身上看到这一原则的作用。

四级It is a mistake to simply equate longevity长寿with issues of old age.

简单地把长寿等同起来是错误的长寿关于老年问题。

六级Still, there are good reasons to make positive changes in how we live and what we eat as we age.

尽管如此，随着年龄的增长，我们仍有充分的理由积极改变我们的生活方式和饮食习惯。

高考Freedom can be more popular in the digital age.

在数字时代，自由可能更受欢迎。

四级Emailing the neuroscientist and memory researcher jim McGaugh one day, she claimed that she could recall every day of her life since the age of 12.

有一天，她在给神经学家兼记忆研究者吉姆·麦格（jim McGaugh）发电子邮件时声称，她能回忆起12岁以来的每一天。

高考How much sleep you need depends a lot on your age.

你需要多少睡眠在很大程度上取决于你的年龄。

考研The Renaissance was over and it was time for a new era-the Age of Reason.

文艺复兴已经结束，是时候进入理性时代了。

四级Everything about the look and feel of a wallet—the way the fastenings and materials wear and tear and loosen with age, the plastic and paper and gold and silver, and handwritten phone numbers and printed cinema tickets—is the very opposite of what our world is becoming.

钱包的外观和感觉——扣件和材料随着年龄的增长而磨损和松动，塑料、纸张、金银、手写电话号码和印刷电影票——与我们的世界正相反。

高考However, those in the 10 to 12 age group were "concerned with how many people like their posts", suggesting a "need" for social recognition that gets stronger the older they become.

然而，10至12岁年龄组的人“关心有多少人喜欢他们的职位”，这表明他们“需要”社会认可，这种认可随着年龄的增长而变得更加强烈。