考研Factors such as the place and period in which we are reading, our gender ethnicity, age and social class will encourage us towards certain interpretation but at the same time obscure or even close off others.

我们阅读的地点和时间、性别、种族、年龄和社会阶层等因素会鼓励我们进行某些解读，但同时也会模糊甚至封闭其他解读。

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。

四级By age 15, he had become an apprentice (学徒) to Sylvain Bailly, a well-known dessert chef with a successful bakery in one of Paris' most fashionable neighborhoods.

到15岁时，他已成为一名学徒(学徒) Sylvain Bailly，一位著名的甜点厨师，在巴黎最时尚的街区之一拥有一家成功的面包店。

高考The baseline here is average global temperature before the start of the industrial age.

这里的基准是工业时代开始前的全球平均温度。

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Freedom's challenge in the digital age is a serious topic.

数字时代的自由挑战是一个严肃的话题。

四级A golden or lucky birthday is when one turns the age of their birth date.

黄金或幸运的生日是一个人的出生日期。

六级In a 2005 study, psychologist Laurence Steinberg of Temple University and his co-author, psychologist Margo Gardner, then at Temple, divided 6 people into three age groups: young adolescents, with a mean age of 14; older adolescents, with a mean age of 19

在2005年的一项研究中，坦普尔大学的心理学家劳伦斯·斯坦伯格（Laurence Steinberg）和他的合著者、当时在坦普尔大学的心理学家玛戈·加德纳（Margo Gardner）将6人分为三个年龄组：青少年，平均年龄14岁；年龄较大的青少年，平均年龄19岁

高考Whatever your age or interests, buxton has something to see or do to make your visit truly memorable.

无论你的年龄或兴趣如何，巴克斯顿都有一些事情要看或做，让你的访问真正令人难忘。

高考New compulsory age-appropriate relationship and sex education lessons in England should help equip children to deal with the growing demands of social media.

在英国，新的义务适龄关系和性教育课程应该有助于培养儿童应对社交媒体日益增长的需求。

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。

考研It was not until the mid-1980s, when amplifying age and sex differences became a dominant children's marketing strategy, that pink fully came into its own, when it began to seem inherently attractive to girls, part of what defined them as female, at least

直到20世纪80年代中期，扩大年龄和性别差异成为儿童的主要营销策略，粉红色才完全形成了自己的风格，开始对女孩具有天生的吸引力，至少是女性的一部分

四级Contemporary artists have followed this tradition to create eggs that speak to the anxieties of our age: Life is precious, and delicate.

当代艺术家遵循这一传统，创造出了能表达我们这个时代焦虑的鸡蛋：生命是珍贵的，微妙的。

高考By the time they started secondary school—at age 11—children were already far more aware of their image online and felt under huge pressure to ensure their posts were popular, the report found.

该报告发现，当孩子们11岁开始上中学时，他们已经对自己的网络形象有了更多的了解，并感受到了确保自己的帖子受欢迎的巨大压力。

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 wor

钱包的外观和手感——扣件和材料随着年龄的增长而磨损、松动、塑料、纸张、金银、手写电话号码和印刷电影票——与我们的工作截然相反

高考He finds that if babies aged 18 months see an unrelated adult with hands full trying to open a door, almost all will immediately try to help.

他发现，如果18个月大的婴儿看到一个没有亲缘关系的成年人正忙着开门，几乎所有的人都会立即帮忙。

高考We have entered into an age when dreams have the best chance of coming true.

我们已经进入了一个梦想最有可能实现的时代。

四级My research focus is on what happens to our immune system as we age.

我的研究重点是随着年龄的增长，我们的免疫系统会发生什么变化。

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。

高考In a society that tends to measure everything in terms of dollars and cents, we learn form a young age to consider the costs of our decisions in financial terms.

在一个倾向于用美元和美分衡量一切的社会里，我们从小就学会从财务角度考虑我们的决策成本。

六级But by 2014, the death rate from Alzheimer’s Disease for this age group have more than doubled, increasing from 3.8% to 8.5%, making the progressive brain disease the second leading cause of death for centenarians.

但到2014年，这一年龄组的阿尔茨海默病死亡率已经翻了一番多，从3.8%上升到8.5%，使进展性脑病成为百岁老人的第二大死因。

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。

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。

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。

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。

六级From a very early age, some children exhibit better self-control than others.

从很小的时候起，一些孩子就表现出比其他孩子更好的自控能力。

六级In recent years, the death rate among American centenarians—people who have lived to age 100 or older—has decreased, dropping 14% for women and 20% for men from 2008 to 2014.

近年来，美国百岁老人中活到100岁或以上的死亡率有所下降，从2008年到2014年，女性和男性的死亡率分别下降了14%和20%。

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On the other hand, scientists are increasingly learning that aging and biological age are two different things, and that the former is a key risk factor for conditions such as heart disease, cancer and many more.

另一方面，科学家们越来越认识到衰老和生物年龄是两个不同的东西，前者是心脏病、癌症等疾病的关键风险因素。

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。

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。

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。

高考However, the research—involving eight groups of 32 children aged 8 to 12 — suggested that as they headed toward their teens, they became increasingly anxious online.

然而，这项涉及8组32名8至12岁儿童的研究表明，随着他们走向青少年，他们在网上变得越来越焦虑。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

高考Some 60, 000 novels were published during the victorian age, from 1837 to 1901; today a casual reader might be able to name a half-dozen of them.

从1837年到1901年，维多利亚时代出版了约6万部小说；今天，一个随便的读者也许能说出其中的六个。

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。

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。

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。

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The report into youngsters aged from 8 to 12 was carried out by children's commissioner Anne Longfield.

儿童专员安妮·朗菲尔德（Anne Longfield）对8至12岁的青少年进行了调查。

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。

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。

高考I had an early start at the age of nine with a role in a 1990s TV series, but it wasn't until I finished film studies that I pursued my career as an actress.

我在九岁的时候很早就开始在一部90年代的电视连续剧中扮演一个角色，但直到我完成了电影研究，我才开始了我的演员生涯。

四级While 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.

虽然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When it comes to driverless cars, differences in attitude are more pronounced based on factors not related to age.

对于无人驾驶汽车，态度上的差异与年龄无关。

高考The advertisement is intended for students of all ages.

该广告面向所有年龄段的学生。

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Seventy percent of girls aged 10 to 18 report that they define perfect body image based on what they see in magazines.

70%的10-18岁女孩表示，她们根据在杂志上看到的东西来定义完美的身体形象。

高考Most of our volunteers are aged 17-24.

我们的大多数志愿者年龄在17-24岁之间。

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Freedom can be more popular in the digital age.

在数字时代，自由可能更受欢迎。

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。

考研All citizens who meet minimal qualifications of age and literacy are equally competent to serve on juries.

所有符合最低年龄和识字资格的公民都同样有资格担任陪审团成员。

四级Today, there is a serious question about this issue: Should there be a minimum age limit for executing criminals? 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?.

今天，关于这个问题有一个严肃的问题：是否应该对处决罪犯设定最低年龄限制？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？。

四级As millennial women come of age they share many of the same views and values about work as their male counterparts.

随着千禧一代女性步入成年，她们对工作的看法和价值观与男性同行有许多相同之处。

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 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。

四级In a three-stage life, people leave university at the same time and the same age, they tend to start their careers and family at the same age, they proceed through middle management all roughly the same time, and then move into retirement within a few yea

在三个阶段的生活中，人们在同一时间和同一年龄离开大学，他们倾向于在同一年龄开始自己的事业和家庭，他们几乎在同一时间进行中层管理，然后在几年内退休

高考By 2000 the average age was 65.

到2000年，平均年龄为65岁。

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。

四级I've found that my handiwork with yarn has helped my arthritic fingers remain more dexterous as I age.

我发现，随着年龄的增长，我用纱线做的手工让我患关节炎的手指保持更灵活。

高考While the sun's rays can age and harm our skin, they also give is beneficial Vitamin D.

虽然阳光会老化和伤害我们的皮肤，但它们也能提供有益的维生素D。

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。

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I had a learning disability from an early age.

我从小就有学习障碍。

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。

高考According to a new survey (调查) by the national sleep foundation, 51% of kids aged 10 to 18 go to bed at 10 pm or later on school nights, even though they have to get up early.

根据一项新的调查(调查) 根据国家睡眠基金会，51%到10岁到18岁的孩子在上学的晚上晚上10点或晚睡觉，尽管他们必须早起。

四级In 1962, 50% of Americans were married by age 21.

1962年，50%的美国人在21岁之前结婚。

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。

四级Dips in memory, meanwhile, generally became apparent around age 37.

与此同时，记忆力的衰退在37岁左右变得明显。

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。

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

中年时，他写道：“播种已经落后；现在是收获的时候了。”

高考Children aged 8 to 10 were "starting to feel happy" when others liked their posts.

当其他人喜欢他们的帖子时，8到10岁的孩子“开始感到快乐”。

考研At RoMan Manufacturing, a maker of electrical transformers and welding equipment that his father cofounded in 1980, Robert Roth keep a close eye on the age of his nearly 200 workers.

在罗曼制造公司（RoMan Manufacturing），罗伯特·罗斯（Robert Roth）密切关注着近200名工人的年龄。罗曼制造公司是他父亲在1980年共同创立的变压器和焊接设备制造商。

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。

六级The average age of farmers hovers around 58 years old, but he is just 26.

农民的平均年龄在58岁左右，但他只有26岁。

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 achain owned it; how attractive the neighborhood was—had no significant relationship

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；阿钦是否拥有它；邻里之间的吸引力没有显著关系

四级It helps slow down our aging process.

它有助于减缓我们的衰老过程。

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They function quite well even in old age.

即使在老年，它们的功能也相当好。

考研In contrast to France’s actions, Denmark’s fashion industry agreed last month on rules and sanctions regarding the age, health, and other characteristics of models.

与法国的行动相反，丹麦时装业上个月就有关模特年龄、健康和其他特征的规定和制裁达成一致。

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。

六级"middle school is an important age because students have enough math capability to solve advanced problems, but they haven't really decided what they want to do with their lives," said Loh.

“中学是一个重要的年龄，因为学生们有足够的数学能力来解决高级问题，但他们还没有真正决定他们想要做什么，”陆说。

高考At age 68, he retired from the post office, but he never stopped serving the community.

68岁时，他从邮局退休，但他从未停止为社区服务。

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。

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

18岁时，他搬到了美国。

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。

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"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。”。