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.

Loh说，中学是一个重要的年龄，因为学生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自己的人生目标。

考研Neither of these patterns is borne out by the analysis, suggesting that the structures of the languages are lire age-specific and not governed by universals.

这两种模式都没有通过分析得到证实，这表明语言的结构是特定于年龄的，不受普遍性的支配。

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。

四级Not everyone wants a driverless car now—and no one can get one yet—but among those who are open to them, every age group is similarly engaged.

现在并不是每个人都想要一辆无人驾驶汽车，也没有人能得到一辆，但在那些对他们开放的人中，每个年龄组都有类似的参与。

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。

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”

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。

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。

高考The passage starts with the story of cervantes to show that age is not a barrier to achieving one's goal.

这篇文章从塞万提斯的故事开始，说明年龄不是实现目标的障碍。

考研It is difficult to the point of impossibility for the average reader under the age of forty to imagine a time when high-quality arts criticism could be found in most big-city newspapers.

对于四十岁以下的普通读者来说，很难想象在大多数大城市的报纸上都能找到高质量的艺术评论。

四级They function quite well even in old age.

即使在老年，它们的功能也相当好。

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。

高考Interviews were repeated at ages 25, 31 and 47.

访谈在25岁、31岁和47岁时重复进行。

四级It helps slow down our aging process.

它有助于减缓我们的衰老过程。

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。

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。

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。

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On the other hand, indicators of a person's accumulated knowledge—like performance on tests of vocabulary and general knowledge—kept improving with age, according to findings published in the journal Neurobiology of Aging.

另一方面，根据发表在《衰老的神经生物学》杂志上的研究结果，一个人积累知识的指标，如词汇测试成绩和一般知识，随着年龄的增长而不断提高。

六级At around age 60, "muscles really start to break down," says Kathryn Starr, an aging researcher, "and because of that, the protein needs of an older adult actually increase.

在60岁左右，“肌肉真的开始崩溃，”老龄化研究人员凯瑟琳·斯塔尔说，“正因为如此，老年人对蛋白质的需求实际上增加了。

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。

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。

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。

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Perhaps most exciting is research that suggests that crafts like knitting and crocheting may help to keep off a decline in brain function with age.

也许最令人兴奋的是一项研究表明，编织和钩针等手艺可能有助于防止大脑功能随着年龄的增长而下降。

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。

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？。

高考We work with volunteers of all ages and backgrounds.

我们与各种年龄和背景的志愿者合作。

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。

四级It gradually expands with age.

它随着年龄的增长而逐渐扩大。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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The digital age cannot destroy it.

数字时代无法摧毁它。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

高考But, Kate, I still think old age should be about peace and relaxation.

但是，凯特，我仍然认为老年应该是和平和放松的。

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

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。

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。

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

18岁时，他搬到了美国。

高考Complete mastery demands continued learning until the age of 10 or 12.

完全掌握需要持续学习，直到10岁或12岁。

高考Working at any age is important.

在任何年龄工作都很重要。

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

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。

高考With farmers over the age of 65 outnumbering farmers younger than 35 by six to one, and with two-thirds of the nation's farmland in need of a new farmer, we must clear the path for talented people willing to grow the nation's food.

65岁以上的农民比35岁以下的农民多6:1，全国三分之二的农田需要新农民，我们必须为愿意种植国家粮食的人才扫清道路。

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。

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。

考研Children of every age benefit from patient parenting.

每个年龄段的孩子都受益于耐心的养育。

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。

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。

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。

六级99 Occupational stress increases the risk of heart attack and diabetes, accelerates the aging process, decreases longevity, and contributes to depression and anxiety, among numerous other negative health outcomes.

99职业压力会增加心脏病发作和糖尿病的风险，加速衰老过程，缩短寿命，导致抑郁和焦虑，以及其他许多负面健康后果。

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。

高考As a result it's likely to see a rise in the size of its working-age population and to witness strong economic growth over the longer term.

因此，它很可能会看到工作年龄人口数量的增加，并在长期内见证强劲的经济增长。

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。

高考The challenge invites, even dares school students between the ages of 5 and 14 to create artwork or a piece of writing that shows their curiosity how it inspires them to explore their world.

这项挑战邀请，甚至敢于让5岁至14岁的学生创作艺术品或作品，以显示他们的好奇心，激发他们探索自己的世界。

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。”。

六级Just having a strong teacher for one elementary year left pupils a bit less likely to become mothers as teenagers, a bit more likely to go to college and earning more money at age 28.

仅仅在小学一年里有一位优秀的老师，学生们就不太可能在青少年时期成为母亲，更可能在28岁时上大学，挣更多的钱。

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？

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。”

四级The study, which followed more than 2,000 healthy adults between the ages of 18 and 60, found that certain mental functions—including measures of abstract reasoning, mental speed and puzzle-solving—started to dull as early as age 27.

这项研究对2000多名年龄在18岁至60岁之间的健康成年人进行了跟踪调查。研究发现，某些心理功能，包括抽象推理、思维速度和解谜等，早在27岁时就开始变得迟钝。

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The first is that antitrust authorities need to move form the industrial age into the 21st century.

首先，反垄断机构需要从工业时代进入21世纪。

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。

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。

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。