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考点词a. 年老的;...岁的;长时间的,老的;过去的
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a. 年老的27 次

  • In Germany, one scheme has paired an old people’s home with a nursery.

    在德国,有一个项目把一家养老院和一家托儿所结成了对子。

  • Chaudhary said that Britain should explore the possibility that older siblings helping their parents “might also enhance their own social development.”

    乔杜里说,英国应该探讨这样一种可能性:年长的兄弟姐妹帮助父母照顾弟妹,“或许也能促进他们自身的社会性发展。”

  • teaching parenting skills to older children.

    向年龄较大的孩子传授育儿技能。

  • Part of the problem in keeping older drivers safe is that the difficulties are addressed piecemeal by different professions with different focuses, including gerontologists, highway administration officials, automotive engineers and others, said gerontologist Elizabeth Dugan.

    老年学家伊丽莎白·杜根说,保障老年司机安全的部分问题在于,这些困难是由侧重点各不相同的不同行业零敲碎打地处理的,包括老年学家、公路管理官员、汽车工程师等。

  • “There’s not a National Institute of Older Driver Studies,” she said.

    “没有一个国家老年司机研究所,”她说。

  • Many older drivers don’t see eye doctors or can’t afford to.

    许多老年司机不去看眼科医生,或者看不起。

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  • According to Dugan, efforts to keep older drivers safe ____

    根据杜根的说法,保障老年司机安全的努力____

  • Some older drivers have trouble driving because they tend to ____

    一些老年司机驾驶有困难,是因为他们往往____

  • And surfing the web exercised the brain more than reading did among computer-savvy older adults in a 2008 study involving 24 participants at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at the University of California, Los Angeles.

    而且,在加州大学洛杉矶分校塞默尔神经科学与人类行为研究所2008年开展的一项有24名参与者的研究中,对于精通电脑的老年人来说,上网比阅读更能锻炼大脑。

  • is most studied in older adults.

    在老年人中研究得最多。

  • Other studies have shown that rebellious behavior increases as you become a teenager and then fades away as you grow older.

    其他研究表明,叛逆行为在人进入青少年时期时会增多,随后随着年龄增长逐渐消退。

  • Older generations often talk about their degree in the present and personal tense: ‘I am a geographer’ or ‘I am a classicist’.

    老一辈人常常用现在时和第一人称谈论自己的学位:“我是地理学家”或“我是古典学家”。

  • The older you get, the [quicker] it seems to go.

    年纪越大,时间似乎过得越快。

  • Older Americans are also the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. workforce, and boomers are expected to live longer than previous generations.

    老年人也是美国劳动力中增长最快的群体,而且婴儿潮一代预计会比前几代人更长寿。

  • the old workforce is as active as the younger one.

    老年劳动力和年轻劳动力一样活跃

  • The researchers looked at data that [included] measurements of lean muscle and abdominal fat from more than 4,000 middle-to-older-aged men and women and [compared] that data to reported changes in fluid intelligence over a six-year period.

    研究人员查看了{{7}}4000多名中老年男女的瘦肌肉和腹部脂肪测量值的数据,并将这些数据{{8}}六年间所报告的流体智力变化。

  • And picking crops is hard on older bodies.

    而采摘农作物对年纪较大的人来说很吃力。

  • While more families buck an older-generation proclivity to leave kids in the dark about real estate decisions, realty agents and psychologists have mixed views about the financial, personal and long-term effects kids' opinions may have.

    虽然越来越多的家庭摒弃了老一辈在房产决策上不让孩子知情的倾向,但对于孩子的意见可能产生的经济、个人及长期影响,房产中介和心理学家看法不一。

  • The other issue is that many children — especially older ones — may base their real estate knowledge on HGTV shows, said Aaron Norris of The Norris Group in Riverside, Calif.

    加州里弗赛德诺里斯集团的亚伦·诺里斯说,另一个问题是,许多孩子——尤其是年龄较大的孩子——可能是从HGTV(家居园艺频道)的节目中获得房地产知识的。

  • It’s not as hard for them to transform their thought processes as it is for older students.

    对他们来说,转变思维过程并不像对年龄较大的学生那样困难。

  • But while young and old mostly agree on what constitutes the finish line of a fulfilling life, they offer strikingly different paths for reaching it.

    但是,尽管年轻人和老年人在什么构成充实人生的终点线这一点上大体一致,他们提出的抵达路径却截然不同。

  • Young people who are still getting started in life were more likely than older adults to prioritize personal fulfillment in their work, to believe they will advance their careers most by regularly changing jobs, to favor communities with more public services and a faster pace of life, to agree that couples should be financially secure before getting married or having children, and to maintain that children are best served by two parents working outside the home, the survey found.

    调查发现,与年长者相比,刚刚踏上人生道路的年轻人更有可能在工作中优先考虑个人成就感,更有可能相信定期换工作最能推进自己的事业,更喜欢公共服务更多、生活节奏更快的社区,更认同夫妻在结婚或生育之前应当经济上有保障,并坚持认为父母双方都在外工作对孩子最为有利。

  • Young and old converge on one key point: Overwhelming majorities of both groups said they believe it is harder for young people today to get started in life than it was for earlier generations.

    年轻人和老年人在一个关键点上看法一致:两个群体中的绝大多数人都表示,他们认为如今的年轻人比前几代人更难开启人生。

  • Both young and old agree that ____

    年轻人和老年人都同意____

  • the old made more life achievements.

    老年人取得了更多的人生成就。

  • Trade publications counselled department stores that, in order to increase sales, they should create a “third stepping stone” between infant wear and older kids’ clothes.

    行业刊物建议百货商店,为了提高销量,应在婴儿服装和大童服装之间创造一个“第三块垫脚石”。

  • focus on infant wear and older kids’ clothes.

    专注于婴儿服装和大童服装。

a. 长时间的,老的21 次

  • Ask people about public libraries and a certain image springs to mind: dusty, old-fashioned, the sort of place you enjoyed as a child but, rather like a British seaside town, would you go there now?

    问起公共图书馆,人们脑海中会浮现出某种印象:布满灰尘、过时老旧,是你小时候喜欢去的那种地方——但就像英国的海滨小镇一样,你现在还会去那里吗?

  • Established in an old paper mill, it is powered by a nearby river and its remote heat warms the people who live in the surrounding town of Kajaani.

    它建在一座旧造纸厂里,由附近的一条河流供电,其余热输送到周边的卡亚尼镇,为当地居民供暖。

  • Ever since taking on Netflix Inc. at its own game, old Hollywood has struggled to turn a profit in streaming, with the likes of Disney+, Peacock and Paramount+ losing billions of dollars each year, sparking concerns that the services will never be as profitable as cable once was.

    自从在流媒体领域与奈飞公司正面交锋以来,老牌好莱坞一直难以在流媒体业务上盈利,Disney+、Peacock和Paramount+等平台每年亏损数十亿美元,引发了人们的担忧:这些服务永远不会像有线电视曾经那样赚钱。

  • He captured the first-ever shots of iconic landmarks such as the Tetons, Old Faithful and the Colorado Rockies.

    他首次拍下了提顿山脉、老忠实泉和科罗拉多落基山脉等标志性地标。

  • Throughout the trip, Jackson juggled multiple cameras and plate sizes using the “collodion process” that required him to coat the plates with a chemical mixture, then expose them and develop the resulting images with a portable darkroom. The crude technique required educated guesses on exposure times, and involved heavy, awkward equipment — several men had to assist in its transportation. Despite these challenges, Jackson captured dozens of striking photos, ranging from majestic images like his now-famous snapshot of Old Faithful, to casual portraits of expedition members at the camp. While veterans of previous expeditions wrote at length about stunning trail sights, these vivid photographs were another thing entirely.

    在整个旅途中,杰克逊使用“火棉胶工艺”同时摆弄多台相机和多种尺寸的底片,这种工艺要求他先给底片涂上一层化学混合物,然后曝光,再用便携式暗室冲洗出影像。这种简陋的技术需要凭经验推测曝光时间,而且所用设备笨重难使——需要好几个人协助搬运。尽管困难重重,杰克逊还是拍下了几十张引人注目的照片,从他那张如今已闻名于世的老忠实泉快照这样的壮丽画面,到营地里考察队员的随意肖像,不一而足。以往考察的老手们曾长篇累牍地描写沿途的壮丽景色,而这些生动的照片则完全是另一回事。

  • Old objects continue to deteriorate.

    旧物品在持续老化。

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  • It took place on many different planes: between Napoleon’s French army and the angry inhabitants; between the British, ever keen to exacerbate the emperor’s difficulties, and the marshals sent from Paris to try to keep them in check; between new forces of science and meritocracy and old ones of conservatism and birth.

    这场斗争在许多不同层面上展开:拿破仑的法国军队与愤怒的当地居民之间;一心想加剧皇帝困境的英国人与从巴黎派来试图遏制他们的元帅们之间;科学与任人唯贤的新势力和保守主义与门第出身的旧势力之间。

  • The Supreme Court’s opinion Thursday overruled a pair of decades-old decisions that states said cost them billions of dollars in lost revenue annually.

    最高法院周四的意见推翻了两项已有数十年历史的判决,各州称这两项判决每年让它们损失数十亿美元的收入。

  • These new forms were at first mainly written by scholars and performed by amateurs, but in England, as everywhere else in western Europe, the growth of a class of professional actors was threatening to make the drama popular, whether it should be new or old, classical or medieval, literary or farcical.

    这些新形式起初主要由学者创作、由业余演员表演,但在英国,正如在西欧其他各地一样,职业演员阶层的壮大正使戏剧趋于大众化,无论它是新是旧,是古典的还是中世纪的,是文学性的还是闹剧性的。

  • To limit the number of telescopes on Mauna Kea, old ones will be removed at the end of their lifetimes and their sites returned to a natural state.

    为了限制莫纳克亚山上望远镜的数量,旧望远镜将在寿命结束时被拆除,其场址也将恢复到自然状态。

  • California has asked the justices to refrain from a sweeping ruling, particularly one that upsets the old assumption that authorities may search through the possessions of suspects at the time of their arrest.

    加利福尼亚州已请求大法官们不要做出全面性的裁决,尤其是推翻“当局可在逮捕嫌疑人时搜查其随身物品”这一旧有观念的裁决。

  • Some Old Truths to Help You Overcome Tough Times

    一些帮助你渡过难关的古老真理

  • I want to share these old truths I’ve learned along the way.

    我想分享一路走来学到的这些古老真理。

  • We suddenly can’t remember [where] we put the keys just a moment ago, or an old acquaintance’s name, or the name of an old band we used to love.

    我们会突然想不起刚才把钥匙放在了哪里,想不起一位老熟人的名字,或是一支我们曾经喜爱的老乐队的名字。

  • You cannot buy class, as the old saying goes, and these upstart entrepreneurs cannot buy their prizes the prestige of the Nobels.

    俗话说,品位是买不来的,这些暴发户企业家也无法为他们的奖项买来诺贝尔奖那样的声望。

  • As Nature has pointed out before, there are some legitimate concerns about how science prizes — both new and old — are distributed.

    正如《自然》杂志此前指出的,对于科学奖项——无论新旧——的颁发方式,确实存在一些合理的担忧。

  • What was once exciting and new becomes old-hat; regret creeps in.

    曾经令人兴奋的新鲜事物变得陈旧过时,悔意便悄然而至。

  • The concept of man versus machine is at least as old as the industrial revolution, but this phenomenon tends to be most acutely felt during economic downturns and fragile recoveries.

    人与机器对抗的概念至少与工业革命一样古老,但这一现象往往在经济衰退和脆弱的复苏期间感受最为强烈。

  • An old saying has it that half of all advertising budgets are wasted — the trouble is, no one knows which half.

    有句老话说,所有广告预算中有一半被浪费了——问题是,没人知道是哪一半。

  • If Gilbert and the Philharmonic are to succeed, they must first change the relationship between America's oldest orchestra and the new audience it hopes to attract.

    吉尔伯特和爱乐乐团要想成功,首先必须改变这支美国历史最悠久的乐团与它希望吸引的新听众之间的关系。

  • The apartments in the elegant towers Mies built on Chicago's Lake Shore Drive, for example, were smaller — two-bedroom units under 1,000 square feet — than those in their older neighbors along the city's Gold Coast.

    例如,密斯在芝加哥湖滨大道建造的那些优雅高楼中的公寓——不到1000平方英尺的两居室——比该市黄金海岸沿线那些较老的邻近建筑中的公寓要小。

a. ...岁的16 次

  • It found that infants had an average of 14 alloparents a day by the time they were 18 weeks old, and were passed between caregivers eight times an hour.

    研究发现,婴儿长到18周大时,平均每天有14位异亲照料者,且每小时要在照料者之间传递八次。

  • The context of any exhibit is more important to me than whether the object being displayed is 2000 years old or 2 months old.

    对我来说,任何展览的背景都比展出的物品是有2000年历史还是只有2个月历史更重要。

  • The context of any exhibit is more important to me than whether the object being displayed is 2000 years old or 2 months old.

    对我来说,任何展览的背景都比展出的物品是有2000年历史还是只有2个月历史更重要。

  • Mandatory in-person renewal was associated with a 31 percent reduction in fatal crashes involving drivers 85 or older, according to one study.

    一项研究显示,强制亲自到场更新驾照与85岁及以上司机涉及的致命车祸减少31%相关。

  • “If we’re going to have 100-year lives, we need cars that a 90-year-old can drive comfortably.”

    “如果我们要活到100岁,就需要90岁老人也能舒适驾驶的汽车。”

  • The researchers studied “prosocial” and rebellious traits in more than 200 children and young adults, ranging from 11 to 28 years old.

    研究人员研究了200多名年龄在11岁到28岁之间的儿童和青年的“亲社会”特质和叛逆特质。

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  • They reimagined the 300-year-old score by injecting the latest climate prediction data for each season — provided by Monash University’s Climate Change Communication Research Hub.

    他们在这部有300年历史的乐谱中注入了每个季节的最新气候预测数据——这些数据由莫纳什大学气候变化传播研究中心提供——从而对其进行了重新构思。

  • She uses outdated research and decades-old examples to undermine the noble mission of organizations committed to connecting children to a world beyond their own.

    她用过时的研究和几十年前的例子来贬低那些致力于让孩子们接触自身以外世界的组织的崇高使命。

  • The share of the population 65 and older was 16% in 2018, up 3.2% from the prior year, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

    根据美国人口普查局的数据,2018年65岁及以上人口所占比例为16%,比前一年上升了3.2%。

  • About 20% of people 65 and older were in the workforce in February, up from an all-time low of 10% in January 1985, according to money manager United Income.

    根据理财机构United Income的数据,今年2月,65岁及以上的人中约有20%在工作,而1985年1月这一比例为历史最低的10%。

  • When Shakespeare was twelve years old the first public playhouse was built in London.

    莎士比亚十二岁时,伦敦建起了第一座公共剧院。

  • Runners range from four years old to grandparents; their times range from Andrew Baddeley’s world record 13 minutes 48 seconds up to an hour.

    跑步者从四岁孩童到祖父母辈都有;他们的用时从安德鲁·巴德利创下的13分48秒的世界纪录到一个小时不等。

  • Schneider, a 27-year-old auto technician from the Chicago suburbs, says he struggled to find a job after graduating from college.

    施耐德是来自芝加哥郊区的一名27岁的汽车技师,他说自己大学毕业后费了好大劲才找到工作。

  • A couple of Christmases ago, my youngest stepdaughter, who was nine years old at the time, got a Superman T-shirt for Christmas.

    几年前的一个圣诞节,我最小的继女——她当时九岁——收到了一件超人T恤作为圣诞礼物。

  • This is now a question for Gloria Mackenzie, an 84-year-old widow who recently emerged from her small, tin-roofed house in Florida to collect the biggest undivided lottery jackpot in history.

    这正是格洛丽亚·麦肯齐如今面临的问题。这位84岁的寡妇最近从她在佛罗里达州那间铁皮屋顶的小房子里走出来,领取了史上最大的一笔独得彩票头奖。

  • Then it presents that connection, even among two-year-olds, between girls as not only innocent but as evidence of innocence.

    接着,它把这种联系——哪怕是在两岁孩子身上——呈现为女孩不仅天真无邪,而且是天真无邪的证明。

a. 过去的12 次

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  • More Americans are opting to work well into retirement, a growing trend that threatens to upend the old workforce model.

    越来越多的美国人选择在退休后继续工作很长时间,这一日益增长的趋势可能会颠覆旧的劳动力模式。

  • The USPS Starts to Miss Its Good Old Days

    美国邮政署开始怀念它的美好旧时光

  • The most successful monarchies strive to abandon or hide their old aristocratic ways.

    最成功的君主制国家都在努力摒弃或掩饰其旧有的贵族做派。

  • (48) But the force of geographic conditions peculiar to America, the interplay of the varied national groups upon one another, and the sheer difficulty of maintaining old-world ways in a raw, new continent caused significant changes.

    (48) 但是,美洲特有的地理条件的影响、各民族群体之间的相互作用,以及在一片未开发的新大陆上保持旧大陆生活方式的极大困难,引起了重大的变化。

  • We suddenly can’t remember [where] we put the keys just a moment ago, or an old acquaintance’s name, or the name of an old band we used to love.

    我们会突然想不起刚才把钥匙放在了哪里,想不起一位老熟人的名字,或是一支我们曾经喜爱的老乐队的名字。

  • Many recruiters say the old disgrace is fading for top performers.

    许多招聘人员说,对于业绩出众者来说,过去那种(辞职求职的)耻辱感正在消退。

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