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How did this happen? Well, we're no genetically hardier than our ancestors were 10,000 years ago.
這是怎么發(fā)生的？我們并不是在基因上比一萬年前的祖先強(qiáng)壯。
This increase in life expectancy is the remarkable product of culture
平均壽命的增加全要?dú)w功于文化，
the crucible that holds science and technology and wide-scale changes in behavior that improve health and well-being.
一個(gè)包含了科學(xué)和技術(shù)以及廣泛的（社會(huì)）行為改變的熔爐，導(dǎo)致人們的健康和福利的增進(jìn)。
Through cultural changes, our ancestors largely eliminated early death so that people can now live out their full lives.
通過文化的改變，我們的祖先大幅度地消除了早亡，所以現(xiàn)在的人可以走完完整的一生。
Now there are problems associated with aging -- diseases, poverty, loss of social status.
老齡化催生了很多問題，疾病、貧困、社會(huì)地位的喪失。
It's hardly time to rest on our laurels.
這可不是坐享榮譽(yù)的時(shí)候。
But the more we learn about aging, the clearer it becomes that a sweeping downward course is grossly inaccurate.
不過當(dāng)我們研究的越多，老齡化就變得越清晰，把它說成是一條單純的下坡路是非常不準(zhǔn)確的。
Aging brings some rather remarkable improvements -- increased knowledge, expertise and emotional aspects of life improve.
衰老也帶來一些非同凡響的進(jìn)步，知識(shí)的增加，專業(yè)的精深，人生的情緒層面也有所提升。
That's right, older people are happy.
這句話很對(duì)，老年人是快樂的。
They're happier than middle-aged people, and younger people, certainly.
他們比中年人更快樂，更理所當(dāng)然地比年輕人更快樂。
Study after study is coming to the same conclusion.
一個(gè)又一個(gè)的研究證實(shí)了相同的結(jié)論。
The CDC recently conducted a survey where they asked respondents simply to tell them
疾病防治中心（CDC）最近進(jìn)行了一次調(diào)查，他們簡單地要求受試者來報(bào)告，
whether they experienced significant psychological distress in the previous week.
在過去的一周里自己是否經(jīng)歷了重大的心理困擾。
And fewer older people answered affirmatively to that question than middle-aged people, and younger people as well.
老年人承認(rèn)有這類問題的比中年人少，也比年輕人少。
And a recent Gallup poll asked participants how much stress and worry and anger they had experienced the previous day.
一項(xiàng)近期的蓋洛普調(diào)查詢問參與者有多少壓力、焦慮和憤怒情緒他們?cè)谇耙惶祗w驗(yàn)過。
And stress, worry, anger all decrease with age.
壓力、焦慮、憤怒都隨著年齡增長而減少。
