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Here's something you might have figured out at your high school reunion or by Facebook-stalking your old classmates:
在高中同學聚會或者Facebook上隱身瀏覽時，你可能已經意識到：
being one of the cool kids does not necessarily mean being cool for life.
要做一個酷小孩并不是需要一生都扮酷。
And now, a study in the journal Child Development confirms that suspicion.
現在在《兒童發育》雜志上發表的一項最新研究已經證實了這種猜測。
Researchers followed ethnically and racially diverse suburban and urban kids from early adolescence to early adulthood.
研究人員們從青少年初期到青年初期依照民族，城市及郊區的不同劃分對孩子們進行了調查。
The kids who were deemed cool at a young age were high-status individuals with romantic relationships who broke rules and laws.
這些孩子們都被認為在年齡較小的時候比較酷，我行我素并且不喜歡循規蹈矩。
But they were no longer viewed that way by peers by the time they were in their early 20's.
但從20多歲開始他們便不會被同輩人這么看了。
The pseudomature behavior that seemed so admirable at a young age lost cache as the other kids gained actual maturity.
這種假成熟行為在少年時期會被當作一件十分值得欽佩的個性但隨著其他孩子長大便不覺其中神秘。
Meanwhile, as the young James Deans and Miley Cyruses aged they had to engage in ever-riskier behavior to keep thinking of themselves as cool.
同時，當年輕的詹姆斯鄧恩斯和米莉庫魯塞斯逐漸長大，他們也不得不開始投身于曾經被認為比較冒險的事業從而在精神上繼續保持自己很酷的這種認知。
By their early twenties, they were more likely to have drug and alcohol problems, relationship issues and criminal involvement.
而到了20多歲的年紀，他們很可能面臨咳藥以及酗酒，發生情感糾葛并且伴有犯罪記錄。
Turns out being a cool kid has a really short shelf life.
結果表明孩子們扮酷只會維持很短的時間。
