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M: Is this a good thing, do you think?
男：你認(rèn)為這是件好事嗎？
W: I think that it's an excellent arrangement.
女：我認(rèn)為這是一個(gè)很好的安排。
W: We all like to keep part of our lives private, even from those we love dearly.
女：我們都喜歡有一部分生活自己獨(dú)享，即使是那些我們深愛(ài)的人也不能涉足。
W: I certainly don't think that it's a sign of the increased loneliness of old age.
女：我當(dāng)然不認(rèn)為這是老年階段愈加孤獨(dú)的標(biāo)志。
M: Are people's mental abilities affected by old age?
男：人們的心智能力會(huì)受年老的影響嗎？
W: Certain changes do take place as we grow older, but this happens throughout life.
女：隨著年齡的增長(zhǎng)，某些變化必然會(huì)發(fā)生，但這些變化一生都在發(fā)生。
W: These changes are very gradual and happen at different times with different people,
女：這些變化是漸進(jìn)的，不同的人發(fā)生這些變化的時(shí)間也不同，
W: but, in general, if you know a person well in his middle age and have seen how he deals with events and problems, you will easily recognize him in old age.
女：但是，總的來(lái)說(shuō)，如果你在中年時(shí)很了解一個(gè)人，并且知道他是如何處理事件和問(wèn)題的，你很容易分辨他是不是老了。
M: So that someone who enjoys new experiences, travel, education, and so on in his middle years will usually continue to do so into old age?
男：那么，一個(gè)人如果在中年時(shí)期，喜歡新經(jīng)歷、旅行、教育等，到了老年通常會(huì)繼續(xù)喜歡嗎？
W: Exactly. We have carried out some very interesting experiments in which a group of people aged 60-70 and a group aged 30-40 had to learn the same things.
女：沒(méi)錯(cuò)。我們進(jìn)行了一些非常有趣的實(shí)驗(yàn)，其中60-70歲的人群和30-40歲的人群必須學(xué)習(xí)同樣的東西。
W: The first thing we discovered was that the young group tends to be quicker at learning than the old group.
女：我們發(fā)現(xiàn)的第一件事是，年輕人在學(xué)習(xí)上往往比老年人更快。
W: However, although the old group took longer to learn, eventually, they performed as well as the young group.
女：然而，盡管老年組花了更長(zhǎng)的時(shí)間去學(xué)習(xí)，最終，他們還是表現(xiàn)得和青年組一樣。
W: And when we tested the two groups several weeks later, there was again no difference between the two groups.
女：幾周后我們對(duì)兩組進(jìn)行了測(cè)試，兩組之間還是沒(méi)有差別。
M: That's very interesting indeed. What else did your experiments show?
男：這確實(shí)很有趣。你的實(shí)驗(yàn)還發(fā)現(xiàn)了什么？
W: Well, one group of old people agreed to attend evening classes for a year to study English and mathematics.
女：一群老年人同意參加一年的夜校去學(xué)習(xí)英語(yǔ)和數(shù)學(xué)。
W: In fact, most of this group became so interested in their studies that they continued them for another year.
女：事實(shí)上，這個(gè)小組的大多數(shù)人對(duì)他們的研究非常感興趣，因此他們繼續(xù)研究了一年。
W: Anyway, we discovered that they did best in the English classes and that most of them steadily improved their ability to communicate in both the written and the spoken language.
女：無(wú)論如何，我們發(fā)現(xiàn)他們?cè)谟⒄Z(yǔ)課上表現(xiàn)最好，而且他們中的大多數(shù)人都在不斷提高書面和口頭交流能力。
M: What about the group who studied mathematics?
男：那組學(xué)數(shù)學(xué)的呢？
W: Well, that's a different story. There seems to be no doubt that people find maths more difficult as they grow older. Though, why this is so, I cannot say.
女：那是另一回事了。毫無(wú)疑問(wèn)，隨著年齡的增長(zhǎng)，人們學(xué)數(shù)學(xué)會(huì)更難。但是，我不清楚為什么會(huì)這樣。
M: Perhaps pocket calculators will solve this problem.
男：也許袖珍計(jì)算器能解決這個(gè)問(wèn)題。
W: I think you're right. In fact, I'm sure that you are.
女：我想你是對(duì)的。事實(shí)上，我確定你說(shuō)的很對(duì)。
M: Okay. Time for a commercial. Stay tuned; we'll be right back.
男：好。廣告時(shí)間到。不要走開(kāi)，馬上回來(lái)。
