For many British people, that can apply to institutions and objects that represent their country's past age old castles, splendid homes and red phone boxes.
对于许多英国人来说,这可以适用于代表他们国家过去年代的机构和物品,古老的城堡,辉煌的住宅和红色的电话亭。
By their tremendous heroism, men such as Shakleton, Scott, and Amundsen caused a new continent to emerge from the shadows, and yet that heroic age, little more than a century old, is already passing.
沙克尔顿、斯科特和阿蒙森等人以他们巨大的英雄主义,使一个新大陆从阴影中浮现,但那个英雄时代,一个多世纪前,已经一去不复返了。
They had enough money to live in comfort in their old age.
他们有足够的钱舒舒服服地安度晚年。
They worry about how they will support themselves in their old age.
他们担心自己到了晚年该如何来维持生计。
They had laid money aside for their old age.
他们存钱防老。
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.
心智功能衰退通常被视为老年问题,但一项新的研究表明,大脑功能的某些方面实际上在青年时代就开始衰退了。
In poor societies, people have children to improve their economic well-being by increasing the number of family workers and providing support for parents in their old age.
在贫穷的社会里,人们要孩子是为了通过增加家庭工作人员的数量和在他们年老的时候为父母提供支持,改善他们的经济状况。
I want to make sure that older adults are still able to enjoy their old age, and that they are not spending time in hospital with infection.
我想确保老年人们仍然能够安享晚年,不会因为感染而住院。
I want to make sure that older adults are still able to enjoy their old age, and that they are not spending time in hospital with infections.
我想确保老年人们仍然能够安享晚年,不会因为感染而住院。
It means loving, respecting, obeying (服从), and taking care of one's parents in their old age.
这意味着爱护、尊重、服从和照顾他们年老的父母。
One old idiom is "luoyeguigen", which means returning to one's homeland at the old age, like fallen leaves return to the roots of their trees.
有个古老的成语叫“落叶归根”,意思是年老时回到自己的家乡,就像落叶返回树根一样。
They are adept at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory and also at wasting their time and talent through age-old art of over-analysing everything and everyone; analysis paralysis.
他们擅长在胜利关口抓取一丝失败,把自己的时间和才干都浪费在对一切人和事的过度考虑上;直至分析瘫痪。
Such people are, like Hokusai, wise in their old age.
跟葛饰北斋无异,他们这些人年老之时越发智慧通晓。
Scientists have got to the root of grey hair – paving the way for locks that retain the lustre of their youth well into old age.
科学家已经找到头发变白的根源----这一发现将为人们一直到老都可保持青春的发色而铺平道路。
With women my age, their parents are getting old; their children are starting puberty, and since we mostly have only one child, there is so much pressure to provide a good education.
女人到她这样的年纪,父母都变老了,自己的孩子进入了青春期,而且因为现在大多数家庭只有一个孩子,所以给孩子提供一个好的教育的压力很大。
LONDON: Believe it or not, the average 50-year-old is having more fun than those half their age.
伦敦:信不信由你,平均年龄50岁的人们比只有他们一半年龄的年轻人拥有更多的乐趣。
This view dovetails neatly with a five-year-old plan to drag their management of capital and risk into the modern age.
上述观点与一项为期五年的计划完全吻合,该计划使欧洲央行对资金与风险的管理更具现代感。
Even as images on cards, or as ornaments hanging in a window, angels perform their age-old function as messengers and mediators between the seen and unseen, or material and spiritual, worlds.
即使是作为贺卡上的图像,或者挂在窗上的装饰,天使都履行着他们作为可见世界与不可见世界之间以及物质世界与精神世界之间的信使和媒介者这个古老的职责。
A question about whether they expect to live with their children in old age provokes confident head-shaking among a group of Mexican mothers who are learning English in a Fresno school.
在弗雷斯诺的一个学校,当面对是否愿意老年使与孩子生活在一起时,一群学习英语的墨西哥母亲毫不犹豫的摇头。
"We always respect elders for both their age and experience, " said Hirotake Kobayashi, a 22-year-old student at Kyushu University in Japan.
来自日本九州大学,22岁的小林裕武说:“作为我们的长辈并且拥有丰富的阅历,我们理应尊敬他们。”
"We always respect elders for both their age and experience," said Hirotake Kobayashi, a 22-year-old student at Kyushu University in Japan.
来自日本九州大学,22岁的小林裕武说:“作为我们的长辈并且拥有丰富的阅历,我们理应尊敬他们。”
One of the biggest bombshells of our entire project: cheerful and optimistic children were less likely to live to an old age than their more staid and sober counterparts!
我们整个项目的最大的重磅炸弹之一:欢乐和乐观的孩子比更沉稳持重的孩子活到较大年龄的几率比较低!
Even as modern society arrives in this ancient village through satellite dishes and mobile phones, the Pundirs say they want their age-old tradition to continue with their children.
即便现代社会生活通过卫星天线和移动电话慢慢渗入到这个古老的乡村,辛旁迪一家说,他们希望这个古老的传统能在他们孩子的身上得以延续。
In a recent informal survey in Chile, 47% of rural respondents said they expected to live with a son or a daughter in their old age, while only 19% of urban respondents held the same expectation.
最近在智利进行的一个非正式调查表明,有47%的农村被调查者指望晚年与一个子女生活在一起,而只有19%的城市被调查者有这种愿望。
The survey also reveals the common age for parents to tell their children the truth about reproduction is 10 years old.
调查还发现父母们通常会在孩子10岁的时候告诉他们真实的生殖过程。
Many ancients devote their whole life to research work. For them, the frailty of old age gives way to the strong interest they've discovered in their occupations.
学无止境,一生的时间都嫌太短,所以古人皓首穷经,头白了还是在继续研究,不过在这样的研究中确是有浓厚的趣味。
Many women are unapologetic about their priorities, citing the age-old tradition in which men provided a home for their brides, even if that home came with a mother-in-law.
许多女士对提出的这种优先条件并无歉意,她们引述古老的传统,认为男性就应该为新娘提供一个家,哪怕这个家是从婆婆那里得来的。
But the boomers have not provided enough for their old age. And the credit crunch has made the sums look even worse.
但是,生育高峰期出生的婴儿还没有为老年生活积攒足够的积蓄,信用危机导致他们的储蓄贬值,前景更不容乐观。
Bad smells are not just a matter of poor hygiene. Illness and old age both bring characteristic odours of their own, and neither state makes people more attractive.
难闻的味道不光是不卫生的问题,疾病和衰老都具有各自的特色气味;不过上面的这两种情况都不能增加人的吸引力,但是香水却可以粉饰上述问题。
Babies learn to identify their parents' faces within hours of being born, and even in old age people can remember what their childhood friends looked like.
婴儿在出生几小时后就可以辨认父母的相貌,即使是老年人也记得儿时伙伴的样子。
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