One potential explanation offered by the researchers is that advantages that are measurable in the very young and very old tend to fade when testing young adults at the peak of their cognitive powers.

研究人员提供的一个可能的解释是，在非常年轻和非常年长的人身上可以测量到的优势，在测试处于认知能力高峰期的年轻成年人时往往会消失。

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When the young men were gone, the old Welshman said, "They won't tell--and I won't."

年轻人走后，威尔斯曼老人说：“他们不会说的——我也不会。”

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It was a lovely day at the park and Stella Bianchi was enjoying the sunshine with her two children when a young boy, aged about four, approached her two-year-old son and pushed him to the ground.

今天天气很好，斯特拉·比安奇带着两个孩子在公园里享受阳光，这时一个大约四岁的小男孩走近她两岁的儿子，把他推倒在地。

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Today it is a museum. Inside are precious artifacts from the family's daily life, including scraps of hand-written poetry and the manuscript of a polonaise written by young Frederic when he was eight-years-old.

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Milton had written in Areopagitica that he had actually met Galileo on his journey, when Milton was a young man and Galileo was a very old man, through the continent.

弥尔顿在中已经写到,他实际上在旅途中曾经遇到过伽利略，那还是当他是一个年轻人，而伽利略已然老去的，一次环陆旅行中。

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And although you enjoy it, sometimes you also enjoy reminiscing about the old days when you were young.

你非常享受这种生活，但有时，你也会回忆起你们年轻时的岁月。

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This proposition comes directly from economic theory, which says that people respond to the risk of dying not by shortening their planning horizon and blithely assuming they will die right on time, but by choosing to consume somewhat more when young and somewhat less when old, if they do end up living longer than expected.

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And I go even further and say, conventionally, you want much more in stocks when you're young and much more in bonds when you're old.

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It's not that he was precocious, he was simply old when he was young in terms of his thinking and aesthetic.

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