One idea is that,as people age, they grow more thankful for what they have, and have better control of their emotions.

VOA: special.2010.08.03

.. Under the next president spending... I don't know anybody who doesn't expect spending to increase because as the baby boomer's age, they'll claim more and more from government entitlement programs.

那么下届总统的财政支出。,想必每个人都希望财政支出继续增加,这一代人刚好出生于婴儿潮时期，他们对政府授权机制向来欲求不满。

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And one of the reasons that's most responsible for that is that humans aren't dying at as young an age from infectious diseases as they did three or four hundred years ago.

最重要的一个原因就是,人们不会在年轻的时候死于传染性疾病,而这在三四百年前确实会发生

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They found that women who gave birth after age 40 were nearly twice as likely to have a child with autism as a woman under 25.

VOA: standard.2010.02.10

Then on the other hand, at the other extreme, you have scholars who see the patriarchal stories as entirely fabricated retrojections of a much later age. And they vary significantly as to when they think these stories were written: anywhere from the period of the monarchy all the way down to the fourth century, some of them.

另一方面又是另一个极端，有学者认为族长故事完全是后世编造的,这样一来，对这些故事是什么时候写的,也有巨大的分歧：,其中一些人认为是在从君主制时期,到公元4世纪之间的某段时候。

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