The researchers say estimating and preventing early deaths in adults is just as important as improving child survival.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

Those two examples I just gave you, one had to directly inject a gene containing vector into the pronucleus of a fertilized egg and you don't have that opportunity in adults.

在我刚给出的两个例子里,一个必须得将带有目的基因的载体,直接注射到受精卵的原核中,这在成年人身上行不通

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And this is my colleague, Marianne LaFrance, who is actually not smiling in that picture but she studies smiling and smiling in adults, smiling in children, smiling across cultures, and the different social uses of smiling.

另一位是我的同事，法国人玛丽安，她在照片上没有笑,但她研究微笑，成人的微笑，孩子的微笑，文明的微笑，微笑的不同社会功用。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The worst signs of elephantiasis appear in adults.

VOA: special.2009.05.26

And in that emphasis on the dark side of schooling, should give pause to adults who were looking for an understanding of why something like Columbine comes about.

这一对学校黑暗面的控诉，应该给成年人们敲了一记警钟,尤其是那些在探讨,为什么会有科罗拉多可伦拜枪杀案这样的事件。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

"We know previously that in adults there is that kind of association, but we didn't know that in adolescents."

VOA: standard.2010.03.04

We'v e shown that learning optimism prevents depression and anxiety in children and adults, roughly halving their incidence over the next 2 years.

研究证实，乐观可帮助儿童和成人,预防抑郁和焦虑，使未来两年的发病率降低一半。

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There's been studies that show that in adults, that when they're taken away, it is a prevention."

VOA: standard.2010.03.04

This means the Israelites will have to wander for 40 years in the desert until all of those who left Egypt as adults pass away, leaving a new generation that hasn't really tasted slavery, to enter the land and form a new nation.

这意味着，犹太人必须在沙漠中流浪40年,直到所有一起出埃及的人过世，留下没有做过奴隶的，新一代人，进入应许之地，建立一个新的国家。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Extreme vitamin D deficiency causes deformities in children and weak bones in adults.

VOA: standard.2010.05.28

So, you want to give it to them because the biology of children is different than adults, and so you need to make sure it works in that population.

你希望将疫苗分发给孩子们,因为儿童与成人在生物学上不尽相同,要确保疫苗对儿童有效

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Although there is some evidence that artery damage caused by second-hand smoke in adults may be reversible, LaVan says it's unclear whether that's also true for adolescents.

VOA: standard.2010.03.04

Those doctors would still not be able to improve school performance of the kids with learning disabilities and they would still not be able to prevent cognitive impairment and loss of memory in older adults because at this point we don't really understand enough about learning To know which neurons and synapses within a circuit would need to be tinkered with.

他恐怕还是改变不了有学习障碍的孩子们的表现,阻挡不了老年人的认知功能损害和记忆力的衰退,因为我们对这一学科的确知之甚少,不知道知道回路中的到底是哪些神经元和神经突触需要修复。

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The findings came from a study of more than three hundred forty thousand adults living in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.08.03

Some linguists would interview --Linguists would interview adults in these communities and say, "Why don't you speak to your babies?"

语言学家们会访问,住在这些社会中的成人,然后问道,"你为什么不和你的宝宝说话"

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"In a single generation, we've fallen from first place to twelfth place in college graduation rates for young adults.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

So, we have stereotypes in our heads about men and women, about children, adolescents or adults, whites, blacks, Asians and so on.

所以我们有各种各样的刻板印象，对男人，对女人，对小孩，对青少年，对成年人，对白人，对黑人，对亚洲人等等。

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Young adults would use paint in special cans to spray their "tag" on walls and train cars around the city.

VOA: special.2009.04.08

And I think it shocked me when I was in that room was that there were all kinds of adults setting there around the table talking about young people, the relationship to technology the relationship to culture the relationship to schooling and to each other.

在现场有一件事令我感到震惊,我们一群成年人来参加听证会,围桌讨论各种关于年轻人的问题，讨论年轻人与技术的关系,与文化的关系,与教育的关系以及年轻人之间的相互关系。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

And she explains the theory of evolution through natural selection in a way that both children and adults will enjoy.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

And, in support of the second alternative, even adults find these tasks involving lying and deception more difficult.

即使成年人也会发现,包含谎言与欺骗的任务要更加困难,这支持了第二种观点

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The study also found that more than one-quarter of American adults have left the religion in which they were raised.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

There's a wonderful case in Nicaragua in sign language where they acquire sign language from adults who themselves are not versed in sign language.

研究者在尼加拉瓜曾做过,一个精彩的手语个案研究,儿童们从本身并不熟悉手语的成年人那里,习得手语

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

While the adults go out at night for food, the young bats hang out in the cave for four or five weeks.

VOA: special.2009.12.07

One is how parents or how adults in general respond to children.

一是，通常父母或大人,怎样应对孩子的。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

And here are two other things to keep in mind, one for children and the other for adults.

VOA: special.2009.12.23

Fine. But there are reasons to study development even if you are not interested in children because sometimes developmental studies and developmental data and developmental science can inform questions about adults.

没关系,但即使你对儿童不感兴趣,却依然有很多原因促使你去研究发展,因为发展的研究,数据以及科学,有时可以解释成人的问题

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

In fact,Mississippi has had the highest rate of obese adults in each of the past five years.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

In fact, there's some things even adults don't know.

实际上,有些知识连成人都不知道

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Final question, just to raise: I've talked in terms of the modular view but there might also be profound general differences between children and adults, not just specific to how you think about objects or how you think about people or how you think about this or how you think about that, but rather more general.

再说最后一个问题,我刚才是从模块理论的角度来讲述的,但在儿童与成人之间,或许还存在着深刻的一般性差异,不仅仅是具体到如何看待客体,如何看待他人,或是如何看待这个,如何看待那个,相反会更加一般化

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