As we move from the industrial age to the information age, societal demands on our mental capabilities are no less taxing.
随着我们从工业时代过渡到信息时代，社会对我们的思维能力的要求也越来越高。
By contrast, because sedimentation is much less continuous in continental regions, estimating the age of a continental bed from the known ages of beds above and below is more risky.
相比之下，由于沉积作用在大陆地区的连续性要小得多，因此根据已知的上下岩层的年龄来估计一个大陆岩层的年龄风险更大。
Just having a strong teacher for one elementary year left pupils a bit less likely to become mothers as teenagers, a bit more likely to go to college and earning more money at age 28.
仅仅是在小学的一年里有一位优秀的老师，就会让学生们在青少年时期成为母亲的可能性降低一些，而上大学和在28岁时赚更多钱的可能性增加一些。
The researchers noted that the effect of pollution on language ability is even more serious as people age, especially among men and the less educated.
研究人员指出，随着年龄的增长，污染对语言能力的影响更加严重，尤其是在男性和受教育程度较低的人群中。
That is doubly true of the cells in stored blood since red blood cells become less flexible with age, and thus less able to squish into capillaries.
对于储藏的血液细胞而言更是如此，因为红细胞随着年龄的增长而日益失去弹性，因此就越来越难以挤到毛细血管里。
You probably remember that human infants are less developed physically than other mammals of the same age.
你可能还记得，同龄人类婴儿的身体发育不如其他哺乳动物。
Though I desperately wanted to lay blame elsewhere, I finally had to admit that my bad habits had less to do with new-age technology and more to do with old-fashioned procrastination.
尽管我极力想把责任推卸到其他地方，但最终不得不承认，我的坏习惯与新时代的技术没什么关系，而与传统的拖延症关系更大。
A study recently published by Science found that as young as age six, girls are less likely than boys to say that members of their gender are "really, really smart".
《科学》最近发表的一项研究发现，在6岁时，女孩说自己性别的成员“非常、非常聪明”的可能性比男孩小。
Older people should eateven less, to counteract the natural rise in blood pressure that comeswith age.
为了抵消随着年龄增长而自然升高的血压，老年人应该吃更少的钠。
But women generally have faster blood flow to their brains, causing them to lose less brain tissue as they age.
但是，女性通常血液留往大脑的速度要更快，这使她们年老的时候更少损失脑组织。
As we age, we produce less saliva, which washes away bacteria, so teeth and gums are more vulnerable to decay.
随着我们年老，我们分泌更少能冲洗掉细菌的唾液，因此牙齿和牙龈更容易退化。
Sunscreen can protect your skin from these damaging rays, so that even if you do spend time outdoors, your face is less likely to give away your age.
防晒霜能保护你的皮肤不受这些破坏射线的影响，因此即使你在户外待很久，你的脸也不太可能泄露你的年龄。
Workers in that age group are less likely to be laid off, but those who do lose their jobs tend to be out of work far longer than younger workers.
年龄达到五十五岁的人一般不会被雇主裁掉，但这些人一旦失去了工作，他们再获取工作的可能性就远远小于比他们年轻的求职者。
There seems to be less concern about differences in age, with many bridegrooms in their 50s or 60s or even 70s.
对于年龄差别的关注反而不是很多。很多新郎都已经50多岁，60多岁，甚至70多岁。
The researchers concluded that children quaffing the cocktail containing tartrazine from both age groups were less well behaved than those who had been downing the placebo.
研究者们得出结论：从各不同的年龄组来看，喝过含有柠檬黄的饮料的孩子比起喝过作为安慰剂的饮料的孩子表现得要差。
On the other side of the ledger, teen age girls are less likely to drop out of high school than are teen age boys, and the earnings of high school dropouts are quite low.
另一方面，高中辍学的女性青少年比男性青少年少，并且辍学高中生的收入相当低。
People over age 60 sleep two hours less per night than their younger counterparts.
年龄超过60岁的人相比年轻时每天睡眠时间要减少2小时。
The higher your peak bone mass, the more bone you have "in the bank" and the less likely you are to develop osteoporosis as you age.
你的估量峰值越高，你的“银行”中就拥有越多的骨骼，而且在你上了年纪后患上骨质疏松症的可能性越小。
Obama, at age 47, is a relative newcomer to national politics, with less than four years in the Senate.
现年47岁的奥巴马，在参议院仅有不到4年的资历，在全国政坛来讲算是个新人。
His resurgence owed something to the success with which he concealed his disability, something to an age when journalism was less intrusive than it has since become.
他在政坛上的卷土重来多少来源于他成功地掩盖了自己身陷残疾的事实，同时也得益于当时新闻媒体较少的炒作。
The entire carcass of cattle not inspected and passed for human consumption is also prohibited, unless the cattle are less than 30 months of age, or the brains and spinal cords have been removed.
那些没有被检查过的和被人类习惯性认为可以消费的完整的牛的畜体也被禁止出售了，除非那头牛小于30月龄或其脑部和脊髓已经被切除。
And that is doubly true of the cells in stored blood since red blood cells become less flexible with age, and thus less able to squish into capillaries.
对于储藏的血液而言，情形更是如此，因为红细胞随年龄增长而日益失去灵活性，也就越来越难以挤到毛细血管里。
It would also significantly reduce spending on Medicare, although by less than 20% since persons over age 75 take the bulk of this spending because they are in worse health than younger retirees.
它还会显著降低医疗支出，虽然可能不会高于20%，因为人们到了75岁由于健康状况不及年轻的退休者才会使用这部分支出。
It was an age when what we call talent had far less consideration than now, but the massive materials which produce stability and dignity of character a great deal more.
那个时代，我们所说的天才远没有今天这样备受重视，但形成坚定与尊严的人格的多方面的因素却要大受青睐。
So in our twin studies, we have found that the twin who has moderate exposure to exercise in midlife is at less risk of becoming demented in old age.
在我们对双胞胎的研究中，我们发现那些中年时期适度锻炼的个体在老年时患上痴呆的风险较小。
Animals who lived in stressful conditions such as crowded cages had weaker immune systems and a higher susceptibility to heart disease, and died at a younger age than those in less crowded conditions.
居住在拥挤牢笼中的动物，由于环境压力，自身的免疫系统更弱，而且很可能会发生心脏疾病，并且比那些居住在宽敞环境中的动物更容易早死。
For women in the same age group, the difference is less marked but the trend is the same.
在女性中两者的比例的差距虽然较小，但总体趋势还是一样。
A similarly healthy 74-year-old woman could have arteries as young as 53, or 21 years less than her chronological age.
而同样健康的74岁女性其动脉年龄只有53岁，比其实际年龄要低21岁。
Damningly, in many combinations of age and subject, the more help children got, the less well they did.
更为严重的是，如果把年龄和学科联系起来，很多组合都表明孩子们得到的帮助越多，功课就越差。
Damningly, in many combinations of age and subject, the more help children got, the less well they did.
更为严重的是，如果把年龄和学科联系起来，很多组合都表明孩子们得到的帮助越多，功课就越差。
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