The master, Mr. Dobbins, had reached middle age with an unsatisfied ambition.
老师，杜宾斯先生已经到了中年，但他追求的目标还没达到。
We live and work in an age with infinite online and offline demands on our time and attention.
我们活在一个对人的时间和注意力有着无限需求的时代，无论我们的状态是在线或是挂线。
That is beginning to cause huge demographic problems, as populations age with startling speed.
这正在开始造成严重的人口问题，因为人口以惊人的速度在老化。
HAVE you ever wondered, if you are of an age with your correspondent, about those missing channels on old television sets?
如果你和笔者处于同一时代，你是否也会对老旧电视机上的那些不见了的频道感到奇怪？
IN his 1964 book “Understanding Media, ” Marshall McLuhan helped define the modern age with his phrase, “The medium is the message.”
著名传播学学者麦克卢汉在其1964年发表的《理解媒介》一书中，用“媒介即讯息”来预言未来的摩登年代。
I watched a campaign organizer match up a young black man who looked to be college age with a white guy about my age to canvas together.
我看见一对黑人和白人组成的拉票搭档，黑人看上去象年轻的大学生，白人和我一般年纪。
For all its flaws, it was a bold idea: to replace the throw-away rockets that began the space age with a truck that could go in and out of orbit routinely.
鉴于它的所有缺点，这是个大胆的构想：以能够例行进出轨道的运载工具取代一次性的火箭而开启太空时代。
That it's at its best in our twenties, then slowly declines - until we are left in old age with tatters instead of dendrites in the brain and can't even remember our own name.
那种认为在我们二十多岁时达到巅峰状态，然后缓慢地下降，直到我们老的时候，我们大脑只会越用越旧，好像不是由树状的树突组成我们的大脑，而是破布组成的，甚至记不住自己的名字。
West Virginia, where I have just been, looked interesting from the start, a town called Wheeling with some huge bridges over a river. It all looked very industrial age with steel bridges.
我刚到了西佛吉尼亚，一开始就感觉很有看头，有一座名叫惠尔林的小镇上有几座跨越河流的大桥，这些钢架桥梁看起来很有工业时代的味道。
By analyzing just 150 spots on the genome, researchers can predict who will live to extreme old age with almost 80 percent accuracy, according to a study published online today in the journal Science.
根据一项今天发表在《Science》杂志在线上的研究表明，只通过分析基因组上的150个位点，研究人员就可以预测谁可以活到极端老龄，准确率几乎达到80%。
The flexibility of the lens decreases with age; it is therefore common for our sight to worsen as we get older.
眼球晶状体的柔韧性随着年龄的增长而降低；因此普遍的情况是随着我们年纪变老，我们的视力就会变差。
By age 16 he was playing professionally with bands in Greenwich Village.
到16岁时，他已在与格林尼治村的各乐队进行职业演出了。
She has been injecting herself with insulin since the age of 16.
她从16岁起就开始自行注射胰岛素。
He's going out with an empty-headed bimbo half his age.
他正在同一个年龄比他小一半的傻里傻气的性感女子来往。
Unlike physical energy, which is finite and diminishes with age, emotional energy is unlimited and has nothing to do with genes or up bringing.
与体力不同，体力是有限的而且会随着年龄的增长而减少，情绪能量是无限的，与基因或成长环境无关。
Technological change may well reinforce that shift: the skills that complement computers, from management knowhow to creativity, do not necessarily decline with age.
技术变革很可能促进这种转变：作为补充计算机的技能，从管理技能到创造力，不一定会随着时代的进步而衰败。
她的皱纹随着年龄增长而加深。
Unlike physical energy, which is finite and diminishes with age, emotional energy is unlimited and has nothing to do with genes or upbringing.
与体力不同，情绪能量是无限的，与基因或家庭教养无关。
Perhaps most exciting is research that suggests that crafts like knitting and crocheting may help to keep off a decline in brain function with age.
也许最令人兴奋的是研究表明，像编织和钩编这样的手艺可能有助于防止因年龄增长而导致的大脑功能下降。
Technophobia increases with age.
随着年龄的增长，技术恐惧感越来越强烈。
The proportion of regular smokers increases with age.
习惯吸烟的人口比重随年龄的增长而上升。
She shouldn't be having to deal with problems like this at such a tender age.
她小小年纪涉世未深，实在还不该处理这样的问题。
Three-quarters of working-age Americans work, compared with roughly 60% of Europeans.
3/4处于工作年龄的美国人在工作，相比之下欧洲约为60%。
Human brains come equipped with certain quantitative instincts that are refined with age, but these instincts are very limited.
随着年龄的增长，人类的大脑具有了一定的数量本能，但这种本能是非常有限的。
Never had his age, with which, however, he was always grumbling, seemed so miserable as on this evening.
他老是抱怨自己的时代，却从来没有像今天晚上这样悲惨。
Within academic departments, tenure, combined with age-discrimination laws, makes faculty turnover—critical for a university to remain current in changing times—difficult.
在学术部门中，终身教职加上年龄歧视法，使得教职人员流动变得至关重要，大学要想在变化的时代保持与时俱进是很困难的。
Sleepwalking usually has something to do with age and development.
梦游通常与年龄和发育有关。
The proportion of working-age people with jobs is lower than in the trough of the recession.
适龄劳动人口的就业比例还是低于经济衰退低谷时的比例。
The proportion of working-age people with jobs is lower than in the trough of the recession.
适龄劳动人口的就业比例还是低于经济衰退低谷时的比例。
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