The findings contradict the long established belief that the amount of sleep we need falls as we approach middle and old age.

这项研究反驳了长期以来的观点，即随着年龄的增长，我们需要的睡眠时间会变短。

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Some cited a shortage of money, others a belief that it is impossible to find a good partner once they had passed the age of 25.

有些人说是因为缺钱，其他人认为一旦过了25岁想找到一个好对象是不可能的。

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Superstition associated a heavily bearded man with old age and death, in addition to the superstitious belief of spirits which entered the body through hairs on the head.

有重胡须的男人老得快要死了。 另外还有人迷信说邪气会顺着头发进入人体。

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One has roommates, one has parents, in our own day and age, who of course share such a belief in the absolute singularity of the truth.

一个人在自己的岁月和日子里，有室友有父母,他们当然共享一个自己的真理信念。

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That belief is a religious doctrine of a much later age.

相信是上帝之作在后期才成为了宗教信条之一。

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In an age of social media, this frankness and genuine belief in a cause spreads like wildfire.

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One of the main aims of academic recruiters is to secure the best talent pool, regardless of age, gender, disability, race, sexual orientation, religion or belief.

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Although he has written appreciatively of some modern artists Picasso, Klee and more recently even Antony Gormley he has been critical, too, of certain conceits underlying the vogue for abstract art, particularly the belief that it is somehow necessitated by the spirit of the age.

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