We now live in an age of plastic, she says, "and what we decide to collect today, what we decide to preserve … will have a strong impact on how in the future we'll be seen."

现在我们生活在塑料时代，她说：“现在我们决定收集什么，保护什么……将极大影响后人如何定义我们的时代。”

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And scientists have learned from advanced imaging how very plastic and adaptable the brain is from about the age of 3 through adolescence.

科学家从先前的成像中发现从三岁开始的整个青少年时代中大脑的可塑性着实非常强。

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Some doctors have some different opinions about this idea, that is when babies attain the age of six months or at any other time when babies can hold their own plastic straw cup.

不过一些医生对此观点持有不同的意见，他们认为婴儿在6个月或当宝宝可以拿着他们自己的塑料管杯的时候就可以喝代替母乳的饮料了。

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At age 24--among the first to use plastic strapping, instead of wire, to wrap newspaper bundles after they leave the printing press--he bought out his father's partner and relaunched the company as Power Industries.

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