1. Older family members, who understood that the goal of marriage was to produce healthy sons, made the all-important decision of marriage.
    家里的长辈们认为结婚的目的就是要生下健康的儿子，因此有关婚姻的重要决定都是由他们作出的。

2. If there is one----which I take leave to doubt----then it is older people who create it, not the young themselves.
    如果这个问题存在的话 -- 请允许我对此持怀疑态度 -- 那么，这个问题是由老年人而不是青年人造成的。

3. I watched him go off the first morning with the older girl next door, seeing clearly that a stage of my life was ended.
    第一天早晨，我看着他和邻居家年龄比他大的小女孩一起出发，心里很清楚，我生活中的一个阶段已经结束了。

4. In general, "the evidence is increasing that the more older people can do in terms of exercise, the better off they are — with two pieces of advice," says Province.
    一般而言，"老年人做的运动越多，他们的身体就越好，这方面的证据越来越多。但有两点建议，"普罗文斯说。

5. Who studied 301 men and women aged 70 and older with at least one risk factor for falling, such as muscle weakness or use of certain medicines.
    她调查了301名70或70岁以上的男女，他们都至少有一种导致摔跤的风险因素，如肌肉无力或使用某些药物等。

6. For instance, if you are older you have less time to recover from any major losses,
    比如说，如果你年纪较大，你从重大投资损失中恢复过来的时间就较少，

7. First, older exercisers should be sure to check with a doctor to make sure any new exercise program is safe and appropriate.
    第一，老年运动者应该接受医生的检查，以确保新的锻炼计划安全合理。

8. Fourteen-year-old Sam Wilson ran away from home to join his father and older brothers in the fight to liberate the American colonies from the British during the American Revolution.
    美国独立战争时期，14岁的山姆·威尔逊离家出走，加入父亲和哥哥们的行列，为美国殖民地独立于英国而战。

9. First, I moved. And while I found easy acceptance among older people in the community, when younger people talked to me they invariably would say something like, "You remind me of my grandmother."
    首先，我搬家了。在新的环境里我很容易融入到年长者中去，而当年青人与我说话时，他们总会说"你使我想起我外婆"之类的话，