1. Aunt Harriet lived in that leisurely age when servants were employed to do housework.
    哈丽特生活在一个悠闲的年代，家务事都由雇来的佣人代劳。

2. A third type of creative experience is exemplified by the dreams which came to Descartes at the age of twenty-three and determined his life path.
    笛卡尔23岁时所作过的、决定了他的人生道路的一些梦，可以作为第三种创造性经历的例证。

3. Although many people assume that balance and movement problems are inevitable with age, an increasing body of evidence demonstrates that exercise can help improve balance and strength in elderly individuals and reduce their chance of falling.
    尽管许多人认为难以保持平衡和活动不便的问题随着衰老而不可避免，但越来越多的证据表明，运动有助于老年人增强平衡能力和增长力气，可减少他们摔跤的可能性。

4. At age 23, he started a meatpacking business and earned a reputation for being honest and hard working.
    23岁时，他开始从事肉类加工业，并因为人诚实、工作勤奋而赢得声誉。

5. A professor who studies early learning has attacked this myth, saying that when he looked into Gauss's childhood, he found that Gauss's mother had been teaching him numbers at the age of two.
    一位研究早期学习的教授驳斥了这一说法，称他研究了高斯的童年，发现在他两岁时，母亲就教给他数字。

6. According to one psychological expert, when men gain a little gray hair, their appeal often increases because, for them, age implies power, success, wealth, and position.
    据一位心理学专家说，男人头发有点花白通常增添了他们的魅力，因为对他们而言，年龄意味着权力、成功、财富及地位。

7. As Daniel Goleman suggests in his new book, Emotional Intelligence, the latest scientific findings seem to indicate that intelligent but inflexible people don't have the right stuff in an age when the adaptive ability is the key to survival.
    正如丹尼尔·戈尔曼在他的新书《情感智能》中所说，最新的科研结果似乎表明，在一个适应能力是生存关键的年代，聪明但缺乏灵活性的人并不具备这种适应的才能。

8. Yet for 38 young passengers between fifteen and eighteen years of age, it is the start of a new experience:
    然而对于飞机上的38个年龄在15到18岁之间的年轻乘客来说，这是一次全新经历的开始：

9. You see, we have figured out that age ten is about the time that a child can really put reading and mathematical skills to use.
    你看，我们已得知10岁这个年龄正是孩子能真正开始使用阅读和计算技能的时候。

10. She was barely walking at the age of four.
    她四岁时才勉强会起路。