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  • Alice: Hello and welcome to 6 Minute English. I'm Alice.

    愛麗絲:你好,歡迎來到6分鐘英語。我'是愛麗絲。

  • Rob: And I'm Rob. Now, Alice ... how old are you?

    而我'是羅布。現在,愛麗絲......你多大了?

  • Alice: I'm 21, Rob ... not a day older!

    愛麗絲:我'21歲,羅布......一天也不比我大!

  • Rob: Come on, don't be coy about your age, Alice!

    來吧,不要對你的年齡諱莫如深,愛麗絲!

  • Coy, by the way, means not wanting to give away information about yourself.

    對了,靦腆的意思是不想洩露自己的資訊。

  • Alice: I'm not being coy, Rob.

    愛麗絲:我'不是忸怩作態,羅布。

  • I just... don't feel like telling everyone how old I am.

    我只是... ...不想告訴大家我有多老。

  • Some people think it's rude to ask.

    有些人認為這樣問很不禮貌。

  • Rob: I don't mean to be rude of course but ... well, you are being coy.

    羅布:我當然不是故意要無禮,但是......好吧,你很靦腆。

  • I'm asking because today we're talking about age and whether you can be too old for some things.

    我之所以這麼問,是因為今天我們要討論的是年齡問題,以及你是否會因為某些事情而變得太老。

  • What do you think?

    你覺得呢?

  • Alice: I'm too old to order off children's menus in restaurants, but I still do it.

    愛麗絲:我'太老了,不能在餐館裡點掉兒童'的菜單,但我還是會這麼做。

  • Rob: Anything else?

    羅伯:還有什麼事嗎?

  • Alice: Well, I couldn't pull an all-nighter anymore.

    愛麗絲嗯,我不能拉一個通宵了。

  • Rob: OK. That's another way of saying stay up all night to finish something.

    羅布:好吧,這是另一種說法,即熬夜完成某事。

  • That's what students do to get their work done.

    這'就是學生們的工作。

  • Alice: I used to be able to do it, and now I couldn't.

    愛麗絲:我以前能做到,現在卻做不到。

  • I struggle to stay up on New Year's Eve until midnight.

    我努力在除夕夜熬到半夜。

  • But let's move on to today's quiz question.

    但讓我們'繼續今天的問答題吧。

  • What percentage of people aged over 65 surveyed in the UK described themselves as old?

    在英國接受調查的65歲以上的人中,有多大比例的人稱自己是老人?

  • Is it ... a) 6%? b) 16%? Or c) 60%?

    是......a)6%? b)16%?還是c)60%?

  • Rob: Well, I think it's just a) 6%. People don't like to think of themselves as old.

    羅布:好吧,我認為它'只是a)6%。人們不'不喜歡把自己當成老人。

  • Alice: Well, we'll find out if you got the answer right or wrong later on in the show.

    愛麗絲。好了,我們'會發現,如果你得到的答案 是正確的或錯誤的,稍後在節目中。

  • First, let's explore the subject of aging more.

    首先,讓我們多探討一下老齡化的話題。

  • Tell me, Rob, do you think you can be too old to take up a new hobby?

    告訴我,羅布,你覺得你會不會太老了,不能再有新的愛好了?

  • Rob: I might be, I mean, depends on the hobby of course.

    羅伯:我可能會,我是說,當然要看愛好。

  • I went for a run the other day, and it nearly killed me.

    前幾天我去跑步,差點要了我的命。

  • Alice: That just means you're unfit, Rob!

    愛麗絲這只是意味著你'不適合,羅布!

  • Let's listen to Ernestine Shepherd who didn't think she was too old to take up an interesting new hobby.

    讓我們來聽聽歐內斯汀-謝潑德的意見,她不認為自己太老了,不願意接受一個有趣的新愛好。

  • At the age of 71 she started bodybuilding and is currently listed in the Guinness Book

    71歲時,她開始健美,目前已被列入吉尼斯大全。

  • of Records as the oldest female bodybuilder in the world.

    作為世界上最年長的女性健美運動員的記錄。

  • Ernestine Shepherd: If ever there were an anti-aging pill, I would call it exercise.

    Ernestine Shepherd:如果說有一種抗衰老的藥丸,我會把它叫做運動。

  • I enjoy working out with the people who come to the church.

    我喜歡和來教會的人一起鍛鍊。

  • Sometimes they say, "Oh, this hurts!" But I tell people, "Age is nothing but a number!"

    有時他們會說,"哦,這很痛!"但我告訴人們,"年齡不過是一個數字!&quot。

  • I am 75 years of age. This morning I awakened at 2.30.

    我今年75歲了。今天早上我在2點半醒來。

  • I have a group of four other people who run with me in the mornings.

    我還有一個小組,有四個人和我一起晨跑。

  • We run about ten miles. Every day.

    我們跑了大約10英里。每天都跑。

  • Rob: Wow! That was Ernestine Shepherd. What an example to us all!

    羅伯:哇哦!那是歐內斯廷-謝潑德。那是歐內斯廷-謝潑德。什麼是我們所有人的榜樣!

  • Alice: Work out, by the way, means taking exercise to make yourself fit.

    愛麗絲。鍛鍊,順便說一下,就是要通過鍛鍊讓自己變得健康。

  • I think it's true that if we did more exercise every day, we would all look and feel much better.

    我想這是真的,如果我們每天多做運動,我們都會看起來和感覺更好。

  • Rob: Ernestine is all for exercise but I'm afraid I'd take some anti-aging pill if one existed.

    羅布:歐內斯汀是所有的運動,但我'如果有的話,恐怕我會吃一些抗衰老的藥片。

  • Alice: If something is advertised as being anti-aging it means it's designed to stop you looking older.

    愛麗絲:如果某樣東西被宣傳為抗衰老,那就意味著它'的設計是為了阻止你看起來更老。

  • Rob: And you can find hundreds of products these days that claim to have anti-aging properties.

    羅伯:而且現在你可以找到數百種聲稱具有抗衰老功能的產品。

  • Lots of lotions and potions for women in particular!

    特別是針對女性的乳液和藥水很多!

  • Alice: Yes. That's because women feel pressurized to look younger than their age.

    愛麗絲是的。那是因為女性感到有壓力,要比她們的年齡看起來更年輕。

  • It's an example of ageism and it isn't fair.

    這'是一個年齡歧視的例子,它不公平。

  • Rob: Ageism means discrimination against people because of their age.

    羅伯:年齡歧視是指因為年齡而歧視人。

  • And sometimes people can be discriminated against in the workplace for being 'too old'.

    而有時人們在職場上會因為'年齡過大&39;而受到歧視。

  • Now, do you think you could be too old to take up a new job, Alice?

    現在,你覺得你會不會太老了,不適合做新工作,愛麗絲?

  • Alice: No, I don't get the concept of too old at all.

    愛麗絲。 - 不,我根本不明白太老的概念。不,我不'的概念 太老了,在所有。

  • My grandparents both still work and they have more enthusiasm and energy than I do.

    我的爺爺奶奶都還在工作,他們比我更有熱情和精力。

  • They hate being called senior citizens and old-age pensioners

    他們討厭別人叫他們老人家和養老金領取者。

  • or by the initials of these words, OAP.

    或由這些詞的首字母組成,OAP。

  • And they are right: who wants to be defined by their age?

    他們說的沒錯:誰願意被年齡定義?

  • Rob: You just said: "Don't get this concept".

    羅伯:你剛才說:"別'不懂這個概念"。

  • And to get something means to understand it.

    而得到一些東西,就意味著瞭解它。

  • So I suppose you stay the same inside ... it's just the outside that changes!

    所以,我想你的內心是不變的......只是外在發生了變化!

  • We have to be young at heart at least.

    我們至少要有一顆年輕的心。

  • And age is no reason for some people to stop working if they are in good health.

    而如果身體健康,年齡也不是一些人停止工作的理由。

  • Let's listen to Trisha Cusden who started a new business at 65 supplying beauty products for older women.

    讓我們來聽聽特麗莎-庫斯登在65歲時開始為老年婦女提供美容產品的新業務。

  • Her age actually inspired her choice of work.

    她的年齡其實啟發了她對工作的選擇。

  • Trisha Cusden: I've had an idea, I've seen a problem and an opportunity,

    特里莎-庫斯登。我有一個想法,我看到了一個問題和一個機會。

  • and I've done something about it.

    而我'已經做了一些事情。

  • And created a business which I'm very happy to say is very successful.

    並創建了一個企業,我'很高興地說,這是非常成功的。

  • I mean [when] I started it, it was going to be a hobby, you know, something to keep me

    我的意思是,[當]我開始它, 它將是一個愛好,你知道, 東西讓我保持。

  • out of trouble, give me something to do.

    擺脫麻煩,給我一些事情做。

  • Rob: Trisha Cusden there. She started a new hobby and it turned into a successful business enterprise.

    羅伯:特里莎-庫斯登在那裡。她開始了一個新的愛好,它變成了一個成功的商業企業。

  • Now, before we finish, I'd just like to put the case for older men.

    現在,在我們結束之前,我'只想把老男人的情況。

  • My dad, my granddad, Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Harrison Ford ... they're all fantastic

    我爸爸,我爺爺,肖恩-康納利,邁克爾-凱恩,哈里森-福特......他們都很出色。

  • role models for us younger guys.

    榜樣我們年輕的傢伙。

  • Alice: And a role model is somebody people admire and want to copy.

    愛麗絲而榜樣是有人 人們欽佩 並希望複製。

  • Rob: Well, that brings us round to the matter of today's quiz question, Alice.

    羅伯:好吧,這就把我們繞到了今天'的問答題上,愛麗絲。

  • Alice: Yes, it does. I asked: What percentage of people aged over 65 surveyed in the UK

    愛麗絲是的,確實如此。我問道。在英國65歲以上的人中,有多大比例的人接受了調查?

  • described themselves as old in a survey?

    在一項調查中稱自己是老?

  • Is it ... a) 6%, b) 16% or c) 60%?

    是......a)6%,b)16%還是c)60%?

  • Rob: Yep. And I said a) 6%. Was I right?

    羅伯:是的。我說a)6%。我說的對嗎?

  • Alice: Yes, you were! You were right! Well done!

    愛麗絲是的,你是!你是對的!幹得好!

  • More than 2,000 people aged between 65 and 93 were surveyed by UK market research firm YouGov.

    英國市場研究公司YouGov對2000多名65歲至93歲的人進行了調查。

  • Now here are the words we learned today, Rob.

    這是我們今天學到的詞,羅布。

  • Rob: They are:

    羅伯:他們是。

  • coy

    靦腆

  • pull an all-nighter

    通宵達旦

  • work out

    鍛鍊

  • anti-aging

    抗衰老

  • ageism

    年齡歧視

  • senior citizen

    長者

  • old-age pensioner (or OAP)

    養老金領取者

  • get something

    得手

  • role model

    榜樣

  • Alice: Well, that's the end of today's 6 Minute English.

    愛麗絲好了,這'是今天的結束'6分鐘的英語。

  • Don't forget to join us again soon!

    不要忘了很快再加入我們的行列!

  • Both: Bye.

    都:再見。

Alice: Hello and welcome to 6 Minute English. I'm Alice.

愛麗絲:你好,歡迎來到6分鐘英語。我'是愛麗絲。

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