摘要：英國(guó)一項(xiàng)有關(guān)人們對(duì)于年齡所持態(tài)度的調(diào)查指出，青年年齡的上限為45歲。

　　美國(guó)女演員比利·伯克曾經(jīng)說(shuō)過(guò)：“年齡對(duì)于名人來(lái)講至關(guān)重要，對(duì)于其他人而言倒是無(wú)所謂。”

　　US actress Billie Burke is reported to have said that "age is something that does not matter unless you are a cheese".

　　然而，英國(guó)一項(xiàng)有關(guān)人們對(duì)于年齡所持態(tài)度的調(diào)查指出，青年年齡的上限為45歲。

　　However, an analysis of attitudes to ageing in the UK has suggested that youth ends at the age of 45.

　　調(diào)查還指出，老年的界限將從63歲開始，因此中間18年的時(shí)間被定義為中年時(shí)期。

　　Old age, according to respondents in several surveys, starts at 63 years of age--leaving 18 years of middle age.

　　英國(guó)就業(yè)與退休保障部門就年齡對(duì)于社會(huì)平等與社會(huì)凝聚力所起的作用進(jìn)行了分析與研究。

　　The Department for Work and Pensions research studied the implications of age on equality and social cohesion.

　　該研究針對(duì)從2004年至2008年間的五次全國(guó)性調(diào)查進(jìn)行了分析，共有6000名受訪者參與其中。

　　The study considered five national surveys conducted between 2004 and 2008, with more than 6,000 respondents in total.

　　調(diào)查顯示，每個(gè)人對(duì)年齡的態(tài)度和解釋可能都不一樣。

　　The findings showed that people's consideration of age differed when referring to themselves.

　　被訪者表示從30多歲開始，明顯感到自己不再年輕;而只有到了75歲左右，他們才接受自己已經(jīng)年老的事實(shí)。

　　By their mid-30s, most respondents stopped describing themselves as young, and only by their mid-70s did they start calling themselves old.

　　對(duì)于年長(zhǎng)者的好消息是，人們普遍表示，被一個(gè)70歲以上的老板管理遠(yuǎn)比稱呼一個(gè)30歲以下的人為老板要讓人感覺(jué)舒服得多。

　　There was some good news for the older generation, with more people saying they were more comfortable with a boss aged over 70 than with somebody under 30 being in charge at work.

　　26%的被訪者表示自己經(jīng)歷過(guò)老年歧視，這不僅僅局限于是否已退休，工作狀況和婚姻狀況同樣是導(dǎo)致歧視的因素。

　　But 26% of those asked said they had experienced ageism. This was not just the retired, but also those who were not working or who were not married.

　　報(bào)告指出，大約有四分之一的被訪者認(rèn)為70歲以上的老人從社會(huì)經(jīng)濟(jì)體系中獲取的遠(yuǎn)大于貢獻(xiàn)的。

　　"Nearly a quarter of respondents believed that people over 70 take out more from the economy than they put in," the report said.

　　不過(guò)，住在英國(guó)約克郡和亨伯河三角洲的老人較少會(huì)遇到這種歧視。

　　However, this was less of an issue for people living in Yorkshire and the Humber than anywhere else in the UK.

　　分析還發(fā)現(xiàn)，居住在英格蘭東南部的人們更容易遇到老年歧視的問(wèn)題。

　　The analysis found that people in the south-east of England were more likely to have experienced ageism.

　　該報(bào)告做出結(jié)論：年齡上的歧視可能會(huì)影響青年人和老年人間的關(guān)系。而研究也發(fā)現(xiàn)，不同年齡群體之間的交錯(cuò)也相對(duì)較少。

　　This could affect the young and the old, the report concluded, and it also found that there was relatively little mixing between the age groups.

　　對(duì)于接受自己的“年老”，人們總是顯得很被動(dòng)。研究人員發(fā)現(xiàn)，隨之而來(lái)的便是人們不愿及時(shí)為以后的生活做準(zhǔn)備。

　　With people delaying their acceptance of being "old" as they went through life, the authors argued that there was evidence of people delaying the preparation for later life.

　　諾丁漢大學(xué)職業(yè)健康心理學(xué)的阿曼達(dá)·格里菲斯教授及她的研究團(tuán)隊(duì)發(fā)現(xiàn)，人們工作的壓力于50至55歲之間達(dá)到頂峰，之后隨著退休的臨近而日趨衰退。

　　Separate research led by Amanda Griffiths, professor of occupational health psychology at the University of Nottingham, found that stress levels at work peaked at about 50 to 55 years old and decreased in the years approaching retirement.