考研时间管理用沙漏还是闹钟（sleep对老人的重要性）
考研时间管理用沙漏还是闹钟（sleep对老人的重要性）(5) We now see sleep and improving sleep as a new pathway for helping remedy that." said the article's senior author Matthew Walker a UC Berkeley professor of psychology and neuroscience.(4) "We've done a good job of extending life span but a poor job of extending our health span.(1) As we grow old our nights are frequently plagued by bouts of wakefulness bathroom trips and other nuisances
我相信这么 努力 的你 已经 置顶了夏老师
在考试真题中出现过几次有关衰老和睡眠的文章。今天的文章《每日科学》（2017年4月），原文标题为“Deep sleep may act as fountain of youth in old age”。
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(1) As we grow old our nights are frequently plagued by bouts of wakefulness bathroom trips and other nuisances as we lose our ability to generate the deep restorative slumber we enjoyed in youth.
(2) But does that mean older people just need less sleep?
(3) Not according to UC Berkeley researchers who argue in an article published April 5 in the journal Neuron that the unmet sleep needs of the elderly elevate their risk of memory loss and a wide range of mental and physical disorders.
(4) "We've done a good job of extending life span but a poor job of extending our health span.
(5) We now see sleep and improving sleep as a new pathway for helping remedy that." said the article's senior author Matthew Walker a UC Berkeley professor of psychology and neuroscience.
【解词】
to plague v. 使痛苦；烦恼
bout* n. 回合；一阵（超纲词）
nuisance n. 问题，麻烦
restorative a. 恢复的
slumber* n. （1）睡觉 （2）麻痹
to elevate their risk of 提高了风险
a wide range of 各种各样的
mental and physical disorders 精神和身体疾病
to extend life span 延长寿命
pathway n. 通道
to remedy v. 弥补
neuroscience n. 神经科学
【解句】
第（1）句As we grow old / our nights are frequently plagued / by bouts of wakefulness bathroom trips and other nuisances / as we lose our ability / to generate the deep restorative slumber / we enjoyed in youth.
（1）句子的主干为 our nights are frequently plagued by bouts of wakefulness bathroom trips and other nuisances（主谓结构，被动句）。
（2）句首连词as引导时间状语从句。
（3）句末连词as引导原因状语从句as we lose our ability to generate the deep restorative slumber we enjoyed in youth. 其中，we enjoyed in youth是修饰slumber的定语从句。
【译文】
(1) As we grow old our nights are frequently plagued by bouts of wakefulness bathroom trips and other nuisances as we lose our ability to generate the deep restorative slumber we enjoyed in youth.
——当我们慢慢变老时，时常打扰我们晚上睡眠的是一次次醒来、上卫生间和其他问题，因为我们失去了产生深度恢复性睡眠的能力。
(2) But does that mean older people just need less sleep?
——但那意味着年长者需要更少的睡眠吗？
(3) Not according to UC Berkeley researchers who argue in an article published April 5 in the journal Neuron that the unmet sleep needs of the elderly elevate their risk of memory loss and a wide range of mental and physical disorders.
——按照加州大学伯克利研究者的说法，答案是否定的。研究者们发表在4月5日出版在《神经元》的文章中提出，年长者不能满足的睡眠需要增加了失忆和各种身心疾病的风险。
(4) "We've done a good job of extending life span but a poor job of extending our health span.
——文章的资深作者Matthew Walker（伯克利心理学和神经科学教授）说：“增加寿命方面我们有所作为，但增加健康寿命方面却建树很少。
(5) We now see sleep and improving sleep as a new pathway for helping remedy that." said the article's senior author Matthew Walker a UC Berkeley professor of psychology and neuroscience.
——我们此刻认为睡眠和改善睡眠是补救措施。”
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