今天顶着一整天的熊猫眼都不敢出门了，岁月不饶人，老了呀！今天过后要对自己好点了，不要再熬夜，不

要再胡思乱想，全心全意爱自己。

小哈的口头禅就是女人要对自己好点哈。

老爸老妈今天又吵架了，唉，二十年多年都不嫌累。

最近开始反思自己会不会因为过分理智而显得有点冷酷无情，冷眼看这个世界。。寝室姐妹这样说我的。

睡觉吧，不然明天熊猫眼加眼袋就更不得了，晚安啦。。。。希望失眠的人越来越少。。。

We continue our series on learning disabilities with a problem that is not considered a learning disability by itself, but it can affect learing. Our subject is attention deficit disorder, ADD, and related form ADHD, attention dificit *（hyperactivity） disorder. These affect an estimated 5 to 10% of children worldwide.

现在我们继续关于学习能力障碍的系列报道，这次的问题本身不是一种学习障碍，但它却能影响学习。我们的主题是注意力缺陷障碍，即ADD，它与ADHD（即：注意缺陷多动障碍）有关。全世界估计有5%～10%的儿童受到这些障碍的影响。

Children who forget easily and never seem to finish tasks or pay attention might be found to have ADD. If, in addition, they seem overly active and unable to control their behavior, a doctor might say it is ADHD.

容易健忘、似乎从未完成过或专心于什么任务的孩子一般都被发现患有ADD。另外，如果他们表现地过度频繁地活动、不能够控制他们的行为，那么医生可能就会称这是ADHD。

Experts say the cause involves a chemical imbalance in the brain. It can affect not only school, but also personal relationships and the ability to keep a job later in life. Many of those affected also have learning disabilities or suffer from depression.

专家表示其病因与大脑中的某种化学失衡有关。它不只影响学习生活，更会影响个人的人际关系及未来生活中维持工作的能力。其中受影响的一些人还有学习障碍症或忧郁症。

Medicines can produce calmer, clearer thinking for periods of time. But the drugs can also have side effects like weight loss and sleep problems. And there is debate about the morality of medicating children. Susan S （Smalley）is a * （psychiatry ）professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. She just led a study of ADHD in northern *（Finland）.

药物能使一段时期的思维冷静清晰，但是药物也可能产生体重减轻和失眠等其他副作用。并且给孩子用药在道德上还存有争议。Sunsan Smalley是洛杉矶加利福利亚大学的精神病学教授，她刚在芬兰北部地区负责了一项有关ADHD的研究。

Or perhaps people who are happier live longer and this is responsible for a growing percentage of happy older people. Or he says maybe people have seen others their age die and they value more their own remaining years. The report is to be published in the journal "Social Science and Medicine".

或者可能是幸福感强的人活得更久，这也是年老者幸福感不断增长的原因。他还称，或许是因为他们看到同龄的人去世了，会更珍惜他们自己余下的日子。该报告发表于《社会科学与医疗》杂志。

Last December , government researchers reported a big increase in suicides among middle aged people in the United States. They look at *（injury） related death rates by age group from 1999 to 2004. They found that suicide increased almost 20% among people ages 45 to 54. No one ensure why.

去年12月，政府研究人员报道显示美国中年人当中自杀的人数剧增。他们分年龄组研究了从1999年到2004年间与伤害相关的死亡率。并发现，在45岁至54岁的人中，自杀人数增加了20%。没有人知道究竟是什么原因。

But comparison, rates generally fell for those 65 and older. And for people 20 to 29 the suicide rate was nearly unchanged.

但相比而言，对于那些65岁或更年长的老年人，这个比率通常会下降。对于20岁至29岁的人来说，自杀比率几乎没有改变。

The report from the centers for disease control and prevention noted that the findings are subject to some limitations. For example, accidental drug *（poisonings ） might some times be mistaken for suicides. Overall, suicides in the United States increased four percent from 1999 to 2004. That year 32,400 people took their own lives.

来自疾病控制和预防中心的报告指出，这些发现存在一些局限性。比如，意外的药物中毒有时候也可能被误认为自杀。总的来说，从1999到2004年，美国的自杀人数增长了4%。那些年共有32,400人结束了自己的生命。

A new study shows that unhappiness in middle age, also known as midlife crisis, is a universal experience. Two economists did the study: Andrew Oswald of the University of Warwick in England and David Blanchflower at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. They used information collected earlier on two million people from eighty nations.

一项新的研究显示中年时期的不幸福感,即人们所知的中年危机，是很普遍的经历。完成这项研究的是两位经济学家：一位是来自英国华威大学的Andrew Oswald，另一位是新罕布什尔州达特茅斯学院的David Blanchflower。他们使用的信息来自早期对80个国家200万人的研究。

They found that people around the world seem to share an emotional design in life. That design, they say, is shaped like the letter U. Levels of happiness are highest when people are young and when they are old. In the middle, however, most people's happiness and life satisfaction levels drop.

他们发现全世界的人们似乎共享着一种情感曲线。他们表示这个曲线图形就像字母U。在人们年轻和年老的时候，幸福感达到最高点。但是，在中年的时候，大多数人的幸福感和对生活的满意程度都会下降。

Professor Oswald says some people suffer from midlife depression more than others. But, he says, it happens to men and women, to single and married people, to rich and poor and to those with and without children.

Oswald教授表示中年人当中情绪压抑的人比其他年龄段的多。但他还表示，不管男女，单身或者已婚，富裕或者贫穷，有没有子女，都有可能出现这种情况。

Generally speaking, people reach their lowest levels between the ages of about forty and fifty-five. But then, as they continue into old age, their happiness starts to climb back up. What the research does not show is why all this happens. Professor Oswald says one possibility is that people recognize their limitations in middle age and give up on some long-held dreams.

总的来说，人们在40岁和45岁之间时幸福感达到最低点。但之后，随着年龄的增长，人们的幸福感会开始上升。这项研究没有表明的是这种现象发生的原因。Oswald教授表示，有一个可能性是，人们意识到他们在中年时期的局限性并放弃了长期坚持的梦想