上一个文章开到日期是2018年5.13，呵呵。今天突然想起来是因为中午听了诺言，新沉静下来的时候突然想起了，说明最想做的事情还是这个。
The notion that when the youngest child leaves home, middle-aged parents, especially mothers, become deeply depressed and feel that life is over for them has many believers.
Yet at least one study attacks that notion. It shows that many, perhaps most, parents are not depressed at all; rather, they look forward to a simpler, less demanding, life.
Similarly, until recently, most scientists accepted that senility is a result of the physical deterioration of the brain and is both progressive and irreversible.
Then experimenters in an Alabama veterans’ hospital found that in many cases the symptoms of senility—confusion, disorientation, and withdrawal from reality—can be halted and even reversed by “a simple program of keeping the aged constantly in touch with the surrounding environment.”
Books and articles referring to athletes’ “second wind” abound. Yet Nyles Humphrey and Robert Ruhling of the University of Utah have presented evidence that there really is no second wind and that the sensation experienced by many athletes is merely psychological.
depressed /dɪˈprest/沮丧的
demanding /dɪˈmɑːndɪŋ/ n.强烈要求 adj.要求高的
senility /səˈnɪləti/ 衰老
deterioration /dɪˌtɪəriəˈreɪʃn/ 退化
progressive /prəˈɡresɪv/渐进的
irreversible 不可逆的
Alabama美国阿拉巴马州
veteran /ˈvetərən/老兵
in many cases 很多情况下
halted停止ed
symptoms /ˈsɪmptəms/症状
aged老年人的
disorientation /dɪsˌɔːriənˈteɪʃn/ 迷失方向，迷惑
withdrawal/wɪθˈdrɔːəl/ 撤退
athlete/ˈæθliːt/ 运动员
abound /əˈbaʊnd/ V!充满，比比皆是
merely/ˈmɪəli/ 仅仅adv
Utah/'ju:tɑ:/ 美国犹他州
有很多人相信：当家里最小的孩子离家时，中年父母尤其是妈妈会变得非常沮丧，感觉生活都完了。然而，不止一项研究反驳了这个观点。研究显示，很多甚至绝大部分家长完全不会感到沮丧，相反，他们很期待这样简单，要求少的生活。
类似的，直到最近很多科学家还认为衰老是大脑物理性退化的结果，是过程性且不可逆的。阿拉巴马州退伍医院试验员发现很多情况下，衰老的症状包括困惑，迷失方向，逃避现实等都可以被停止甚至通过持续使老人与周围环境接触做到让衰老回退。
书本或文章上提到运动员的重焕活力比比皆是。但是提出证据表明现实是没有重焕活力，很多运动员所提及经历过的感觉仅仅是心理上的。
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