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

美国女演员比利·伯克曾经说过：“年龄对于名人来讲至关重要，对于其他人而言倒是无所谓。”

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

然而，英国一项有关人们对于年龄所持态度的调查指出，青年年龄的上限为45岁。

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

调查还指出，老年的界限将从63岁开始，因此中间18年的时间被定义为中年时期。

The Department for Work and Pensions research studied the implications of age on equality and social cohesion¹.

英国就业与退休保障部门就年龄对于社会平等与社会凝聚力所起的作用进行了分析与研究。

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

该研究针对从2004年至2008年间的五次全国性调查进行了分析，共有6000名受访者参与其中。

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

调查显示，每个人对年龄的态度和解释可能都不一样。

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

被访者表示从30多岁开始，明显感到自己不再年轻；而只有到了75岁左右，他们才接受自己已经年老的事实。

There was some good news for the older generation, with more people saying they were more comfortable with a boss aged² over 70 than with somebody under 30 being in charge at work.

对于年长者的好消息是，人们普遍表示，被一个70岁以上的老板管理远比称呼一个30岁以下的人为老板要让人感觉舒服得多。