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His elder son was killed in a car crash a few years ago.

他大儿子几年前死于一次车祸。

But an accumulating body of research indicates that some distinctions between one type of elder care and another have little real bearing on how well residents do.

但越来越多的研究表明，一种类型的老人护理和另一种类型的老人护理之间的一些区别对居民的生活状况几乎没有真正的影响。

They have no respect for their elders.

他们对长辈毫无敬意。

Within just the past five years, I have noticed parents returning to a belief that teenagers need the guidance of elders rather than the liberal, "anything goes" mode of child-rearing that became popular in the second half of the 20th century.

就在过去的五年里，我注意到，父母们又开始相信青少年需要长辈的指导，而不是20世纪下半叶流行的那种“自由放任”的育儿方式。

He won the support of tribal elders.

他赢得了部落长老的支持。