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Such problems are a universal feature of old age.

这类问题是老年人的通病。

"Sugar, alcohol and tobacco," economist Adam Smith once wrote, "are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which have become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are, therefore, extremely popular subjects of taxation."

经济学家亚当·斯密曾经写道：“糖、酒和烟草不是生活必需品，而是几乎全球都在消费的商品，因此，它们是极受欢迎的征税对象。”

Combine these higher thought processes with our hardwired danger-detection systems, and you get a near-universal human phenomenon: worry.

把这些高级思维过程与我们固有的风险探测系统结合起来，你就会得到一个几乎普遍存在的人类现象：担忧。

The Universal Product Code symbol, also known as the 'bar code', is printed on products for sale and contains information that a computer can read.

通用产品代码符号，亦称“条形码”，印在出售的商品上，其中含有计算机能识别的信息。

Chomsky meant that underneath all the differences between public and private languages, there is a universal language mechanism that makes it possible for us, as infants, to learn any language in the world.

乔姆斯基的意思是，在公共语言和私人语言之间的所有差异之下，存在着一种通用的语言机制，使我们能够像婴儿一样学习世界上的任何语言。

Our culture has caused most Americans to assume not only that our language is universal but that the gestures we use are understood by everyone.

我们的文化使大多数美国人认为，不仅我们的语言是通用的，而且我们所使用的手势是每个人都能理解的。

There are no universals in this field.

这个领域不存在普遍适用的原理。