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Hi，我是新海，一个正在备战的考研人。
最近需要进行大量的考研专项阅读，于是萌生了一个翻译计划，准备翻译1986——2018年所有阅读，通过大量的阅读训练来熟悉考研单词，短语以及语法，更深刻理解考研阅读。

下面是我的第18篇，所有中文释义，均是由本人整理翻译，当然也有不够完善的地方，欢迎大家评论补充。

The old idea that talented children “burn themselves out” in the early years, and, therefore, are subjected to failure and at worst, mental illness is unfounded. As a matter of fact, the outstanding thing that happens to bright kids is that they are very likely to grow into bright adults.
那种认为有才华的孩子在早年“自我焚毁”，因此遭受失败，最糟糕的是，精神疾病的旧观念是没有根据的。事实上，聪明孩子遇到的最突出的事情是他们很可能成长为聪明的成年人。
To find this out, l, 500 gifted persons were followed up to their thirty-fifth year with these results:
为了找出这一点，L，500个天才被跟踪到他们的第三十五年，这些结果：
On adult intelligence tests, they scored as high as they had as children. They were, as a group, in good health, physically and mentally. 84 per cent of their group were married and seemed content with their lives.
在成人智力测验中，他们的得分和孩子一样高。作为一个群体，他们在身体和精神上都很健康。他们中的84%人结婚了，似乎满足于他们的生活。
About 70 per cent had graduated from college, though only 30 per cent had graduated with honors. A few had even dropped out, but nearly half of these had returned to graduate. Of the men, 80 per cent were in one of the professions or in business management or semiprofessional jobs. The women who had remained single had office, business, or professional occupations.
大约有70%人从大学毕业，尽管只有30%人获得了优异的成绩。一些人甚至辍学，但其中近一半已经毕业了。在这些人中，有80%人从事某一职业或从事商业管理或半职业性工作。单身女性拥有办公室、商业或专业职业。
The group had published 90 books and 1,500 articles in scientific, scholarly, and literary magazines and had collected more than 100 patents.
该组织在科学、学术和文学杂志上发表了90本书和1500篇文章，并收集了100多项专利。
In a material way they did not do badly either. Average income was considerably higher among the gifted people, especially the men, than for the country as a whole, despite their comparative youth.
从物质上看，他们也做得不差。有天赋的人，特别是男性的平均收入显著高于整个国家，尽管他们比较年轻。
In fact, far from being strange, most of the gifted were turning their early promise into practical reality.
事实上，绝大多数天才都把他们的早期承诺变成了现实。

• talented children才智儿童
• early years初年
• mental illness精神病
• As a matter of fact事实上，其实; 说起来
• very likely很有可能
• adult intelligence成年智力
• in good health身体好[坏]; 康健; 起居无恙; 无恙
• content with使满足于…
• graduated from毕业于
• with honors人生点滴是真情

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作者：新海
11月18日晚