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1、The secret to anti ageing 成为 年轻的祖母 好处多多 A little over a year ago I would probably have dismissed Amanda Holden s newly revealed ambition to become a young grandmother as absurd 近日英国女演员兼 英国达人 评审阿曼达 霍尔顿 Amanda Holden 表示 希望自己能做个 年轻的祖母 一年多前 我也许会认为这个想法很荒谬 I would have raised my eyebrows and frowned somet
2、hing Amanda herself might find hard to do at the idea that the 43 year old actress and Britain s Got Talent judge was interested in anything other than turning back time 当时要是听到这位 43岁的演员只热衷于让时光倒流 我也许会扬起眉毛 眉头 深锁 What woman I used to think would seriously be anxious to undergo the most ageing experienc
3、e of her life Particularly Ms Holden who was pictured just days ago slipping out to supper in white shorts and six inch stilettos 我过去常想什么样的女人会真的担心衰老呢 霍尔顿就是个例子 媒体几天前拍 到她身穿白色热裤 蹬着6英寸的细高跟鞋外出吃晚餐 Young grandmother I always thought was the ultimate contradiction in terms 我一直认为 年轻的祖母 是个最自相矛盾的说法了 But 12 and
4、 a half months after the arrival of my granddaughter Edie I now know how wrong I was and how right Amanda is to worry that she won t get to be a granny until she is 80 Far from turning my hair grey and hastening the advent of false teeth and Tena Lady Pants grandparenting has been ridiculously rejuv
5、enating and made me just a little smug that unlike Amanda and an increasing number of other women today I had children in my twenties Amanda had her first daughter at 34 and her second at 41 12个半月前 我的孙女伊迪 Edie 的降世 我才意识到自己真是大错特错 阿曼 达担心自己 80岁才能当上祖母完全是有道理的 现在 我离满头白发 一口假 牙和穿成人纸尿裤的岁数还有好长一段时间 作为一个祖母 我仍然神采
6、焕发 这让我庆幸自己在 20多岁就生了小孩 而不像阿曼达和越来越多的女性那样推 迟生育 阿曼达 34岁生第一个女儿 41岁生第二个女儿 Indeed the Edie Effect on my life for which thank you Bryony and Harry has turned out to be the most marvellous anti ageing procedure anyone could imagine to a point that is very nearly infantile particularly when my granddaughter a
7、nd I are crawling round the house together whooping with laughter 的确 伊迪效应 Eddie Effect 这点我真得感谢我的女儿和女婿 让我体 验了他人无法想象的逆生长经历 尤其当我和孙女一块在房子四周爬来爬去大声 欢笑时 我甚至觉得自己回到了婴儿时期 More uninhibited and less pressured as a young grandmother than I was when I was a young mother I can live in the moment with Edie happily
8、spending hours sitting in the garden looking for birdies her favourite thing right now and singing along with Igglepiggle and Upsy Daisy as we watch In the Night Garden on CBeebies a programme that makes Mummy ill 与刚当上母亲那会相比 我现在更加无拘无束 也没什么压力 我可以活在当下 花上几个小时和伊迪一起坐在花园里找 小鸟儿 这是伊迪现在最喜欢的东 西 看动画片 花园宝宝 In t
9、he Night Garden on CBeebies 时跟着 花园 宝宝 一起唱歌 Sadly though the pleasure and privilege of being a young grandmother is something that more and more women will miss out on as the move to later motherhood continues three babies a week are now being to women in their sixth decade 遗憾的是 由于越来越多女性推迟生育年龄 现在每周出生
10、的婴儿中平均有三个 是60岁年龄段女性所生 她们无法享受年轻祖母的快乐和好处了 As a result among my own peer group women in their sixth decade there are clear signs of the development of granny envy 所以看得出来 我的同龄人 60多岁的女性 明显在羡慕那些当祖母的人 It is only with my friends who are also grandmothers that I can really relax and talk with undiluted senti
11、mentality about the beauty and the brilliance of my Edie Bear 我只有和那些同样当了祖母的朋友在一起时才能真正放心畅谈我漂亮聪明的孙 女 Just as motherhood is a universal bond so is grand motherhood and yes maybe there is an element of competition also that makes me sometimes check myself when I overhear the oft repeated words Oh she s
12、so bright adorable funny beautiful 和母爱一样 祖母对孙辈的感情也同样强烈 当然了 也许也有竞争的因素作祟 所以有时候 当我无意间听到那些不断提及的溢美之词时 例如 哦 她太聪明 了 真可爱 太有趣了 或 真漂亮 有时我总是会忍不住沾沾自 喜 But there is a practical and quite serious reason too for Amanda Holden s admitted desire to be a young grandmother In an age when financial pressure means that
13、both parents often have to work and child care is so prohibitive granny and granddad provide a vital support 不过就阿曼达 霍尔顿想早点当上祖母这件事来说 也有实际和严肃的考虑 现 在人们的经济压力很大 父母不得不忙于工作而无法照料孩子 祖母 和祖父 能提供重要帮助 Britain s 9 8 million strong army of us look after our grandchildren for an average 8 2 hours a week saving our
14、children between 1 659 and 2 437 a year 英国980 万的 祖父母军团 每周平均照料祖孙8 2个小时 每年能为子女省下 1659 至2437 英镑 And while in your fifties and sixties you are mentally alert enough to cope with things such as collapsing and reassembling a Bugaboo Cameleon operating a digital baby monitor or using the microwave steam st
15、eriliser you might have trouble in your seventies and eighties 五六十岁的时候 你还能有很好的精神状态来拆分或组装婴儿车 操纵婴儿监控 器或使用微波蒸汽消毒机 但到了七八十岁的时候 干这些事可能就没这么轻松 了 Being a hands on granny demands a degree of physical fitness too that may be beyond those who have health problems 当一个亲力亲为的祖母意味着要有个好身体 而有健康问题的人可能就没办法胜 任了 On the pl
16、us side for the young granny this physical effort can make a welcome alternative to the punishing regimes non grannies still endure who needs Bikram yoga or Pilates when you can have a hilarious babyweight workout dancing Edie round the room to the tune of Pharrell Williams singing Happy 当年轻祖母的一个好处是 你可以把带孩子当成一种锻炼 不用像那些没当上祖 母的同龄人那样费力地运动 和伊迪这样一个孙女一起随着美国歌手法瑞尔 威廉姆斯 Pharrell Williams 的歌 快乐 Happy 在房子四周跑跑跳跳 谁还需要练热瑜伽呢 On the downside of course we young grandmothers do still have to cope with the prejudi
