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1. This group will still include middle-income seniors on Medicare, wholl have to dig deeply into their pockets before getting much from the new drug benefit that starts in 2006. 【译文】这一群体中仍然包括依赖医疗保障制度的老年中产阶级，他们在享受到2006年起实施的新药改福利之前要投入大量积蓄。 【析句】复合句。主句This group will still include middle-income seniors on Medicare。主句后，who引导定语从句修饰middle-income seniors。而定语从句中，又包含定语从句that starts in 2006修饰the new drug benefit。 2. Buoyed by laws and court decisions, more and more older Americans are declining the retirement dinner in favor of staying on the job-thereby lessening employment and promotion opportunities for younger workers. 【译文】由于受到法律和法庭裁决的支持，越来越多的美国老年人拒绝退休，选择继续工作因而导致就业率降低，年轻人的晋升机会减少。 【析句】复合句。主句more and more older Americans are decling the retirement dinner in favor of staying on the job。主句前，buoyed by laws and court decisions是过去分词作原因状语;主句后，thereby lessening employement...workers则是现在分词作结果状语。 3. Senior citizen discounts only enhance the myth that older people cant take care of themselves and need special treatment; and they treaten the creation of a new myth, that the elderly are ungratelyful and taking for themselves at the expense of children and other age groups. | 
