VOA慢速英语:New Findings on Sleep in Children, Older Adults

interfere with干预, 阻挠, 妨碍, 阻止
例句：The noise interferes with my work.
这噪音妨碍我的工作。

2. The central finding overall is that sleep-disordered breathing is associated with a fifty percent increase in adverse neurobehavioral outcomes.

associate with与…交往, 联系
例句：The doctor was associated in the child's mind with injections and pains.
在孩子的心里, 医生总是使他联想到打针与疼痛。

3. Those problems include hyperactivity, aggressiveness and problems relating to other children.

relate to涉及, 关系到…; 同…有…关系
例句：The unemployment figures are not necessarily related to the rise in prices.
失业的数目同物价的上涨并没有必然的联系。

4. Other studies have linked sleep with children's behavior, but this study was extensive enough to reject other possible causes.

link with将…与…连接〔系〕在一起
例句：Einstein's theory links energy with mass and velocity of light.
爱因斯坦的理论把能量同质量和光速联系起来。

5. A smaller number suffer from other sleep-disordered breathing.

suffer from因(疾病)而痛或不舒服;因...而更糟;受...之苦
例句：She often suffers from headaches.
她常常头痛。

6. Michael Grandner at the University of Pennsylvania medical school says the original goal was to confirm that aging is connected with increased sleep problems.

connect with使有关系
例句：His research work is connected with these experiments.
他的研究工作与这些实验有联系。

7. But except for that, people reported that their sleep quality improved as they got older.

except for除…之外
例句：His composition is excellent except for some grammatical mistakes.
他的作文写得很好, 只有几处语法错误。