The upshot was that, as Dr Grossmann had found before, Americans do get wiser with age.

与Grossmann博士以前的结果一样，美国人随着年龄的增长智慧增加。

A study two years ago in North America, by Igor Grossmann of the University of Waterloo, in Canada, suggested that it is.

两年前，加拿大滑铁卢大学Igor Grossmann博士的研究显示情况的确如此。

In as much as it is possible to quantify wisdom, Dr Grossmann found that elderly Americans had more of it than youngsters.

由于智慧可以标准量化，他发现年长的美国人的确比年轻人要聪明。

'It is impossible to characterize thought processes attributed to wisdom without considering the role of contextual factors, ' explains Grossmann.

“如果不考虑背景因素的作用， 就不可能描述归因于智慧的思维过程， ”格罗斯曼解释道。

'Ego-decentering promotes greater focus on others and enables a bigger picture, conceptual view of the experience, affording recognition of intellectual humility and change, ' says Grossmann.

格罗斯曼说：“自我中心化促进了对他人的更多关注， 并实现了更大的图景，对体验的概念性看法，提供了对知识谦逊和变化的认可。”

Coming up with a definition of wisdom is challenging, but Grossmann and his colleagues have identified four key characteristics as part of a framework of wise reasoning.

提出智慧的定义具有挑战性，但格罗斯曼和他的同事们已经确定了四个关键特征作为明智推理框架的一部分。

Grossmann and his colleagues have also found that one of the most reliable ways to support wisdom in our own day-to-day decisions is to look at scenarios from a third-party perspective, as though giving advice to a friend.

格罗斯曼和他的同事还发现， 在我们自己的日常决策中支持智慧的最可靠方法之一是从第三方的角度看待情景，就像给朋友提建议一样。