I really want to see some twentysomethings here.

我非常希望在现场见到二十多岁的听众。

Raise your hand if you are in your twenties. I really want to see some twentysomethings here.

如果你现在20多岁请举手，我非常想在这里看到一些20多岁的人。

If you work with twentysomethings, you love a twentysomething, you're losing sleep over twentysomethings, I want to see.

如果你和二十多岁的年轻人共事，或是你的交往对象二十多岁，或者是你非常关心二十多岁的年轻人，我想知道你们在哪里？

So yes, half of twentysomethings are un- or under-employed.

因此，没错，半数二十多岁的人并未就业或拥有全职工作。

Journalists coin silly nicknames for twentysomethings

新闻记者赋予二十岁世代一些愚蠢的绰号。

I want to change what twentysomethings are doing and thinking.

我希望改变二十岁时代的做法和想法。

But this isn't what twentysomethings are hearing.

但很少有二十多岁的年轻人听说过这件事。

Researchers call the twenties an extended adolescence. Journalists coin silly nicknames for twentysomethings like " twixters" and " kidults" .

研究人员说20多岁是青春的延长期。记者为20多岁的人起的外号是“夹在中间的人”和“成年孩子”。

Not just for Alex and her love life, but for the careers and the families and the futures of twentysomethings everywhere.

不仅对 Alex 和她的爱情生活来说如此，对所有二十岁的年轻人的事业、家庭和未来亦然。

Now Emma's story made that sound easy, but that's what I love about working with twentysomethings.

Emma 的故事使这件事显得轻而易举，但这就是我喜爱辅导二十岁左右年轻人的原因。

Oh, yay! Y'all's awesome. If you work with twentysomethings, you love a twentysomething, you're losing sleep over twentysomethings, I want to see. Okay. Awesome.

你们真棒。如果你和20多岁的人共事，你爱着一个20多岁的人，你在20多岁时失眠，我想看到你们。

So I specialize in twentysomethings because I believe that every single one of those 50 million twentysomethings deserves to know what psychologists, sociologists, neurologists and fertility specialists already know

因此我专门研究了他们，因为我认为这五千万名二十多岁年轻人中的每一位都该知道心理学家、社会学家、神经学家及生育专家都知道的事情。

Best friends are great for giving rides to the airport, but twentysomethings who huddle together with like-minded peers limit who they know, what they know, how they think, how they speak, and where they work.

好友是载你去机场的绝佳人选，但二十岁左右的年轻人常聚集的对象，在于志同道合的同龄族群，局限于相识者，彼此知道的事，相似的思考模式和说话方式，及工作地点。

It's what I now have the privilege of saying to twentysomethings like Emma every single day: 30 is not the new 20, so claim your adulthood, get some identity capital, use your weak ties, pick your family.

30岁不是一个新的20岁，所以认清你的成年期，获得一些身份资本，利用你并不那么直接的人际关系，选择你的家人。

That was when I realized that this sort of benign neglect was a real problem, and it had real consequences, not just for Alex and her love life, but for the careers and the families and the futures of twentysomethings everywhere.

那一刻我意识到这种善意的忽视是一个严重的问题，而且是有后果，不仅对Alex和她的感情生活，而是对所有处于20多岁的人的事业、家庭和未来。