1. SEEN from afar, Europe looks like a "gerontocracy", an American newspaper reported in 1963. 1963年，一家美国报纸称，”在局外人看来，欧洲像是个老龄政体“。
2. It helps, too, that he died young, at 39: as a member of the Cuban gerontocracy he would hardly have become the James Dean of world politics. 他39岁英年早逝的事实也有所帮助：事实上如果作为现在古巴老年政治结构的一份子，他很难成为世界政坛的詹姆斯
3. For the citizens of China, Indonesia, and Russia, which together account for over 1/4 of the world's population, a sickly gerontocracy means perpetual speculation and uncertainty. 对于共占四分之一的世界人口的中国，印尼和俄罗斯人来说，一个病态的老人统治政府意味着无穷的疑虑和不确定性。
