adult
美 [ˈædʌlt] 
英 [ˈædʌlt]
- n.成人；长成体
- adj.成年的；成熟的；理智的；成人的
- 网络成年人；大人；成虫
词形变化
复数：adults 反义词
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英汉双解
1. | （法律上指能为自己的行为负责的）成年人a fully grown person who is legally responsible for their actions |
| Children must be accompanied by an adult. 儿童必须要有大人陪同。 |
| Why can't you two act like civilized adults? 你们俩为什么就不能像有教养的成年人那样行事呢？ |
| The fish return to the river as adults in order to breed. 这种鱼长成以后回到河中产卵。 |
1. | 成年的；发育成熟的fully grown or developed |
| preparing young people for adult life 指导年轻人准备过成人生活 |
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2. | （智力、思想、行为）成熟的，成人的behaving in an intelligent and responsible way; typical of what is expected of an adult |
| When my parents split up, it was all very adult and open. 我父母离异时，事情处理得很成熟、很开放。 |
3. | [obn] 仅限成人的（因有色情或暴力内容）intended for adults only, because it is about sex or contains violence |
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例句
(of a bird) having reached full development with fully grown adult plumage; ready to fly.
（指鸟）完全长好了成熟的羽毛；准备飞翔。
Not long ago, my now-adult daughter called from New York to let me know about a medical scare she was facing.
前不久，已经长大成人的女儿从纽约给我打电话，告诉我她正面临的医疗危机。
"Deutsche Bank does not approve of any adult entertainments and such expenditures will not be reimbursed, " the memo said.
该备忘录称：“德意志银行不会批准任何成人娱乐，这类费用不会报销。”
Lately, I've found that this transcendent reading experience I so crave seems to occur more often with young-adult novels.
最近，好像当我在阅读青少年小说时，这种让我入迷的超常的阅读经验发生得更频繁。
Conclusion: CT appearance of the neonatal brain is obviously different from that of the adult.
结论：新生儿颅脑正常CT表现与成人明显不同。
He is a budding young adult, and one of your responsibilities is to prepare him for the adult world.
你的责任之一就是预备他来进入成人的世界。
The decision to try the children in an adult court was heavily criticised by children's campaigners.
在成人法庭定罪孩童，这被一些儿童活动家强烈谴责。
Jean is an intelligent, responsible adult, but she still refuses to believe that smoking had anything to do with her heart attack.
琼是一个有头脑、有责任感的成年人，但她却仍然拒绝相信吸烟与她的心脏病发作有任何关系。
The child prodigy, it was thought, turned out to be a neurotic adult.
大家认为神童到最后长大成人将会是一个有精神疾病的人。
As a teacher, she knew my education would be pivotal for me if I was to have an independent adult life.
作为教师，她知道我的教育关键是促使我成为一个独立的成年人。
He asked me to brainstorm the essay and adult recommendation with him a full two weeks before the application was due.
在申请截止前的两个星期，他就请我同他一块探讨如何准备个人自述和成人推荐信。
(of an insect) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the nymph is essentially like the adult and there is no pupal stage.
（关于昆虫）经历幼虫在本质上类似成虫的不完全蜕变时期的，并且此阶段没有蛹期。
Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
从七八岁时起不再向大人表露真实感情似乎是一种本能。
how much of your adult life are you likely to be single?
你有多少钱过成人生活，你愿意变成单身吗？
A boy raped by an adult man would also be lashed if the court decided that he had "enjoyed" the experience.
一个男孩被成年男子强暴，如果法院认定男孩“享受”这个经验，男孩也将受鞭打。
He argued that soon he would be a man and he should be able to make adult decisions.
他争辩说他不久就要成为男子汉了，并说他应该能够作出成年人的抉择了。
Before she left Guam , she told me that she was so happy for how I turned out as an adult, and that touched me.
在她离开关岛之前，她告诉我她很开心见到我长成人了，那句话非常地感动了我。
It was an hour-and-a-half trip each way, and I was a heavy boy, much heavier than I am as an adult.
单程需要一个半小时，而且我很重，童年的我比成年的我要重得多。
And I overheard an adult saying he could sing better than me but he did not win any prize all because he lost out to my suit!
我还听到有个大人说，他唱得比我好却拿不到奖，全都因为我的西装赢了他！
"I do not know honor is not adult" , which is handed down for thousands of years of well-known Abas .
“不知荣辱乃不能成人”，这是千百年流传下来的珠玑名言。
"More than any other generation, " he said, "our generation views the adult world with great skepticism. "
他说：“我们这一代比任何一代人都抱着更大的疑虑看待成人世界。”
He is an odd boy, so adult, the relatives tell his mother.
亲戚们在背后对妈妈说：这孩子有点怪，太大人腔了。
The boy has reached an adult age and ought to be earning his own living.
这孩子已经（到了）成年，应该自食其力了。
His search took him to the Sterkfontein Cave near Johannesburg in the Transvaal region in 1936, where he found skulls of adult apemen.
1936年，研究工作使他来到特兰斯瓦的约翰内斯堡附近的斯特方丹岩洞，在那里他找到了成年猿人的头骨。
When my parents split up, it was all very adult and open.
我父母离异时，事情处理得很成熟、很开放。
But get real, please, there is so much good fiction out there, written specifically for your adult age group, written with you in mind.
不过，请现实一点，有这么多好的小说，专门为你们这些大人写的、以你们为出发点的小说。
So how much fluid does the average, healthy adult living in a temperate climate need?
那一个生活在温和适宜环境下的健康成年人平均每天需要多少水份呢？
Intelligence officials knew there was an adult male in there, but they couldn't catch a glimpse. He never stepped in to view.
情报官员知道楼里住着一个成年男性，但始终无法见到他的身影，因为他从不露面。
Authentic adult actions are those which help us shift us out of a child state to a more expansive and adult sense of ourselves.
像成人般那样行事就是一种能帮助我们摆脱儿童心理状态并能够让自己更成熟地看待自己的方法。
Instead, it agreed to allow one dog per apartment with adult weights of less than 80 pounds or two dogs weighing up to 30 pounds each.
相反，委员会同意每套公寓养一只成年体重在80磅以下的狗，或两只每只体重不超过30磅的狗。
Joe said he only did adult movies, so I said that's kind of sleazy.
乔说他只拍成人电影，但我认为那太过低级。
David Howard, an RJR spokesman, said the company decided to 'make them available to adult tobacco consumers' in new test markets.
雷诺的发言人大卫·霍华德表示，该公司决定，在新的试销市场上“只有成人烟草消费者才能买到”。
It will threaten for the children If adult can't unwind question of himself, This thing is happening everyday from everybody, besides me.
如果大人的心结未解，对孩子来说是一场灾难，这种事情每天都在上演，我也不例外。
As a comparison, many adult sexual networks are more like an airline hub system where many points are connected to a small number of hubs.
相比之下，很多成年人的性爱网络就像是一个航空枢纽系统，很多个点连接到为数不多的几个枢纽上。
My friends compare me to the Tom Hanks character in the movie "Big, " about the young boy who wakes up in an adult body.
朋友把我和汤姆汉克斯在电影《飞越未来》里的角色相比，电影里一个小男孩盼望自己快成大人，结果一觉醒来居然成真了。
How can I expect them to treat me like an adult if I sneak around and act like a kid?
像这样鬼鬼祟祟做事，像个长不大的孩子，我还怎么能期望他们把我当成人看待呢？
It was clearly the carcass of an adult male, but no one had been able to identify what manner of insect it once was.
牠分明是一只成年雄性的尸体，但是没有人看得出牠是何方神圣。
Almost all adult females breed, so a mother will get at least some of her genes into the next generation by producing them.
因为几乎所有的成年雌性都会繁育，所以，如果母亲生育雌性，那么她至少能够将它的基因在下一代中保留一些。
As the child delights in his mud pie, so the adult enjoys building things, especially things of his own design.
如同小孩在玩泥巴时感到愉快一样，成年人喜欢创建事物，特别是自己进行设计。
In a few years, they're going to be out on their own and their need to be independent or at least treated as an adult are paramount.
再过几年，他们会走出家门，所以他们需要独立，或至少把他们作为成熟的人对待，这至关重要。
Now is the time to let go of the childish voices and allow yourself to be known for the greatness you possess as an adult.
现在是时候抛弃幼稚的心声，让你为自己作为一个成年人而感到骄傲。
If that person is a citizen, the documents shall, in case of his absence, be receipted by an adult member of his family living with him.
受送达人是公民的，本人不在交他的同住成年家属签收；
The local media said the driver was the only adult on board but this has not been confirmed.
当地媒体说，司机是车上唯一的成人，但此说法还未得到确认。
She said: "There was no way I could marry an adult film star. "
她说：“我实在没办法说服自己去嫁给一个成人电影明星。”
Even though I was only a kid, he treated me as if I were an adult.
尽管我只是一个孩子，他对待我，如果我是一个成年人。
