首页英语词典adultadult的意思

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近义词of age mature grown-up full-grown

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adj. 成年的；成熟的
n. 成年人

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【谐音】儿大了的——儿子变成成年人了

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adult 成年人

前缀ad-, 去，往。词根ol, 成长. -t,过去分词后缀。

英英释意

1. a fully developed person from maturity onward

2. any mature animal

英文词源

adult (adj.): 1530s (but not common until mid-17c.), from Latin adultus "grown up, mature, adult, ripe," past participle of adolescere "grow up, mature" (see adolescent). As a euphemism for "pornographic," it dates to 1958 and does no honor to the word.
adult (n.): "adult person," 1650s, from adult (adj.).

同义词辨析

adult, grown-up, mature

这些形容词均有"成年的，成熟的"之意。

adult：一般指生理上的童年期已结束，达到法定年龄。

grown-up：多用于口语，含义与adult基本相同，但更侧重脱离儿童阶段，已成大人，与childish意思相反。

mature：用于生物时，指完全长好了。用于人时，指达到了生命的黄金时期，但所暗示的青少年和成年之间的界限不明显。

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She studied the smoking patterns of adult smokers.

By studying about 700 adult smokers, she found out that her mom quit the right way—by stopping abruptly and completely.

[The most recent of these studies, published in The Journal of Applied Gerontology, surveyed 150 Connecticut residents of assisted living, nursing homes and smaller residential care homes ( ' , known in some states as board and care homes or adult care homes).

Whether you can successfully change your personality as an adult is the subject of a longstanding psychological debate.

The study, which followed more than 2,000 healthy adults between the ages of 18 and 60, found that certain mental functions—including measures of abstract reasoning, mental speed and puzzle-solving—started to dull as early as age 27.

The study included healthy, educated adults who took standard tests of memory, reasoning and perception at the outset and at some point over the next seven years.

The results do not mean that young adults need to start worrying about their memories.

Patterns of childhood eating can be hard to break when we're adults, which may mean that kids of depressed moms end up dying younger.

Older adults, especially those with limited mobility or difficulty driving on their own, are one of the classic use-cases for driverless cars.

And that the characteristics adult children look for when they begin the search are not necessarily the things that make a difference to the people who are going to move in.

We are at a point where in much of the developed world the vast majority of young people grew up playing video games, and an increasingly high percentage of adults play these video games too, Werbach says.

They found that the majority of both kids and adults opted for a half-sized portion when combined with a prize.

Neither children nor adults could resist the temptation of a free toy.

Most kids and adults would choose a smaller meal that came with a non-food item.

Most kids and adults don't actually feel hungry when they eat half of their meal.

Even more interesting is that the promise of a future reward was enough to make adults choose the smaller portion.

Eating a smaller portion of food does good to the health of kids and adults alike.

Both kids and adults felt satisfied with only half of their meal portions.

Adults chose the smaller portion on the mere promise of a future award.

Yet moments like this one are just the kind of intense absorption and pleasure adults spend the rest of their lives seeking.

What distinguishes children from adults is their strong ability to derive joy from what they are doing.

The thing that sets children apart from adults is not their ignorance, nor their lack of skills.

Adults tend to talk about learning as if it were medicine: unpleasant, but necessary and good for you.

Adults do not consider children's feelings when it comes to education.

A child's ability to become deeply absorbed in something, and derive intense pleasure from that absorption, is something adults spend the rest of their lives trying to return to.

It is reported that 49 million Americans are unsure of where they will find their next meal What's most surprising is that 36% of them live in households where at least one adult is working.

But by senior year, two-thirds have moved up to physics," says Gilbert "Our kids are coming to school in part because they know there are adults here who know them and care for them.

The more healthy an older adult is, the more they sleep like they did when they were younger.

The popular notion that older people need less sleep than younger adults is a myth, scientists said yesterday.

Our data suggests that older adults would benefit from continuing to get as much sleep as they did in their 30s

The new CNS Spectrums study was based on results of a nationwide telephone survey of more than 2,500 adults.

When people care for an elderly relative, they often do not use available community services such as adult daycare centers.

If the caregivers are adult children, they are more likely to use such services, especially because they often have jobs and other responsibilities

On the other hand, they may want to live with their adult children.

Why are adult children more likely to use community services to help care for elderly parents

Adult day-care centers are easily accessible.

Studies show that for adults there is no danger, but children can develop loss of vision if they have glasses inappropriate for their eyes.

It will gradually weaken the eyes of adults

Economic factors seem to explain less of why young adult women are increasingly likely to live at home.

If not cultivated, it will not survive: "Childhood curiosity is a collaboration between child and adult."

The most recent of these studies, published in The Journal of Applied Gerontology, surveyed 150 Connecticut residents of assisted living, nursing homes and smaller residential care homes known in some states as board and care homes or adult care homes.

While cereal remains a firm favourite among breakfast consumers in the UK and US, a recent investigation into the sugar content of "adult" breakfast cereals found that some cereals contain more than three-quarters of the recommended daily amount of free s

Working-class parents teach their children to be obedient and show respect to adults.

They are taught to be compliant and respectful to adults.

Now, a new study that began with about 1,000 children in New Zealand has tracked how a child’s low self-control can predict poor health, money troubles and even a criminal record in their adult years.

A new study has failed to find any conclusive evidence that lifestyle changes can prevent cognitive decline in older adults.

Stress is also starting earlier in life, with some data suggesting that today's teens are even more stressed than adults.

And in 2010, the researchers reported that children aged 12 to 17 saw more athlete-endorsed food and beverage brand commercials than adults.

To make matters worse, these schools are ill-equipped to graduate these students— young adults who face specific challenges and obstacles.

So what factors, at the community level, do predict if poor children will move up the economic ladder as adults? What explains, for instance, why the Salt Lake City metro area is one of the 100 largest metropolitan areas most likely to lift the fortunes of the poor and the Atlanta metro area is one of the least likely?Harvard economist Raj Chetty has pointed to economic and racial segregation, community density, the size of a community's middle class, the quality of schools, community religiosity, and family structure, which he calls the single strongest correlate of upward mobility.

More than a decade ago, cognitive scientists John Bransford and Daniel Schwartz, both then at Vanderbilt University, found that what distinguished young adults from children was not the ability to retain facts or apply prior knowledge to a new situation but a quality they called preparation for future learning.

For example, the shortage of young adults is likely to make countries more reluctant to commit the few they have to military service.

Countries that have a shortage of young adults will be less willing to commit them to military service

Each group consisted of around 120 adults of similar age and education, and the test assessed their language skills.

MS is the biggest crippler of young adults.

It is the biggest crippler of young adults

Then Michael, the eldest of her four adult children suggested they move in with his family.

The Polytechnic is all adults and mostly preparation for exams like the Cambridge certificates.

"I’ve seen very expensive protein supplements that claim to be high quality but they might not really be beneficial for the average healthy adult," she says.

At around age 60, "muscles really start to break down," says Kathryn Starr, an aging researcher, "and because of that, the protein needs of an older adult actually increase.

Experts believe there is a relationship between adult abuse of legitimate medicines and the drug culture that has swept our country.

government's recommended daily allowanceRD for the average adult is 50 to 60 gram of protein a day.

It's just that suddenly at university you are expected to behave like an adult.

Now, a new study that began with about 1,000 children in New Zealand has tracked how a child's low self-control can predict poor health, money troubles and even a criminal record in their adult years.

She may have observed the adult moth just as it emerged from its pupa.

Such wariness is well founded: statistics show, for example, that a teenage driver with a same-age passenger in the car is at higher risk of a fatal crash than an adolescent driving alone or with an adult.

Terrie Moffitt's paper on "The link Between Childhood Self-control and Adult Status Decades Later" is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The adult observers were able to reliably discern an assortment of emotions on the babies faces.

Adults understand what it feels like to be flooded with objects.

Any child must be accompanied by at least one paying adult.

Babies need a lot of rest: most of them sleep about 18 hours a day! adults need about eight hours.

But it can be taught to children and developed in adults.

Changing levels of body chemicals called hormones not only make teenagers' bodies develop adult characteristics, but also make it hard for teenagers to fall asleep before 11 pm.

Competent adults know more about love than work.

Confidence grows more rapidly in adults.

During those six months of hospitalizations, Becky, 12 at the time, adjusted to other adults being in the house when she returned from school.

Emotional health is essential to a wonderful adult life.

Having your grandchildren far away is hard, especially knowing your adult child is struggling, but giving up the life you know may be harder.

He finds that if babies aged 18 months see an unrelated adult with hands full trying to open a door, almost all will immediately try to help.

However, greater parental involvement does not necessarily indicate that parents are failing to let go of their "adult" children.

However, now they are becoming an extended period of adolescence, during which many of today's students and are not shouldered with adult responsibilities.

Instead of promoting the idea of college as a passage from the shelter of the family to autonomy and adult responsibility, universities have given in to the idea that they should provide the same environment as that of the home.

Jenny Mosley's quality circle time model involves setting up an on-going, timetable process of circle-meeting for adults and children.

Know how to offer help to adults.

Learn how to deal with people now, because when you're an adult, you don't get to choose your boss or your co-workers, so learn how to respect them now.

Maxime's early entry into the adult world with its responsibilities gave her the determination to ensure that her kids would not end up in Waterhouse's roundabout of poverty.

Moreover, the tendency for universities to monitor and shape student behavior runs up against another characteristic of young adults: the response to being controlled by their elders.

Most of his adult life has been a losing struggle against debt and misfortune.

Most of us observed much more as children than we do as adults.

Perhaps evolution provided human babies with curiosity and a natural drive to explain their worlds, and adult scientists simply make use of the same drive that served them as children.

The annual death rate for adult condors has dropped from 38% in 2000 to 5%.

The changes of adult children's behavior.

The college years are supposed to be a time for important growth in autonomy and the development of adult identity.

The link between what the men had done as boys and how they turned out as adults was surprisingly sharp.

The most competent adults are those who know how to do this.

The same cognitive systems that make young children feel good about feel good about figuring something out may have been adopted by adult scientists.

The same is true of the young adults going to college.

These activities are regulated by flexible rules adapted from standardized sport rules and are set up by the children or by an involved adult.

These advertise the presence of chicks to adults; they might also encourage our chick to start calling as well.

Third, youth-sport programs are critical for the learning of motor skills, these motor skills serve as a foundation for future national sport stars and recreational adult-sport participants.

To sum up, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit is an amazing film which is suitable for both children and adults.

Trust adults with their hands full.

While it is easy to ignore in our contact with them the effect of our acts upon their disposition, it is not so easy as in dealing with adults.

These groups mainly rely for instilling needed dispositions into the young upon the same sort of association which keeps the adults loyal to their group.

It’s hard to imagine that many people are dumb enough to want children just because Reese and Angelina make it look so glamorous: most adults understand that a baby is not a haircut.

An adult with a Bmi of 18 to 25 is often considered to be normal weight.

Pretty in pink: adult women do not remember being so obsessed with the colour, yet it is pervasive in our young girls' lives.

sixty toddlers were each introduced to an adult tester holding a plastic container.

They housed eight adult rats with two types of robotic rat- one social and one asocial - for 5 our days.

实用场景例句

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。

preparing young people for adult life: 指导年轻人做好进入成年期的准备

the adult population: 成年人口

adult monkeys: 长成的猴子

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。

an adult movie: 仅供成人观看的电影

...a pair of adult birds.: 一对成年鸟

I've lived most of my adult life in London.: 我成年之后的大部分时间都是在伦敦度过的。

We were very adult about it. We discussed it rationally over a drink.: 在这件事上我们表现得很成熟。我们一边喝酒一边心平气和地谈了谈。

...dealing with emerging sexuality in an adult way.: 平静对待出现的性征

...an adult movie.: 成人电影

Becoming a father signified that he was now an adult...: 当了父亲意味着他已是个成年人了。

Children under 14 must be accompanied by an adult.: 14岁以下的儿童必须由成人陪同。

The activity is not destroyed by either physical changes of state or chemical transformations.: 这些活性不会因为物理状态和化学成分的改变而受到破坏.

Children unaccompanied by an adult will not be admitted.: 儿童无成年人陪伴着不准入场.

The bear was a fully grown adult.: 那只熊已完全发育成熟.

He has a very adult manner although he's only 12.: 虽然他只有十二岁，他举止却很像大人。

Empathy for the criminal's childhood misery does not imply exoneration of the crimes he committed as an adult.: 对罪犯悲惨的童年表示怜悯不等于可以免除他长大成人后所犯的罪.

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.

Anyone over eighteen years of age counts as adult.: 凡是超过18岁的都算成年人.

Johnny cries whenever he must say hello to an adult; he is afraid of his own shadow.: 约翰尼在跟大人打招呼时就哭, 他胆小极了.

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