adult

英[ˈædʌlt]美[əˈdʌlt]

n.成年人，成年动物；

adj.成年的，成熟的，（因涉及色情或暴力）仅限于成人的；

复数：adults;

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

an approach especially suited to the adult learner特别适合成年学习者的方法

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。

She has diminutive hands for an adult.作为一个成年人,她的手显得非常小。

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

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

We should do our best to develop the adult education.我们应当努力发展成人教育。

He is adult in behaviour.从行为上看, 他已成熟了。

For most of his adult life, Turner has been stuck in a coach's Catch - 22.因为特纳的大部分成年生活, 是被卡在了教练的第22条*规上.

The team injected a cocktail of three viruses into the pancreases of adult mice.该研究小组把三种病*的混合剂注入成年鼠的胰腺内.

英语六级真题

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.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

N-COUNT

（法律意义上的）成年人

An adult is a mature, fully developed person. An adult has reached the age when they are legally responsible for their actions.

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成年动物

An adult is a fully developed animal.

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ADJ

成年的；属于成人的

Adult means relating to the time when you are an adult, or typical of adult people.

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ADJ-GRADED

成熟的；老成的

If you say that someone is adult about something, you think that they act in a mature, intelligent way, especially when faced with a difficult situation.

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ADJ

（涉及性内容的电影或书籍）仅限于成人的

You can describe things such as films or books as adult when they deal with sex in a very clear and open way.

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英汉词典释义

adj.

成熟的; （智力、思想、行为）成熟的，成人的

成年人的, 适宜于成年人的, 仅限成人的（因有色情或暴力内容）

成年的；发育成熟的

n.

成年的人或动物

英英词典释义

Noun

1. a fully developed person from maturity onward

2. any mature animal

Adjective

1. (of animals) fully developed;

行业词典

动物学： 成体；

医学： 成年的，已成人的，已成熟的；成体，成虫；

昆虫学： 成虫；成螨；成蜱；成蟲；成蟎；

法律： 成年人；