adult
英式音标：adult怎么读
美式音标：adult怎么读
词汇归类： CET4,TEM4,IELTS,考研,CET6,中高频词,核心词汇
近义词： of,age,developed,mature,grown-up,full-grown
反义词： puerile,immature,juvenile,adolescent,childish
adult词义
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adj. 成年的；成熟的n. 成年人
词态变化
复数: adults;
中文词源
adult 成年人
前缀ad-, 去，往。词根ol, 成长. -t,过去分词后缀。
adult双语例句
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- 1. I tried to understand the adult world and could not.
- 我试着去了解成人世界，却无法猜透。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. Which adult in these children's lives will provide the nurturing they need?
- 这些孩子生活中的哪个成人会为他们提供所需的养育呢？
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. His adult life mirrored the downward course of his father's life.
- 他成年后的生活反映出了他父亲的生活在走下坡路。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. As an adult, you can assess the situation realistically.
- 作为一个成年人，你能现实地评估局势。
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. The average adult man burns 1,500 to 2,000 calories per day.
- 普通成年男子每天消耗的热量为1,500到2,000卡路里。
来自柯林斯例句
adult英文词源
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- 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.).
adult实用场景例句
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- Children must be accompanied by an adult.
- 儿童必须要有大人陪同。
牛津词典
- 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？
牛津词典
- 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。
牛津词典
- preparing young people for adult life
- 指导年轻人做好进入成年期的准备
牛津词典
- the adult population
- 成年人口
牛津词典
- adult monkeys
- 长成的猴子
牛津词典
- 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。
牛津词典
- an adult movie
- 仅供成人观看的电影
牛津词典
- ...a pair of adult birds.
- 一对成年鸟
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- 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。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- 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。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- ...dealing with emerging sexuality in an adult way.
- 平静对待出现的性征
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- ...an adult movie.
- 成人电影
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- 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。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Children under 14 must be accompanied by an adult.
- 14岁以下的儿童必须由成人陪同。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- 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.
期刊摘选
- Children unaccompanied by an adult will not be admitted.
- 儿童无成年人陪伴着不准入场.
《简明英汉词典》
- The bear was a fully grown adult.
- 那只熊已完全发育成熟.
《简明英汉词典》
- 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。
《现代英汉综合大词典》
- 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.
《简明英汉词典》
- 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.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- Anyone over eighteen years of age counts as adult.
- 凡是超过18岁的都算成年人.
《简明英汉词典》
- 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.
《简明英汉词典》