A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
成人
Adult
I think I am an adult.
我想我是一个成年人。
Novels are make-believe and play for adults.
小说是虚构的，是成年人的游戏。
But I don't think I've grown up to be a damaged adult.
但我不认为我已经成长为一个受损的成年人。
A good book written for children can be read by adults.
为孩子们写的好书可以被成年人阅读。
A child speaks more sense than an adult half of the time.
有一半的时间，孩子比成年人讲得更有道理。
Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master.
鞋子是我们掌握的第一个成人机器。
You should be able to do anything you can afford as an adult.
作为一个成年人，你应该能够做任何你能负担得起的事情。
What consenting adults do behind closed doors is not my business.
自愿的成年人关起门来干什么不关我的事。
I know a number of autistic adults that are doing extremely well on Prozac.
我知道一些患有自闭症的成年人服用百忧解效果非常好。
I have been very lucky for most of my adult life to be working as an actor.
在我成年后的大部分时间里，我都非常幸运地成为了一名演员。
Filming is a very adult world, and you need to be with people your own age.
拍摄是一个非常成熟的世界，你需要和和你同龄的人在一起。
I wasn't frightened of people, but I didn't have a clue about the adult world.
我不害怕别人，但我对成人世界一无所知。
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As it turns out, as an adult I can have a very unpleasant, fierce and unforgiving temper at times. But I don't think I had that when I was a kid.
事实证明，作为一个成年人，我有时会有一种非常不愉快、凶猛和无情的脾气。但我想我小时候没有。
I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults.
我真的很想做一些反映我作为一个成年人和音乐，我认为是为其他成年人。
I like stirring things up. I'm on the side of the kids more than I am on the adults. And occasionally I find some adults that have that same mischievous streak, so I don't get in too much trouble.
我喜欢捣乱。我比成年人更支持孩子们。偶尔我发现一些成年人也有同样的淘气倾向，所以我不会惹太多麻烦。
One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.
一个人可以爱一个孩子，也许爱得比爱另一个成年人更深，但如果认为孩子也能感受到爱的回报，那就太草率了。
Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
我们当中有谁在后代降临之前就已经足够成熟到可以繁衍后代了?婚姻的价值不在于成人生孩子，而在于孩子生成人。
I never was really into comics as a child, and I think if you miss the boat when you're a kid, you don't necessarily pick up on it when you're an adult.
当我还是个孩子的时候，我从来没有真正喜欢过漫画，我认为如果你错过了你小时候的机会，当你是一个成年人的时候，你不一定能赶上它。