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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沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Children use all their wiles to get their way with adults. Adults do the same with children.
孩子们使出浑身解数来讨好大人。成年人对孩子也是如此。
The adult May fly lives only a few hours, just long enough to mate. He has neither mouth nor stomach, but needs neither since he does not live long enough to need to eat.
成虫可能只活几个小时，刚好够交配。他既没有嘴也没有胃，但既不需要吃东西，因为他活得不够长，不需要吃东西。
As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.
任何一个成年人，只要他认为自己像过去的父母和老师一样，可以变得内省，唤起自己的青春去理解他面前的青春，他就迷失了。
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
为什么社会只对儿童的教育负责，而不对所有年龄层的成年人的教育负责?
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。
As adults feign disinterest in science - children can grab hold of it to distinguish themselves.
当成年人假装对科学不感兴趣时，孩子们可以抓住它来区分自己。