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。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Every time an adult is going to write something for a teenager and you don't have, physically, a person who is that, you are always going to be a little off. Every time an adult is going to write something for a teenager and you don't have, physically, a person who is that, you are always going to be a little off.
每次要写一个成年人的少年,你没有的东西,身体上,一个人,你总是会有点。每次一个成年人要写少年,你没有的东西,身体上,一个人,你总是会有点。
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。
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?
What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights.
自由主义者所主张的只是，正常成年人之间的差异并不意味着不同的基本权利。
I have known lots of adults who enjoyed similar enthusiasms as a kid and weren't encouraged and then didn't go anywhere with it and so they're unhappy in their jobs as adults.
我认识很多成年人，他们小时候也有类似的热情，但没有得到鼓励，也没有去任何地方，所以他们成年后对自己的工作不满意。
I want to point out to adults that there is a world of good material available to you now in comic form - in this medium - and learn to give it your support because the more you support it, the better the material will be as it comes out.
我想向成年人指出的是，现在在这个媒介中，有很多好的材料以漫画的形式提供给你们，并且学会给予你们的支持，因为你们支持的越多，这些材料出来的时候就会越好。