A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
成人
Adult
I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published.
二十多岁时，我写了八本成人长篇小说。这些都没有发表。
Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.
表演是一种自我表现欲的受虐形式。这不是一个成年人的职业。
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。
I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
我从来没有过青少年时期。我想是因为我比周围的任何人都成熟。
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。
I feel as though I've fooled the world into thinking I'm an adult and now they're letting me procreate.
我觉得好像我愚弄了全世界，让他们以为我是个成年人，现在他们却让我生育。
We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway.
我们希望每个人都像成年人一样，停止玩游戏，意识到这不仅仅是我的方式或高速公路。
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。
We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
我们应该像一个受过教育的成年人读书一样阅读音乐:在安静中，想象声音。
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。
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?
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。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
It wasn't my intention in going after this part but I suppose now I do. The adult roles are a lot meatier - you're not always just the daughter or the girlfriend or whatever.
我本来不想演这个角色，但现在我想演了。成年人的角色要丰富得多——你不总是只扮演女儿或女朋友之类的角色。
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。
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。
The problem is that too many adults think their kids' lives are simple, or they try to make their lives simple, when their emotional lives are just as complicated as ours. They might have a few less tools to deal with it because they're young, but the emotions are all the same, and the subject matter is all the same.
问题是太多的成年人认为他们的孩子的生活很简单，或者他们试图使他们的生活简单，当他们的情感生活和我们一样复杂的时候。他们可能因为年轻而没有那么多的工具来处理这些问题，但是他们的情绪都是一样的，主题也是一样的。
I think my guideline has been to find things that inspire me. And as long as I stick to that, I don't think I'll have any problems crossing over to becoming an adult actress.
我认为我的指导方针是找到能激励我的东西。只要我坚持下去，我想成为一名成年女演员不会有任何问题。