A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
成人
Adult
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 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。
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
幸福是一种想象的状态，从前常由生者归于死者，现在常由成人归于儿童，儿童归于成人。
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。
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。
But this is a little different. This is the adult acting. This is a different crowd. It's more work and more good work. That's it. People will have their opinion regardless.
但这有点不同。这是成人的表演。这是一个不同的群体。这是越来越多的工作，越来越好的工作。就是这样。无论如何，人们都会有自己的观点。
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。
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。
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。
As a children's author, reviewers are generally very nice to you. I only ever wrote one adult book and received such a kicking for it that I was in trauma for the next six months.
作为一名儿童作家，评论家通常对你很好。我只写过一本成人书，却因此受到如此强烈的抨击，以至于在接下来的六个月里，我一直处于精神创伤之中。
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。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。