A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
成年
Adulthood
Adults are obsolete children.
成年人是过时的孩子。
With adulthood comes responsibility.
随着成年，责任随之而来。
Children aren't dogs; adults aren't gods
孩子不是狗;成年人不是神
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
什么是成年人?一个因年龄而长大的孩子。
Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.
成年人只是过时的孩子，让他们见鬼去吧。
Adulthood can do the most horrific things to the best of people.
成年可以对最优秀的人做出最可怕的事情。
I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults
我完全赞成把桦树拿回来，但只是在双方同意的成年人之间
You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.
如果你只瞄准孩子，你就死定了。无论如何，成年人只是已经长大的孩子。
The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.
生育管理是成年期最重要的职能之一。
Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy.
孩子是无辜的，喜欢正义，而大多数成年人是邪恶的，喜欢仁慈。
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
每当我看到一个成年人骑着自行车，我就不再对人类的未来感到绝望。
The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
明天成人问题的解决在很大程度上取决于我们的孩子今天如何长大。
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I spent my whole childhood wishing I were older and now I'm spending my adulthood wishing I were younger.
我整个童年都希望自己更老，而现在我在成年时希望自己更年轻。
If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.
如果你很年轻，喝很多酒，这会损害你的健康，让你的思维变慢，让你变胖——换句话说，把你变成一个成年人。
I have always thought it would be a blessing if each person could be blind and deaf for a few days during his early adult life. Darkness would make him appreciate sight; silence would teach him the joys of sound.
我一直认为，如果每个人在成年初期都能失明或失聪几天，那将是一件幸事。黑暗会使他珍惜光明;寂静会教会他声音的乐趣。
When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that.
当你长大后，你妈妈说:“穿橡胶鞋，否则你会感冒的。”“当你长大成人后，你会发现你有权利不穿橡胶鞋，看看自己是不是感冒了。”大概是这样的。
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
要让孩子认真对待道德，他们必须在认真对待道德的成年人面前。他们必须亲眼看到成年人认真对待道德。
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
当一个孩子意识到他不仅有权做对，而且有权做错时，他就成了一个成年人。