A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
成年
Adulthood
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。
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。
Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards
从七、八岁开始，不把自己的真实感受告诉成年人似乎是一种本能
Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age
学习是童年的祸根，青春的油，成年的放纵，老年的养生之道
Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas
成年人总是问小孩子长大后想做什么，因为他们在寻找想法
You think that adulthood will hit and you'll suddenly be more capable. But that doesn't happen, ever, does it?
你认为成年后你会突然变得更有能力。但这从来不会发生，不是吗?
Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.
因为人们会活得更久，也会变老，所以他们只需要学习如何长时间成为婴儿。
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
儿童灿烂的智力与一般成年人的弱智形成了多么令人痛心的对比啊!
We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until... we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say "I lost it."
直到……我们才跨过了童年和成年之间的那条微妙的界线。我们不再说“它丢了”，而是说“我丢了”。
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。
If this was adulthood, the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that now she could eat dessert without eating her vegetables.
如果这是成年期，她能发现的唯一改善是，现在她可以吃甜点而不吃蔬菜了。
I was a young person once, shortly after the polar ice caps retreated, and I distinctly recall believing that virtually all adults were clueless goobers.
我曾经是一个年轻人，在极地冰冠消退后不久，我清楚地记得我相信几乎所有的成年人都是愚蠢的傻瓜。
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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 childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.
当童年死亡时，它的尸体被称为成年人，他们进入社会，地狱的政治名称之一。这就是为什么我们害怕孩子，即使我们爱他们，他们也会让我们看到我们衰败的状态。
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。
To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and heart of the child.
说实话，很少有成年人能看到大自然。大多数人看不到太阳。至少他们的视觉很肤浅。太阳只照亮男人的眼睛，却照亮了孩子的眼睛和心灵。
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。
There's childhood and early onset bipolar, but it transitions in your early adulthood into something a little bit different, and extremely severe. It was at that time that my impulse control just went out the window. Impulse control when you're manic just disappears.
有儿童期和早期发作的双相情感障碍，但它会在你成年早期转变成一些不同的，非常严重的东西。就在那个时候，我的冲动控制完全失控了。当你狂躁时，冲动控制就消失了。