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成年
Adulthood
Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.
成年期是童年和老年之间不断缩小的时期。现代工业社会的明显目标是把这段时期减少到最低限度。
The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.
我觉得，儿童和成人之间的区别，尽管在某些方面可能有用，但本质上是似是而非的。世界上只有为爱疯狂的个人自我。
I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.
我必须对“单纯的孩子”一词提出异议，因为我的一贯经验是，与单纯的孩子作伴比与单纯的成年人作伴好得多。
It changed me more than anything else. You don't want to get to that place where you're the adult and you're palpably in the next generation. And, this shoved me into that.
它最能改变我。你不会想要达到那种你已经是成年人，而且明显是在下一代的状态。这让我陷入了困境。
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。
Part of my plan has been to try to pleasantly remind adults of what they once were themselves, and of how they felt and thought and talked, and what queer enterprises they sometimes engaged in
我计划的一部分是试着愉快地提醒成年人他们曾经是什么样子，他们的感受、想法和谈话，以及他们有时从事的那些奇怪的事业
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。
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。
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。
Affection between adults - if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children - and creatures so relatively selfish and cruel as children necessarily are without knowing it or meaning it, cannot be called natural
成年人之间的感情——如果他们在思想上是真正的成年人，而不仅仅是已经长大成人的孩子——和孩子们之间的感情是如此自私和残忍，孩子们必然不知道或没有意识到这一点，那么这种感情就不能被称为自然的
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in
如果一个孩子想要保持他与生俱来的好奇心，而没有仙女的礼物，他至少需要一个成年人的陪伴，和他一起重新发现我们生活的世界的快乐、兴奋和神秘
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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。
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”。
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
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。
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。
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。