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adult

noun
 OPAL S
/ˈædʌlt/, /əˈdʌlt/
/əˈdʌlt/, /ˈædʌlt/
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  1.  
     a fully grown person who is legally responsible for their actions（法律上指能为自己的行为负责的）成年人 synonym grown-up2
    • Children must be accompanied by an adult.儿童必须要有大人陪同。
    • I simply can't believe that responsible adults allowed a child to wander the streets.我简直不相信任何有责任感的成年人会让一个孩子在街上游荡。
    • Why can't you two act like civilized adults?你们俩为什么就不能像有教养的成年人那样行事呢？
    • The obesity rate among adults has actually increased.成年人的肥胖率实际上有所上升。
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    • The number of single adult households has doubled in the past 30 years.过去 30 年中，单身成年人家庭的数量翻了一番。
    • This book will definitely appeal to teenagers and young adults.这本书肯定会吸引青少年。
    • What consenting adults do in private is their own business.到了法定性成熟年龄的成年人私下里做什么是他们自己的事。
    Topics Life stagesa1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • young
    • single
    • consenting
    • …
    adult + noun
    • education
    • literacy
    • population
    • …
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  2.  
     a fully grown animal成年动物
    • The fish return to the river as adults in order to breed.这种鱼长成以后回到河中产卵。
    3. Word Originmid 16th cent.: from Latin adultus, past participle of adolescere ‘grow to maturity’, from ad- ‘to’ + alescere ‘grow, grow up’, from alere ‘nourish’.

adult

adjective
 OPAL S
/ˈædʌlt/, /əˈdʌlt/
/əˈdʌlt/, /ˈædʌlt/
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  1.  
     fully grown or developed成年的；发育成熟的
    • preparing young people for adult life指导年轻人准备过成人生活
    • He was a healthy young adult male.他是一个健康的年轻成年男性。
    • the adult population成年人口
    • adult monkeys长成的猴子
    • She spent her entire adult life caring for others.她成年后把所有时间都用在照顾他人上了。
  2. behaving in an intelligent and responsible way; typical of what is expected of an adult（智力、思想、行为）成熟的，成人的 synonym grown-up1
    • When my parents split up, it was all very adult and open.我父母离异时，事情处理得很成熟、很开放。
    • Young children become quickly bored by adult conversation.小孩子对大人的谈话很快就会厌倦。
  3. [only before noun] (of a film, magazine, book, etc.) intended for adults only because it is about sex or shows people with no clothes on仅限成人的（因有色情或暴力内容）
    • an adult movie仅供成人观看的电影
    4. see also adulthood
    Word Originmid 16th cent.: from Latin adultus, past participle of adolescere ‘grow to maturity’, from ad- ‘to’ + alescere ‘grow, grow up’, from alere ‘nourish’.

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