Adult
['ædʌlt;ə'dʌlt] or ['ædʌlt]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) any mature animal.
(noun.) a fully developed person from maturity onward.
(adj.) (of animals) fully developed; 'an adult animal'; 'a grown woman' .
編輯:珀西--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Having arrived at maturity, or to full size and strength; matured; as, an adult person or plant; an adult ape; an adult age.
(n.) A person, animal, or plant grown to full size and strength; one who has reached maturity.
整理:雷蒙德
同義詞及近義詞:
a. Mature, grown up, full grown, of age, of mature age.
n. Person of mature age, grown up person.
編輯:米考伯
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Man, woman
ANT:Youth, stripling, boy, child, infant
校對:罗尼
解釋/意思:
adj. grown: mature.—n. a grown-up person.—n. Adult′ness.
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例句/造句/用法:
- The females and young squatted in a thin line at the outer periphery of the circle, while just in front of them ranged the adult males. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Most of the remainder of children's alleged native egoism is simply an egoism which runs counter to an adult's egoism. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Play tends to reproduce and affirm the crudities, as well as the excellencies, of surrounding adult life. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The Old Man is the only fully adult male in the little group. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- From the bottom of her heart, from the bottom of her soul, she despised and detested people, adult people. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- What is to be prepared for is, of course, the responsibilities and privileges of adult life. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- They rest on one side--in the greater number of species on the left, but in some on the right side; and occasionally reversed adult specimens occur. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- The price of passage is fixed at $1,250, currency, for each adult passenger. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The adult frog can live all the rest of its days in the air, but it can be drowned if it is kept steadfastly below water. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Both results may be seen in some types of kindergarten games where the idea of play is so highly symbolic that only the adult is conscious of it. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Ability to share effectively in adult activities thus depends upon a prior training given with this end in view. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- In all cases, the adult environment is accepted as a standard for the child. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The adult might also become fitted for sites or habits, in which organs of locomotion or of the senses, etc. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- So if it were not for adult language, we should not be able to see the import of the babbling impulses of infancy. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- When all the adult males had joined in the thin line of circling dancers the attack commenced. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- An excitement that could no longer affect sane adults was spread among the children in the south of France and in the Rhone Valley. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Adults were also found, even among the nimble-witte d Greeks, to whom abstract reasoning was not altogether congenial. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Savage groups mainly rely for instilling needed dispositions into the young upon the same sort of association which keeps adults loyal to their group. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The adults stood aloft upon their toes and their mighty tails, their talons pruning every available leaf and twig. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- Much of what adults do is so remote in space and in meaning that playful imitation is less and less adequate to reproduce its spirit. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Adults are naturally most conscious of directing the conduct of others when they are immediately aiming so to do. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Adults being the formulators of the symbolism are naturally the authors and controllers of the technique. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Further, the heads of the adults are not so out of proportion to their bodies as in the case of the young. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- The dose is a wineglassful for adults before meals and at bedtime; children, in proportion to age. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- Cases can even be given of the larvae of allied species, or groups of species, differing more from each other than do the adults. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- But as civilization advances, the gap between the capacities of the young and the concerns of adults widens. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Yet in her remoter soul, she knew as well as the adults knew: perhaps better. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- In the adults, as I was to learn quite soon, this color deepens to an olive green and is darker in the male than in the female. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- Even in a savage tribe, the achievements of adults are far beyond what the immature members would be capable of if left to themselves. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
錄入:玛格利特