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n.成人,成年人 adj.成人的,成熟的

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adult为小学词汇   词频:4182

词形变化:

名词:adulthood

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al=to nourish(滋养) 变化型 ol,ul

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adult


/'ædʌlt, also ə'dʌlt; `ædʌlt, ə`dʌlt/
adj
1 (a) grown to full size or strength 发育成熟的
*adult monkeys 发育成熟的猴子.
(b) intellectually and emotionally mature 智力及情感上已成熟的
*His behaviour is not particularly adult. 他的举止行为还不太成熟.
2 (law 律) old enough to vote, marry, etc 已成人的(已达投票, 结婚等年龄的).

n adult person or animal 成年的人或动物
*These films are suitable for adults only. 这些电影只适宜成人观看.
* The bear was a fully grown adult. 那支熊已完全发育成熟.
* [attrib 作定语] adult education, ie for those over the usual school age 成人教育(为超过学龄的人而设).
1. * chemists to develop insecticides to kill the adult mosquito and its young, and researchers to develop drugs to treat malaria sufferers;
    * 化学家开发杀虫剂来消灭蚊子的成虫和幼虫,研究人员开发药品来治疗疟疾患者;

2. Whether you're a junior school student or a young adult at college, get caught cheating and you'll pay the price — usually a very high one.
    不管你是初中生还是年轻的大学生,一旦被发现有作弊行为,你就得付出代价--而且往往是惨痛的代价。

3. Word last week that a scientist named Ian Wilmut had succeeded in cloning an adult mammal — an achievement long thought impossible — caught the imagination of everyone.
    上周有消息说,一位名叫伊恩·威尔莫特的科学家已经成功地克隆了一只成年哺乳动物,而这项成就长期以来被认为是不可能的。

4. We can now not only choose our marriage partner, we also can divorce that partner at will, subject children to our own adult worship of happiness, and deny the other parent any regular contact with their children.
    现在我们不仅可以选择配偶,也可以任意与其离婚,将我们成人对幸福的崇拜置于孩子的利益之上,也可以阻止另一方与孩子有任何经常性的来往。

5. Then the child has, as it were, private lessons all the year round, while an adult language-student has each week a limited number of hours which he generally shares with others.
    此外,我们可以说孩子一年到头都有私人教师给他上课,而成年的语言学习者每周只有有限的几小时,而且通常都是与他人一起分享上课时间。

6. They make it simple and explain the risk of catching AIDS to friends their own age much better than an adult can.
    这些青少年使这门课程变得简单易学,并向他们的同龄朋友解释感染艾滋病的危险性,他们干得比成年人出色得多。

7. The cloned lamb, named Dolly, has the exact same genes as the adult sheep from which she was cloned.
    克隆出的羊羔名为多莉,她具有和其被克隆的成年绵羊完全一样的基因。

8. Then he went ahead to clone an adult sheep.
    后来他又进一步克隆了一只成年绵羊。

9. Through having the chance to talk with adults, children pick up not only language skills but also adult habits and styles of thought.
    通过与成年人的交流,孩子学会的不仅是语言技巧,而且还有成年人的习惯与思维方式。

10. He implanted 29 of those into female sheep. Only one adult gave birth to a lamb.
    他将其中29个植入母羊体内,只有一只成年羊分娩了羊羔。

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