Some children find it difficult to talk to adults.
一些孩子觉得与大人很难谈得来。
2ADULTa fully-grown animal 成年动物
The adults have white bodies and grey backs.
这些成年动物的身体为白色,背部为灰色。
Examples from the Corpus
adult• Ann became a Catholic as an adult and entered the book trade working at a Catholic bookshop in Exeter.• Prosecutors are seeking to have the 15-year-old defendant tried as an adult.• But when I became an adult, I began to see the importance of those abstractprinciples in a personal way.• Children cannot be admitted to the museum unless they are accompanied by an adult.• Children related to him so much because they saw in him an adult who behaved in the way that they did.• Being responsible for my sons turned me into an adult as had nothing else in the forty years before.• Since I left school, my parents have started to treat me like an adult.• An adult has a vastarray of comparatively complexschemata that permit a great number of differentiations.• The cost of the trip is $59 for adults and $30 for children.• Choice, in almost all its facets, is diminished in the life of an illiterateadult.• The adultreplies: Oh, come on.
adult2 ●●●W3AWLadjectiveadj
1[only before noun]ADULT fully grown or developed 发育成熟的,成年的
3SEX/HAVE SEX WITH[only before noun] adult films, magazines etc are about sex or related to sex 〔电影、杂志等〕仅限于成人的〔因涉及性〕
The film is rated R for language and adult themes.
这部影片因为语言和成人题材被定为限制级。
Examples from the Corpus
adult• The disease can be very serious in adult animals.• Soon the skin of the pupasplits open, and the fully-formed adultbutterflyemerges.• Some former course members have since obtained fulltime teachingposts in adulteducation.• The government has announced plans to increase spending on adult education.• Ten adultelephants - each with a number painted on it - were successfully moved and released in this fashion.• R: Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adultguardian.• In his adult life all these painfulthoughts had been buried but still caused a great deal of unhappiness.• Adult magazines in shops must be kept where children cannot see them.• It was thought that the skull was too small and light to belong to an adultmale.• Over 30% of the adultpopulation were illiterate.• Forman gives us a version of Flynt as an impish, natural man, the Bart Simpson of the adultpublishing world.• The book is intended for adultreaders.• But escalation is not usually associated with adultsexuality.• From what I saw, the repression all seemed to originate externally, from parents and the rest of adultsociety.• You need to deal with your problems in an adult way.• They attempt to adoptadultword forms and use them with increasing consistency from one occasion to the next.