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 adulthood [ə'dʌlthʊd]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 成年

[医] 成人期


  1. They are on the threshold of adulthood.
    他们即将进入成年期。
  2. Responsibility is a major lesson of adulthood.
    承担责任是每个成年人的一门主修课。
  3. The rite is more than a transition into adulthood.
    这个仪式不仅仅象征着变成成年人。


adulthood
[ noun ]
  1. the period of time in your life after your physical growth has stopped and you are fully developed

  2. <noun.time>
  3. the state (and responsibilities) of a person who has attained maturity

  4. <noun.state>


  1. 'He likes to be around a Gateway of just 200 people again.' Founded a year before Gateway, Dell, which plunged into loss for the first time in 1993, is further down the road to adulthood - and struggling.
  2. Nevertheless, they said, the findings "are the first evidence that treatment of obesity in childhood can produce effects that persist into young adulthood." Even a clockmaker can't be expected to be on time all the time.
  3. They guest-acted for a December week on Broadway in A.R. Gurney's "Love Letters," a play about the friendship and romance of a couple from childhood to adulthood, all told through letters and other correspondence.
  4. Medical testimony during a two-day hearing before O'Neill indicated the boy would lose movement in his legs and be wheelchair-bound by adulthood without the surgery.
  5. But she acknowledges that the first generation of children adopted under the open system hasn't reached adulthood, when their experience could be evaluated and compared with people adopted under the traditional system.
  6. But sperm ich only a risk rather than a certainty can be predicted, diseases that appear only after decades of normal life, and childhood diseases with which people can live into early adulthood, she said.
  7. The afflicted can live into adulthood, but are more susceptible to infections because of the open wound and hole in their spine.
  8. Others anxious for adulthood struggle to prove that five birthdays makes them old enough to vote and drive a car.
  9. In 1971, Dr. Paul Wender of the University of Utah, a pioneer in the field, recognized that it sometimes persisted into adulthood. Since then, researchers have found increasing numbers of adults still suffering from the syndrome.
  10. He faced an adulthood of misery and crime.
  11. A generation of Palestinians has been born and grown to adulthood since 1967, resentful of occupation and less intimidated by the might of the Israeli military.
  12. Who knew what the future and adulthood held?
  13. About half the time, the disorder persists into adulthood, and victims are more likely to have run-ins with the law and abuse drugs and alcohol.
  14. The disorder was once fatal in childhood but modern treatment permits many afflicted children to live into adulthood.
  15. The children of that prosperity are only now, in adulthood, struggling with the restrictions that a big generation and a competitive economy imposes.
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