adult

(of a bird) having reached full development with fully grown adult plumage; ready to fly.

（指鸟）完全长好了成熟的羽毛；准备飞翔。

Not long ago, my now-adult daughter called from New York to let me know about a medical scare she was facing.

前不久，已经长大成人的女儿从纽约给我打电话，告诉我她正面临的医疗危机。

"Deutsche Bank does not approve of any adult entertainments and such expenditures will not be reimbursed, " the memo said.

该备忘录称：“德意志银行不会批准任何成人娱乐，这类费用不会报销。”

Lately, I've found that this transcendent reading experience I so crave seems to occur more often with young-adult novels.

最近，好像当我在阅读青少年小说时，这种让我入迷的超常的阅读经验发生得更频繁。

Conclusion: CT appearance of the neonatal brain is obviously different from that of the adult.

结论：新生儿颅脑正常CT表现与成人明显不同。

He is a budding young adult, and one of your responsibilities is to prepare him for the adult world.

你的责任之一就是预备他来进入成人的世界。

The decision to try the children in an adult court was heavily criticised by children's campaigners.

在成人法庭定罪孩童，这被一些儿童活动家强烈谴责。

Jean is an intelligent, responsible adult, but she still refuses to believe that smoking had anything to do with her heart attack.

琼是一个有头脑、有责任感的成年人，但她却仍然拒绝相信吸烟与她的心脏病发作有任何关系。

The child prodigy, it was thought, turned out to be a neurotic adult.

大家认为神童到最后长大成人将会是一个有精神疾病的人。

As a teacher, she knew my education would be pivotal for me if I was to have an independent adult life.

作为教师，她知道我的教育关键是促使我成为一个独立的成年人。

He asked me to brainstorm the essay and adult recommendation with him a full two weeks before the application was due.

在申请截止前的两个星期，他就请我同他一块探讨如何准备个人自述和成人推荐信。

(of an insect) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the nymph is essentially like the adult and there is no pupal stage.

（关于昆虫）经历幼虫在本质上类似成虫的不完全蜕变时期的，并且此阶段没有蛹期。

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

从七八岁时起不再向大人表露真实感情似乎是一种本能。

how much of your adult life are you likely to be single?

你有多少钱过成人生活，你愿意变成单身吗？

A boy raped by an adult man would also be lashed if the court decided that he had "enjoyed" the experience.

一个男孩被成年男子强暴，如果法院认定男孩“享受”这个经验，男孩也将受鞭打。

He argued that soon he would be a man and he should be able to make adult decisions.

他争辩说他不久就要成为男子汉了，并说他应该能够作出成年人的抉择了。

Before she left Guam , she told me that she was so happy for how I turned out as an adult, and that touched me.

在她离开关岛之前，她告诉我她很开心见到我长成人了，那句话非常地感动了我。

It was an hour-and-a-half trip each way, and I was a heavy boy, much heavier than I am as an adult.

单程需要一个半小时，而且我很重，童年的我比成年的我要重得多。

And I overheard an adult saying he could sing better than me but he did not win any prize all because he lost out to my suit!

我还听到有个大人说，他唱得比我好却拿不到奖，全都因为我的西装赢了他！

"I do not know honor is not adult" , which is handed down for thousands of years of well-known Abas .

“不知荣辱乃不能成人”，这是千百年流传下来的珠玑名言。