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 adult [ə'dʌlt]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 成人, 成虫

a. 成年的, 成熟的

[医] 成人, 成年; 成虫


  1. These films are suitable for adults only.
    这些电影只适宜成人观看。
  2. His behavior is not particularly adult.
    他的举止行为还不太成熟。
  3. He spent his adult life in Canada.
    他成年时期是在加拿大度过的.


adult
[ noun ]
  1. a fully developed person from maturity onward

    2. <noun.person>
  2. any mature animal

    3. <noun.animal>
[ adj ]
  1. (of animals) fully developed

    2. <adj.all>
    an adult animal
    a grown woman
  2. designed to arouse lust

    3. <adj.all>
    pornographic films and magazines
    adult movies


Adult \A*dult"\, a. [L. adultus, p. p. of adolescere, akin to
alere to nourish: cf. F. adulte. See {Adolescent}, {Old}.]
Having arrived at maturity, or to full size and strength;
matured; as, an adult person or plant; an adult ape; an adult
age.


Adult \A*dult"\, n.
A person, animal, or plant grown to full size and strength;
one who has reached maturity.

Note: In the common law, the term is applied to a person who
has attained full age or legal majority; in the civil
law, to males after the age of fourteen, and to females
after twelve.

  1. Channel 4's adult American comedy series Dream On (adult by television's standards, anyway) was as funny as usual.
  2. Channel 4's adult American comedy series Dream On (adult by television's standards, anyway) was as funny as usual.
  3. Although the ticks that carry the ailment live on deer in their adult stages, Lyme disease is transmitted by bites from immature ticks, which feed primarily on mice.
  4. He has acknowledged that a sharp reduction in Soviet oil shipments could force Cuba to replace tractors with mules, stop manufacturing adult clothing for five years and reduce bus service in Havana by two-thirds.
  5. Due to the disease's spread in rural areas, WHO said 1 in 40 adult men and women are now believed to be virus carriers compared with 1 in 50 estimated earlier.
  6. He is now an adult in shock, wiser and sadder but no less hilarious.
  7. MCI said that without long-distance carriers' billing and collection services, adult 900 services will have to provide their own billing services through other arrangements, such as third-party billing services.
  8. In other states, only Arizona and Washington have allowed adult children to seek such compensation.
  9. Since 1983, one adult and three children have died within a year of their operations at Pittsburgh hospitals.
  10. By then you can draw your own conclusions from a totally adult play, a tribute I normally reserve for Harley Granville Barker who also performed at the Court. The professor is played by David Suchet, the student by Lia Williams.
  11. An adult who lives across the street from the shooting scene, Jennifer Bradley, said Pannell was shot as he ran down a driveway.
  12. Attorney Gary Poliakoff of Fort Lauderdale contends the act encourages discrimination against the 18- to 55-year-olds who live in adult communities, and probably won't open much existing housing to children.
  13. "Secondly, he is under the age of consent for having sexual relations," Swain said. "Thirdly, she is an adult.
  14. Court officials also used the news conference to indirectly criticize U.S. officials who are calling on West Germany to try Hamadi as an adult.
  15. The adult education skills in the UK are outstanding, and seriously under-used.
  16. Thirty adult visitors also could have come in contact with the sheep.
  17. Cell Technology added 3/8 to 2 5/8 after the Boulder, Colo., drug company said it will receive its first U.S. patent covering the company's anti-cancer drug for adult brain cancer.
  18. Don't answer - they have probably found an unmentionable use for that as well. Is tonight the last pre-Christmas sex (sorry, adult programme) binge?
  19. Campbell said Thursday that state prosecutors so far have failed to prove that a concert by 2 Live Crew was any more obscene than what is seen in nearby adult clubs and bookstores.
  20. The charges seemed characteristic of a city that gained its prim reputation by closing all of its adult bookstores, banning the sale or lease of X-rated videos, and starting one of the first citizens' anti-pornography groups.
  21. These "injuries could have been inflicted by any adult" strong enough to pick up a 43-pound child, he said.
  22. And since each adult is taxed, it means two people living in a two-room apartment would pay twice as much as one person living next door in an eight-room house.
  23. Morgenthau said he was not concerned with sexual misconduct because Kite is an adult and the allegations involving other youths were beyond the statute of limitations.
  24. As an adult, Mrs. Sulzberger traveled and rubbed elbows with the famous: she met Eleanor Roosevelt, dined with Chiang Kai-shek and sipped coffee with Golda Meir.
  25. "Years ago those who wanted to preserve the past were given the political power to make decisions," he said. "Today Mexico's past is doing well." Monreal, 46, has spent his adult life in museums, seeking ways to preserve treasures.
  26. That meant an adult film had only to sell about 20,000 videocassettes _ an average wholesale cost of $25 per cassette _ to qualify as a megahit.
  27. Since the early 1980s, wildlife biologists have been strapping transmitters weighing about 20 grams, or about as heavy as two quarters, on the backs of both juvenile and adult owls.
  28. While many cities have organized adult recreational sports leagues, Chicago Social Club operates for profit and stresses after-play socializing.
  29. Pacific Bell, a unit of Pacific Telesis Group, lets consumers block calls for free to all 976 dial-up services, and soon plans to give consumers the option of just blocking calls to adult messages or gab lines.
  30. The fellowship once claimed 300 adult members in four states, but disbanded in February.
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