Is there a cut-off point between childhood and adulthood?

童年与成年之间有分界线吗？

Few people nowadays are able to maintain friendships into adulthood.

现今很少有人能够把友谊维持到成年。

Parents want to know the best way to nurture and raise their child to adulthood.

父母们想了解把他们的孩子养育成人的最好方法。

The transition from youth to adulthood can be a painful process.

从青年过渡到成年可能会是非常痛苦的一个过程。

Now researchers are discovering that this effect continues into adulthood.

现在研究人员发现这种影响会持续到成年期。

To cognitive researchers like Piaget, adulthood meant the beginning of occupation.

对于皮亚杰这样的认知研究人员来说，成年意味着一份职业的开始。

To cognitive researchers like Piaget, adulthood meant the beginning of an occupation.

对于皮亚杰这样的认知研究人员来说，成年意味着一份职业的开始。

In adulthood, looking someone else in a pleasant way can be a complimentary sign of paying attention.

成年后，以一种友好的方式看着别人可能是一种关注他人时表示敬意的信号。

What has changed, instead, is the relative share adopting different ways of living in early adulthood.

相反，在成年时期采用不同生活方式的相对比例发生了改变。

Being in transition to adulthood requires teenagers to think and make choices independently, so they might sometimes feel lost.

青少年处在向成年阶段转型的过渡期，这一阶段需要他们进行独立思考并独立做出选择，因此他们有时候会感到迷茫。

When we talk about Americans barely into adulthood who are saddled with unbearable levels of debt, the conversation is almost always about student loan debt.

美国人刚成年就背负着难以承受的债务，谈及他们时，话题几乎总是关于助学贷款。

They also focused on important rituals that appeared to preserve a people's social structure, such as initiation ceremonies that formally signify children's entrance into adulthood.

他们还注重于那些似乎能保存一个民族社会结构的重要仪式，比如正式标志着孩子进入成年的入会仪式。

If sufficient rain falls the next year to form another lake, the eggs hatch, and once again the shrimps pass rapidly through their cycle of growth, adulthood, egg-laying, and death.

如果第二年有足够的雨水形成另一个湖泊，卵就会孵化，小虾会再次快速地经历生长、成年、产卵和死亡的循环。

He has sustained his fierce social conscience from young adulthood through old age.

他从青年时代到晚年一直保持着强烈的社会良知。

Inhibition in adulthood seems to be a reflection of a person's experiences as a child.

成年期的压抑似乎是一个人童年经历的一种反映。

Many people all around the country work very hard to help falcons live to adulthood.

来自全国各地的许多人都付出了巨大努力帮助猎鹰活到成年。

Globally, a third of Sumatran cubs in zoos don't make it to adulthood, so I decided to give them round-the-clock care at home.

在全球范围内，动物园里三分之一的苏门答腊老虎幼崽活不到成年，所以我决定在家里全天候照顾它们。

But when John reached adulthood, he was better off than his childhood playmates.

但当约翰长大后，他比儿时的玩伴们过得更好。

Mothers and fathers can do a lot to ensure a safe landing in early adulthood for their kids.

父母可以做很多事来确保孩子在刚进入成年期时有不错的发展。

It peaks in young adulthood, levels out for a period of time, and then generally starts to slowly decline as we age.

它在青年时期达到顶峰，在一段时间内趋于平稳，然后普遍会开始随着年龄的增长而缓慢下降。

What about the son or daughter who is grown but seems to be struggling and wandering aimlessly through early adulthood?

那么，那些长大了却还在与命运抗争、找不到人生方向的青年男女们呢？

At the same time, we recognize that children might have an interest in entering adulthood free to create their own digital footprint.

同时，我们认识到，孩子们可能对成年后能自由创造自己的数据足迹感兴趣。

Hearing and telling stories about events may help children store information in ways that will endure into later childhood and adulthood.

听和讲述关于事件的故事可能会帮助孩子们以一种持续到童年后期及成年的方式储存信息。

None of these legal provisions determine at what point adulthood has been reached but they do point to the prolonged period of adolescence.

这些法律条文没有规定什么时候已经到了成年期，但是他们确实指出了延长的青春期。

Determining the functions of play is difficult because the functions may be long-term, with beneficial effects not showing up until the animal's adulthood.

定义玩耍的功能是困难的，因为这些功能可能是长期性的，其积极影响要到动物成年后才会显现。

With this study, researchers examined early academic attention and socio-emotional skills and how each contributed to academic success into young adulthood.

通过这项研究，研究人员调查了早期的学术关注和社会情感技能，以及它们分别是如何影响青少年学术成就的。

Declining mental function is often seen as a problem of old age, but certain aspects of brain function actually begin their decline in young adulthood, a new study suggests.

心智功能衰退通常被视为老年问题，但一项新的研究表明，大脑功能的某些方面实际上在青年时代就开始衰退了。