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n.成年人;成年动物(或植物);成体;成虫;

adj.成年的;成熟的;老成的;(针对)成人的;(尤指因含有色情内容)只适合成人的;

双语例句
  • Each ticket admits one adult.

    每张票只准许一位成人入场。

    《牛津词典》
  • An adult hedgehog can boast 7,500 spines.

    一只成年刺猬能有多达7500根刺。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • Children must be accompanied by an adult.

    儿童必须要有大人陪同。

    《牛津词典》
  • I've lived most of my adult life in Arizona.

    我已在亚利桑那州度过了我大部分的成年生活。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • All adult males will be liable for conscription.

    所有成年男子都将有义务服兵役。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • He had turned into an embittered, hardened adult.

    他已变成了一个内心充满怨恨,冷酷无情的成年人。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • Most adult education centres offer computer courses.

    大多数成人教育中心都设有计算机课程。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • Becoming a father signified that he was now an adult.

    成为一名父亲意味着他现在是一个成年人了。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • She had invested all her adult life in the relationship.

    她把成年后的时间全用于维护那一关系。

    《牛津词典》
  • As an adult, you can assess the situation realistically.

    作为成年人,你可以现实地估量这个局势。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • When my parents split up, it was all very adult and open.

    我父母离异时,事情处理得很成熟、很开放。

    《牛津词典》
  • She was very sympathetic to the problems of adult students.

    她对成年学生的问题很同情。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • Adult behaviour is often patterned by childhood experiences.

    成年人的行为模式往往是童年经历造成的。

    《牛津词典》
  • The average adult man burns 1,500 to 2,000 calories per day.

    一个普通成年男子每天消耗1500到2000卡路里热量。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • Children must use an approved child restraint or adult seat belt.

    儿童必须使用经过认可的儿童安全带或成人座椅安全带。

    《牛津词典》
  • Through play, children act out in miniature the dramas of adult life.

    通过游戏,孩子们演出了成年人生活的缩影。

    《牛津词典》
  • It is no longer desirable for adult children to live with their parents.

    孩子长大成人后便不再想与父母住在一起了。

    《牛津词典》
  • Children do not use inflections such as are used in mature adult speech.

    儿童不使用像成年人言语中使用的那些词形变化。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • Bevin is now an adult and has re-lived her birth experience under hypnosis.

    贝文现在已是成年人,在催眠状态下,她再次经历了出生过程。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • In many societies, young people are formally initiated into their adult roles.

    在很多社会,年轻人要通过正式的仪式进入成年。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • It is important that an adolescent boy should have an adult in whom he can confide.

    一个青春期男孩应该有一个他能倾吐心声的成年人,这是很重要的。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • Offering advice on each and every problem will undermine her feeling of being adult.

    每个问题都为她提出忠告会逐渐削弱她的成年意识。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • The pupae remain dormant in the soil until they emerge as adult moths in the winter.

    蛹在土壤下休眠,直到冬季才变为成年的蛾飞出来。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • Eventually your child will leave home to lead her own life as a fully independent adult.

    你的孩子最终会离开家,作为完全独立的成年人过她自己的日子。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • I came into adult life clueless about a lot of things that most people take for granted.

    我成年后,发现自己对大多数人认为是理所当然之事知之甚少。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • Angus's child-like paintings contrast starkly with his adult subject matter in these portraits.

    安格斯孩子般的绘画和他这些肖像画里的成人主题对比鲜明。

    《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  • He is like a childish adult.

    他就像一个幼稚的成年人。

  • I'd like two adult tickets, please.

    我买两张成人票。

  • What are adult toys?

    什么是成人玩具?

  • The adult Chinese white dolphin is pink.

    那只成年中华白海豚拥有一身耀眼的粉红色。

短语搭配
  • adult education

    成人教育

  • young adult

    年轻人;大学生

  • adult population

    成年人口

  • adult learning

    成人学习

  • mature adult

    成熟的成年人

  • adult school

    成人学校;成人进修学校

近义词
adj. 成年的;成熟的
n. 成年人
反义词
同义词辨析

adult, grown-up, mature

这些形容词均有\成年的,成熟的\之意。

  • adult :一般指生理上的童年期已结束,达到法定年龄。

  • grown-up :多用于口语,含义与adult基本相同,但更侧重脱离儿童阶段,已成大人,与childish意思相反。

  • mature :用于生物时,指完全长好了。用于人时,指达到了生命的黄金时期,但所暗示的青少年和成年之间的界限不明显。

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  • adjournv. 休;中止;把…延期;推迟;换地方;延迟
  • admonishv. 劝告;告诫;责备;诚恳建议;力主;力劝;提醒…避免某事
  • adequateadj. 足够的;能满足需要的
  • advicen. 劝告;意见;建议;消息;正式通知;信息
  • adaptv. 使适应;修改;调整;适应;改编
  • admirev. 赞美;钦佩;欣赏
  • adjacentadj. 邻近的;毗连的;隔壁的;相邻的
  • adherev. 粘着在…上;信仰;追随;如实详细反映
  • admissionn. 承认;准入;入场费;入院病人;入场人数;入场券票价
  • advocaten. 拥护者;倡导者;辩护者;辩护律师;辩护人;律师
  • adornv. 装饰
  • addictn. 上瘾者;入迷的人
  • adventuren. 冒险经历;冒险的刺激;不顾后果(或潜在危险)的行为;生意
  • adjectiven. 形容词
  • admitv. 承认;允许…进入;准许…进入;容许有;使有权进入;为…办理入院手续;允许(某人;国家;组织)加入;允许…分享特权
  • adjoinv. 与…邻接;毗邻;连接;增加;结合
  • adjustv. 调整;整理;理算;评估;调节;适应;习惯
  • adoptv. 收养;采用;采纳;选择定居于;迁居;采取;把… 选为公职候选人;通过;正式批准;接受
  • advisev. 建议;推荐;通知
  • advocacyn. 拥护;提倡;主张;律师职业
  • administerv. 管理;分发;实施;负责执行;监管;给予;主持(圣礼;尤指圣餐)仪式;主持
  • adorev. 敬爱;崇敬;崇拜;喜爱
  • adjunctn. 附属物;附件;辅助物;附加语;修饰语;助手;帮手;副词状语
  • advertisev. 为…做广告;广告招聘;宣传;让人知道;提醒…注意
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名词后缀

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  • expertadj. 内行的;专家的
考纲分布

6年出现 150

重要程度
  • 84%

    cn 成年人

  • 16%

    adj 成年的

考纲释义
  • cn. 成年人

    真题例句:

    • \The earlier you start, the better...\ the writer of How to Raise an Adult said.

      “你开始得越早越好……”《如何抚养成人》的作者说。

      [2021年 梧州市卷 阅读理解]
    • After a cicada becomes an adult, it sings loudly in hot summer.

      蝉成年后,在炎热的夏天大声歌唱。

      [2020年 绵阳卷 信息摘录]
    • After growing into an adult, it is named a born singer.

      长大成人后,取名为天生歌手。

      [2020年 绵阳卷 信息摘录]
  • adj. 成年的

    真题例句:

    • An adult pet pig should not weigh more than 150 pounds.

      一只成年宠物猪的体重不应该超过150磅。

      [2021年 东营市卷 阅读表达]
    • I knew Jack's now adult son, Bill.

      我认识杰克现在已成年的儿子比尔。

      [2020年 黄冈卷 完形填空]
    • After the babies finished eating  the keeper asked, “Would you like to help feed the adult squirrels, too?”

      小松鼠吃完后,饲养员问:“你也想帮忙喂成年松鼠吗?”

      [2020年 北京市 阅读理解]
必考派生词
考纲分布

12年出现 10

重要程度
  • 100%

    adj/n 成年的(人/动物)

考纲释义
  • adj/n. 成年的(人/动物)

    英文释义:

    (of a person or animal) fully grown or developed

    真题例句:

    • Adults understand what it feels like to be flooded with objects.

      成年人理解被各种物品淹没的感觉。

      [2018年 全国卷3 阅读理解]
    • These advertise the presence of chicks to adults.

      这些广告向成年人宣传雏鸟的存在。

      [2017年 全国卷1 阅读理解]
    • Having your grandchildren far away is hard, especially knowing your adult child is struggling.

      让你的孙辈远离家乡是很困难的,尤其是知道你的成年子女正在奋斗。

      [2016年 全国卷1 阅读理解]
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  • adjournv. 休;中止;把…延期;推迟;换地方;延迟
  • admonishv. 劝告;告诫;责备;诚恳建议;力主;力劝;提醒…避免某事
  • adequateadj. 足够的;能满足需要的
  • advicen. 劝告;意见;建议;消息;正式通知;信息
  • adaptv. 使适应;修改;调整;适应;改编
  • admirev. 赞美;钦佩;欣赏
  • adjacentadj. 邻近的;毗连的;隔壁的;相邻的
  • adherev. 粘着在…上;信仰;追随;如实详细反映
  • admissionn. 承认;准入;入场费;入院病人;入场人数;入场券票价
  • advocaten. 拥护者;倡导者;辩护者;辩护律师;辩护人;律师
  • adornv. 装饰
  • addictn. 上瘾者;入迷的人
  • adventuren. 冒险经历;冒险的刺激;不顾后果(或潜在危险)的行为;生意
  • adjectiven. 形容词
  • admitv. 承认;允许…进入;准许…进入;容许有;使有权进入;为…办理入院手续;允许(某人;国家;组织)加入;允许…分享特权
  • adjoinv. 与…邻接;毗邻;连接;增加;结合
  • adjustv. 调整;整理;理算;评估;调节;适应;习惯
  • adoptv. 收养;采用;采纳;选择定居于;迁居;采取;把… 选为公职候选人;通过;正式批准;接受
  • advisev. 建议;推荐;通知
  • advocacyn. 拥护;提倡;主张;律师职业
  • administerv. 管理;分发;实施;负责执行;监管;给予;主持(圣礼;尤指圣餐)仪式;主持
  • adorev. 敬爱;崇敬;崇拜;喜爱
  • adjunctn. 附属物;附件;辅助物;附加语;修饰语;助手;帮手;副词状语
  • advertisev. 为…做广告;广告招聘;宣传;让人知道;提醒…注意
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成长

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名词后缀

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  • expertadj. 内行的;专家的
必考短语
  • adult life

    成人生活;成年生活;成人生命

必考派生词
单词辨析
  • adult一般指生理上的童年期已结束,达到法定年龄。

  • grown-up多用于口语,含义与 adult 基本相同,但更侧重脱离儿童阶段,已成大人,与 childish 意思相反。

  • mature指人或动植物发育成熟的;也指小孩或年轻人在性格、情感方面趋于成熟、明白事理的。

真题例句
  • Adults understand what it feels like to be flooded with objects.

    2018年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
  • Any child must be accompanied by at least one paying adult.

    2015年高考英语福建卷 阅读理解 阅读C 选项
  • Babies need a lot of rest: most of them sleep about 18 hours a day! adults need about eight hours.

    2017年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
  • But it can be taught to children and developed in adults.

    2015年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
  • Changing levels of body chemicals called hormones not only make teenagers' bodies develop adult characteristics, but also make it hard for teenagers to fall asleep before 11 pm.

    2017年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
  • Competent adults know more about love than work.

    2016年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 选项
  • Confidence grows more rapidly in adults.

    2015年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读D 选项
  • During those six months of hospitalizations, Becky, 12 at the time, adjusted to other adults being in the house when she returned from school.

    2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
  • Emotional health is essential to a wonderful adult life.

    2016年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 选项
  • Having your grandchildren far away is hard, especially knowing your adult child is struggling, but giving up the life you know may be harder.

    2016年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
  • He finds that if babies aged 18 months see an unrelated adult with hands full trying to open a door, almost all will immediately try to help.

    2016年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
  • However, greater parental involvement does not necessarily indicate that parents are failing to let go of their \adult\ children.

    2015年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
  • However, now they are becoming an extended period of adolescence, during which many of today's students and are not shouldered with adult responsibilities.

    2016年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
  • Instead of promoting the idea of college as a passage from the shelter of the family to autonomy and adult responsibility, universities have given in to the idea that they should provide the same environment as that of the home.

    2016年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
  • Jenny Mosley's quality circle time model involves setting up an on-going, timetable process of circle-meeting for adults and children.

    2016年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
  • Know how to offer help to adults.

    2016年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 选项
  • Learn how to deal with people now, because when you're an adult, you don't get to choose your boss or your co-workers, so learn how to respect them now.

    2016年高考英语浙江卷(10月) 阅读理解 七选五 原文
  • Maxime's early entry into the adult world with its responsibilities gave her the determination to ensure that her kids would not end up in Waterhouse's roundabout of poverty.

    2016年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
  • Moreover, the tendency for universities to monitor and shape student behavior runs up against another characteristic of young adults: the response to being controlled by their elders.

    2016年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
  • Most of his adult life has been a losing struggle against debt and misfortune.

    2019年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
  • Most of us observed much more as children than we do as adults.

    2018年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
  • Perhaps evolution provided human babies with curiosity and a natural drive to explain their worlds, and adult scientists simply make use of the same drive that served them as children.

    2016年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 阅读理解 阅读C 原文
  • The annual death rate for adult condors has dropped from 38% in 2000 to 5%.

    2016年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文
  • The changes of adult children's behavior.

    2015年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 选项
  • The college years are supposed to be a time for important growth in autonomy and the development of adult identity.

    2016年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
  • The link between what the men had done as boys and how they turned out as adults was surprisingly sharp.

    2016年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文
  • The most competent adults are those who know how to do this.

    2016年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文
  • The same cognitive systems that make young children feel good about feel good about figuring something out may have been adopted by adult scientists.

    2016年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 阅读理解 阅读C 原文
  • The same is true of the young adults going to college.

    2014年高考英语全国卷1 完形填空 原文
  • These activities are regulated by flexible rules adapted from standardized sport rules and are set up by the children or by an involved adult.

    2015年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读表达 原文
  • These advertise the presence of chicks to adults; they might also encourage our chick to start calling as well.

    2017年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
  • Third, youth-sport programs are critical for the learning of motor skills, these motor skills serve as a foundation for future national sport stars and recreational adult-sport participants.

    2015年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读表达 原文
  • To sum up, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit is an amazing film which is suitable for both children and adults.

    2015年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
  • Trust adults with their hands full.

    2016年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 选项
考纲分布

12年出现 106

重要程度
  • 100%

    adj/n 成年的; 处于成年期的人/动物

考纲释义
  • adj/n. 成年的; 处于成年期的人/动物

    英文释义:

    (of a person or animal) fully grown or developed

    真题例句:

    • Furthermore, most adult cases of clinical depression first emerge in adolescence (青春期) .

      此外,大多数成人临床抑郁症病例首先出现在青春期。

      [2021年 CET4 阅读理解B]
    • Without numbers, healthy human adults struggle to precisely differentiate and recall quantities as low as four.

      没有数字,健康的成年人很难精确区分和回忆起低至4的数量。

      [2021年 CET4 阅读理解B]
    • Whether you can successfully change your personality as an adult is the subject of a longstanding psychological debate.

      作为一个成年人你是否能成功地改变自己的性格,这是一个长期存在的心理学论题。

      [2016年 CET4 阅读理解]
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  • adjournv. 休;中止;把…延期;推迟;换地方;延迟
  • admonishv. 劝告;告诫;责备;诚恳建议;力主;力劝;提醒…避免某事
  • adequateadj. 足够的;能满足需要的
  • advicen. 劝告;意见;建议;消息;正式通知;信息
  • adaptv. 使适应;修改;调整;适应;改编
  • admirev. 赞美;钦佩;欣赏
  • adjacentadj. 邻近的;毗连的;隔壁的;相邻的
  • adherev. 粘着在…上;信仰;追随;如实详细反映
  • admissionn. 承认;准入;入场费;入院病人;入场人数;入场券票价
  • advocaten. 拥护者;倡导者;辩护者;辩护律师;辩护人;律师
  • adornv. 装饰
  • addictn. 上瘾者;入迷的人
  • adventuren. 冒险经历;冒险的刺激;不顾后果(或潜在危险)的行为;生意
  • adjectiven. 形容词
  • admitv. 承认;允许…进入;准许…进入;容许有;使有权进入;为…办理入院手续;允许(某人;国家;组织)加入;允许…分享特权
  • adjoinv. 与…邻接;毗邻;连接;增加;结合
  • adjustv. 调整;整理;理算;评估;调节;适应;习惯
  • adoptv. 收养;采用;采纳;选择定居于;迁居;采取;把… 选为公职候选人;通过;正式批准;接受
  • advisev. 建议;推荐;通知
  • advocacyn. 拥护;提倡;主张;律师职业
  • administerv. 管理;分发;实施;负责执行;监管;给予;主持(圣礼;尤指圣餐)仪式;主持
  • adorev. 敬爱;崇敬;崇拜;喜爱
  • adjunctn. 附属物;附件;辅助物;附加语;修饰语;助手;帮手;副词状语
  • advertisev. 为…做广告;广告招聘;宣传;让人知道;提醒…注意
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  • expertadj. 内行的;专家的
必考短语
必考派生词
单词辨析
  • adult一般指生理上的童年期已结束,达到法定年龄。

  • grown-up多用于口语,含义与 adult 基本相同,但更侧重脱离儿童阶段,已成大人,与 childish 意思相反。

  • mature指人或动植物发育成熟的; 也指小孩或年轻人在性格、情感方面趋于成熟、明白事理的。

真题例句
  • She studied the smoking patterns of adult smokers.

    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • By studying about 700 adult smokers, she found out that her mom quit the right way—by stopping abruptly and completely.

    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • [The most recent of these studies, published in The Journal of Applied Gerontology, surveyed 150 Connecticut residents of assisted living, nursing homes and smaller residential care homes ( ' , known in some states as board and care homes or adult care homes).

    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • Whether you can successfully change your personality as an adult is the subject of a longstanding psychological debate.

    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • The study, which followed more than 2,000 healthy adults between the ages of 18 and 60, found that certain mental functions—including measures of abstract reasoning, mental speed and puzzle-solving—started to dull as early as age 27.

    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • The study included healthy, educated adults who took standard tests of memory, reasoning and perception at the outset and at some point over the next seven years.

    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • The results do not mean that young adults need to start worrying about their memories.

    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • Patterns of childhood eating can be hard to break when we're adults, which may mean that kids of depressed moms end up dying younger.

    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • Older adults, especially those with limited mobility or difficulty driving on their own, are one of the classic use-cases for driverless cars.

    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • And that the characteristics adult children look for when they begin the search are not necessarily the things that make a difference to the people who are going to move in.

    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • We are at a point where in much of the developed world the vast majority of young people grew up playing video games, and an increasingly high percentage of adults play these video games too, Werbach says.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • They found that the majority of both kids and adults opted for a half-sized portion when combined with a prize.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • Neither children nor adults could resist the temptation of a free toy.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • Most kids and adults would choose a smaller meal that came with a non-food item.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • Most kids and adults don't actually feel hungry when they eat half of their meal.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • Even more interesting is that the promise of a future reward was enough to make adults choose the smaller portion.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • Eating a smaller portion of food does good to the health of kids and adults alike.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • Both kids and adults felt satisfied with only half of their meal portions.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • Adults chose the smaller portion on the mere promise of a future award.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • Yet moments like this one are just the kind of intense absorption and pleasure adults spend the rest of their lives seeking.

    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • What distinguishes children from adults is their strong ability to derive joy from what they are doing.

    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • The thing that sets children apart from adults is not their ignorance, nor their lack of skills.

    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • Adults tend to talk about learning as if it were medicine: unpleasant, but necessary and good for you.

    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • Adults do not consider children's feelings when it comes to education.

    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • A child's ability to become deeply absorbed in something, and derive intense pleasure from that absorption, is something adults spend the rest of their lives trying to return to.

    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • It is reported that 49 million Americans are unsure of where they will find their next meal What's most surprising is that 36% of them live in households where at least one adult is working.

    出自-2012年6月阅读原文
  • But by senior year, two-thirds have moved up to physics, says Gilbert Our kids are coming to school in part because they know there are adults here who know them and care for them.

    出自-2012年6月阅读原文
  • The more healthy an older adult is, the more they sleep like they did when they were younger.

    出自-2011年6月阅读原文
  • The popular notion that older people need less sleep than younger adults is a myth, scientists said yesterday.

    出自-2011年6月阅读原文
  • Our data suggests that older adults would benefit from continuing to get as much sleep as they did in their 30s

    出自-2011年6月阅读原文
  • The new CNS Spectrums study was based on results of a nationwide telephone survey of more than 2,500 adults.

    出自-2010年6月阅读原文
  • When people care for an elderly relative, they often do not use available community services such as adult daycare centers.

    出自-2011年6月听力原文
  • If the caregivers are adult children, they are more likely to use such services, especially because they often have jobs and other responsibilities

    出自-2011年6月听力原文
  • On the other hand, they may want to live with their adult children.

    出自-2011年6月听力原文
  • Why are adult children more likely to use community services to help care for elderly parents

    出自-2011年6月听力原文
  • Adult day-care centers are easily accessible.

    出自-2011年6月听力原文
  • Studies show that for adults there is no danger, but children can develop loss of vision if they have glasses inappropriate for their eyes.

    出自-2011年6月听力原文
  • It will gradually weaken the eyes of adults

    出自-2011年6月听力原文
  • Economic factors seem to explain less of why young adult women are increasingly likely to live at home.

    2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • If not cultivated, it will not survive: Childhood curiosity is a collaboration between child and adult.

    2017年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • The most recent of these studies, published in The Journal of Applied Gerontology, surveyed 150 Connecticut residents of assisted living, nursing homes and smaller residential care homes known in some states as board and care homes or adult care homes.

    2016年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • While cereal remains a firm favourite among breakfast consumers in the UK and US, a recent investigation into the sugar content of adult breakfast cereals found that some cereals contain more than three-quarters of the recommended daily amount of free s

    2019年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
考纲分布

12年出现 58

重要程度
  • 100%

    adj/n 成年的; 处于成年期的人/动物

考纲释义
  • adj/n. 成年的; 处于成年期的人/动物

    英文释义:

    (of a person or animal) fully grown or developed

    真题例句:

    • First of all, guidance from adults should never be absent during the whole process of young people's growth.

      首先,在年轻人成长的整个过程中,成年人的引导是不应该缺席的。

      [2021年 CET6 写作]
    • As an adult, Marconi had an intuition that he had to be loyal to politicians in order to be influential.

      作为一个成年人,Marconi有一种直觉,他必须对政治家忠诚,才能成为有影响力的人。

      [2021年 CET6 阅读理解]
    • Some argue that so many adults have abandoned drawing because we've miscategorized it and given it a very narrow definition.

      一些人认为,很多成年人放弃了绘画,因为我们对它进行了错误的分类,给了它一个非常狭隘的释义。

      [2021年 CET6 阅读理解]
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  • adjournv. 休;中止;把…延期;推迟;换地方;延迟
  • admonishv. 劝告;告诫;责备;诚恳建议;力主;力劝;提醒…避免某事
  • adequateadj. 足够的;能满足需要的
  • advicen. 劝告;意见;建议;消息;正式通知;信息
  • adaptv. 使适应;修改;调整;适应;改编
  • admirev. 赞美;钦佩;欣赏
  • adjacentadj. 邻近的;毗连的;隔壁的;相邻的
  • adherev. 粘着在…上;信仰;追随;如实详细反映
  • admissionn. 承认;准入;入场费;入院病人;入场人数;入场券票价
  • advocaten. 拥护者;倡导者;辩护者;辩护律师;辩护人;律师
  • adornv. 装饰
  • addictn. 上瘾者;入迷的人
  • adventuren. 冒险经历;冒险的刺激;不顾后果(或潜在危险)的行为;生意
  • adjectiven. 形容词
  • admitv. 承认;允许…进入;准许…进入;容许有;使有权进入;为…办理入院手续;允许(某人;国家;组织)加入;允许…分享特权
  • adjoinv. 与…邻接;毗邻;连接;增加;结合
  • adjustv. 调整;整理;理算;评估;调节;适应;习惯
  • adoptv. 收养;采用;采纳;选择定居于;迁居;采取;把… 选为公职候选人;通过;正式批准;接受
  • advisev. 建议;推荐;通知
  • advocacyn. 拥护;提倡;主张;律师职业
  • administerv. 管理;分发;实施;负责执行;监管;给予;主持(圣礼;尤指圣餐)仪式;主持
  • adorev. 敬爱;崇敬;崇拜;喜爱
  • adjunctn. 附属物;附件;辅助物;附加语;修饰语;助手;帮手;副词状语
  • advertisev. 为…做广告;广告招聘;宣传;让人知道;提醒…注意
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  • expertadj. 内行的;专家的
必考短语
  • adult life

    成人生活;成年生活;成年人生活

必考派生词
单词辨析
  • adult一般指生理上的童年期已结束, 达到法定年龄。

  • grown-up多用于口语, 含义与 adult 基本相同, 但更侧重脱离儿童阶段, 已成大人, 与 childish 意思相反。

  • mature指人或动植物发育成熟的; 也指小孩或年轻人在性格、情感方面趋于成熟、明白事理的。

真题例句
  • Working-class parents teach their children to be obedient and show respect to adults.

    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • They are taught to be compliant and respectful to adults.

    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • Now, a new study that began with about 1,000 children in New Zealand has tracked how a child’s low self-control can predict poor health, money troubles and even a criminal record in their adult years.

    出自-2016年6月听力原文
  • A new study has failed to find any conclusive evidence that lifestyle changes can prevent cognitive decline in older adults.

    出自-2016年6月听力原文
  • Stress is also starting earlier in life, with some data suggesting that today's teens are even more stressed than adults.

    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • And in 2010, the researchers reported that children aged 12 to 17 saw more athlete-endorsed food and beverage brand commercials than adults.

    出自-2016年12月听力原文
  • To make matters worse, these schools are ill-equipped to graduate these students— young adults who face specific challenges and obstacles.

    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • So what factors, at the community level, do predict if poor children will move up the economic ladder as adults? What explains, for instance, why the Salt Lake City metro area is one of the 100 largest metropolitan areas most likely to lift the fortunes of the poor and the Atlanta metro area is one of the least likely?Harvard economist Raj Chetty has pointed to economic and racial segregation, community density, the size of a community's middle class, the quality of schools, community religiosity, and family structure, which he calls the single strongest correlate of upward mobility.

    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • More than a decade ago, cognitive scientists John Bransford and Daniel Schwartz, both then at Vanderbilt University, found that what distinguished young adults from children was not the ability to retain facts or apply prior knowledge to a new situation but a quality they called preparation for future learning.

    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • For example, the shortage of young adults is likely to make countries more reluctant to commit the few they have to military service.

    出自-2010年12月阅读原文
  • Countries that have a shortage of young adults will be less willing to commit them to military service

    出自-2010年12月阅读原文
  • Each group consisted of around 120 adults of similar age and education, and the test assessed their language skills.

    出自-2010年6月阅读原文
  • MS is the biggest crippler of young adults.

    出自-2013年12月听力原文
  • It is the biggest crippler of young adults

    出自-2013年12月听力原文
  • Then Michael, the eldest of her four adult children suggested they move in with his family.

    出自-2012年12月听力原文
  • The Polytechnic is all adults and mostly preparation for exams like the Cambridge certificates.

    出自-2010年6月听力原文
  • \I’ve seen very expensive protein supplements that claim to be high quality but they might not really be beneficial for the average healthy adult,\ she says.

    2019年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • At around age 60, \muscles really start to break down,\ says Kathryn Starr, an aging researcher, \and because of that, the protein needs of an older adult actually increase.

    2019年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • Experts believe there is a relationship between adult abuse of legitimate medicines and the drug culture that has swept our country.

    2017年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • government's recommended daily allowanceRD for the average adult is 50 to 60 gram of protein a day.

    2019年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • It's just that suddenly at university you are expected to behave like an adult.

    2019年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
  • Now, a new study that began with about 1,000 children in New Zealand has tracked how a child's low self-control can predict poor health, money troubles and even a criminal record in their adult years.

    2016年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • She may have observed the adult moth just as it emerged from its pupa.

    2018年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • Such wariness is well founded: statistics show, for example, that a teenage driver with a same-age passenger in the car is at higher risk of a fatal crash than an adolescent driving alone or with an adult.

    2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • Terrie Moffitt's paper on \The link Between Childhood Self-control and Adult Status Decades Later\ is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

    2016年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • The adult observers were able to reliably discern an assortment of emotions on the babies faces.

    2019年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
考纲分布

18年出现 27

重要程度
  • 96%

    adj/n 成年的(人/动物)

  • 4%

    adj (思想)成熟的

考纲释义
  • adj/n. 成年的(人/动物)

    真题例句:

    • Sixty toddlers were each introduced to an adult tester holding a plastic container.

      60个蹒跚学步的孩子被介绍给一个拿着塑料容器的成年测试者。

      [2018年 英语一 完型填空]
    • Obesity has risen among adults and children.

      成人和儿童的肥胖率有所上升。

      [2017年 英语二 阅读理解A]
    • As adults, it seems that we are constantly pursuing happiness, often with mixed results.

      作为成年人,我们似乎在不断追求幸福,结果往往喜忧参半。

      [2016年 英语二 阅读理解B]
  • adj. (思想)成熟的

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  • adjournv. 休;中止;把…延期;推迟;换地方;延迟
  • admonishv. 劝告;告诫;责备;诚恳建议;力主;力劝;提醒…避免某事
  • adequateadj. 足够的;能满足需要的
  • advicen. 劝告;意见;建议;消息;正式通知;信息
  • adaptv. 使适应;修改;调整;适应;改编
  • admirev. 赞美;钦佩;欣赏
  • adjacentadj. 邻近的;毗连的;隔壁的;相邻的
  • adherev. 粘着在…上;信仰;追随;如实详细反映
  • admissionn. 承认;准入;入场费;入院病人;入场人数;入场券票价
  • advocaten. 拥护者;倡导者;辩护者;辩护律师;辩护人;律师
  • adornv. 装饰
  • addictn. 上瘾者;入迷的人
  • adventuren. 冒险经历;冒险的刺激;不顾后果(或潜在危险)的行为;生意
  • adjectiven. 形容词
  • admitv. 承认;允许…进入;准许…进入;容许有;使有权进入;为…办理入院手续;允许(某人;国家;组织)加入;允许…分享特权
  • adjoinv. 与…邻接;毗邻;连接;增加;结合
  • adjustv. 调整;整理;理算;评估;调节;适应;习惯
  • adoptv. 收养;采用;采纳;选择定居于;迁居;采取;把… 选为公职候选人;通过;正式批准;接受
  • advisev. 建议;推荐;通知
  • advocacyn. 拥护;提倡;主张;律师职业
  • administerv. 管理;分发;实施;负责执行;监管;给予;主持(圣礼;尤指圣餐)仪式;主持
  • adorev. 敬爱;崇敬;崇拜;喜爱
  • adjunctn. 附属物;附件;辅助物;附加语;修饰语;助手;帮手;副词状语
  • advertisev. 为…做广告;广告招聘;宣传;让人知道;提醒…注意
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  • expertadj. 内行的;专家的
必考短语
必考派生词
真题例句
  • While it is easy to ignore in our contact with them the effect of our acts upon their disposition, it is not so easy as in dealing with adults.

    出自-2009年考研翻译原文
  • These groups mainly rely for instilling needed dispositions into the young upon the same sort of association which keeps the adults loyal to their group.

    出自-2009年考研翻译原文
  • It’s hard to imagine that many people are dumb enough to want children just because Reese and Angelina make it look so glamorous: most adults understand that a baby is not a haircut.

    出自-2011年考研阅读原文
  • An adult with a Bmi of 18 to 25 is often considered to be normal weight.

    2014年考研真题(英语二)完形填空 Section Ⅰ
  • Pretty in pink: adult women do not remember being so obsessed with the colour, yet it is pervasive in our young girls' lives.

    2012年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
  • sixty toddlers were each introduced to an adult tester holding a plastic container.

    2018年考研真题(英语一)完形填空 Section Ⅰ
  • They housed eight adult rats with two types of robotic rat- one social and one asocial - for 5 our days.

    2020年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ