adults

英[ˈædʌlts]
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基本释义

n.
成年的人或动物( adult的名词复数 )

实用例句

Adults need to live their own lives and that's difficult with children.

大人需要过他们自己的生活,但有了孩子就很难做到了。

柯林斯例句

The doses I suggested for adults could be halved or quartered.

我之前建议成人服用的剂量可以降到1/2或者1/4。

柯林斯例句

They had liquor for the adults and sodas for the children.

他们为大人准备了酒,为小孩准备了汽水。

柯林斯例句

Generations of adults and children have delighted in the story.

一代又一代的成年人和儿童都很喜欢这个故事。

柯林斯例句

Many adults still depend on their children to work the video.

很多成年人仍然要靠孩子来操作录像机。

柯林斯例句

One in five young adults was struggling with everyday mathematics.

1/5的年轻人做日常的数学计算都费劲。

柯林斯例句

The finale had 50,000 adults standing in open-mouthed wonderment.

终场一幕让50,000名成年观众惊叹得张大嘴站了起来。

柯林斯例句

The company has targeted adults as its primary customers.

这家公司将成年人作为其主要顾客。

柯林斯例句

Thyme tea can be used by adults for its antiseptic qualities.

百里香茶的杀菌功效可用于成人。

柯林斯例句

Adults rarely give the television their undivided attention.

成年人很少会专心地看电视。

柯林斯例句

The admission price is $8 for adults.

成人门票8美元。

柯林斯例句

Most adults believe state schools are underfunded.

大多数成年人都认为公立学校经费不足。

柯林斯例句

The adults had reasserted their old authority.

大人们重申他们旧时的权威。

柯林斯例句

You and I are mature, freethinking adults.

你我都是明白事理、思想自由的成年人。

柯林斯例句

Babies lose heat much faster than adults.

婴儿散失热量较成人快很多。

柯林斯例句

真题例句

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 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

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

"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.

2016年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

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.

2015年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

A previous Pew Research Center analysis projected that as many as one-in-four of today's young adults may never marry.

2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

A variety of factors contribute to the long-run increase in the share of young adults living with their parents.

2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

Adults tend to talk about learning as if it were medicine: unpleasant, but necessary and good for you.

2015年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

Although economic research and previous survey findings have shown that career interruptions related to motherhood may make it harder for women to advance in their careers and compete for top executive jobs, relatively few adults in the recent survey poin

2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

Among young adults, living arrangements differ significantly by gender.

2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

And given the weak job opportunities facing young adults, living at home was part of the private safety net helping young adults to weather the economic storm.

2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

Children do not think the way adults do.

2015年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section A

Dating back to 1880, the most common living arrangement among young adults has been living with a romantic partner, whether a spouse or a significant other.

2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

Even more interesting is that the promise of a future reward was enough to make adults choose the smaller portion.

2016年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

For young adults without a bachelor's degree, as of 2008 living at home with their parents was more prevalent than living with a romantic partner.

2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

I want to make sure that older adults are still able to enjoy their old age, and that they're not spending time in hospital with infections, feeling unwell and being generally weak.

2019年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

In 2014, for the first time in more than 1 years, adults aged 18 to were slightly more likely to be living in their parents' home than they were to be living with a spouse or partner in their own household.

2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

In addition, a growing share of young adults may be avoiding marriage altogether.

2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

In addition, trends in both employment status and wages have likely contributed to the growing share of young adults who are living in the home of their parents, and this is especially true of young men.

2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

In most of our work, when we're looking at older adults who've got an illness, we always have to have health controls.

2019年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

Initially in the wake of the recession, college enrollments expanded, boosting title ranks of young adults living at home.

2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

It's worth nothing that the overall share of young adults living with their parents was not at a record high in 2014.

2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

Many of us grow up believing that skipping breakfast is a serious mistake, even if only two thirds of adults in the UK eat breakfast regularly, according to the British dietetic Association, and around three-quarters of Americans.

2019年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

Older adults, especially those with limited mobility or difficulty driving on their own, are one of the classic use-cases for driverless cars.

2016年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

One study recruited 200 obese adults to take part in a 16-week-long diet, where half added dessert to their breakfast, and half didn't.

2019年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

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.

2016年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

Some 14% of young adults lived alone, were a single parent or lived with one or more roommates.

2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

The Great Recession and modest recovery has also been associated with an increase in young adults living at home.

2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

The results do not mean that young adults need to start worrying about their memories.

2016年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

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.

2016年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

The thing that sets children apart from adults is not their ignorance, nor their lack of skills.

2015年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

They found that the majority of both kids and adults opted for a half-sized portion when combined with a prize.

2016年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

We know that as we get older, it's easier for us to get infections, so older adults have more chances of falling ill.

2019年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

Yet moments like this one are just the kind of intense absorption and pleasure adults spend the rest of their lives seeking.

2015年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

Young adults who went to college or graduate school were doing pretty well.

2017年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section B

Young adults with a college degree have fared much better in the labor market than their less-educated counterparts, which has in turn made it easier to establish their own households.

2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

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

The Polytechnic is all adults and mostly preparation for exams like the Cambridge certificates.

出自-2010年6月听力原文

"Make mathematics more available," Draujlcova says. Redesign it so it's more accessible to more kinds of people: young children, adults who worry about it, adults who may have had bad experiences."

2018年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

"The presence of peers makes adolescents and youth,but not adults, more likely to take risks," Steinberg and Gardner concluded.

2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

A new study has failed to find any conclusive evidence that lifestyle changes can prevent cognitive decline in older adults.

2016年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

For example, one study found healthy adults assigned to a high-fat diet for five days showed impaired attention, memory, and mood compared with a low-fat diet control group.

2019年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A

In a 2005 study, psychologist Laurence Steinberg of Temple University and his co-author, psychologist Margo Gardner, then at Temple, divided 6 people into three age groups: young adolescents, with a mean age of 14; older adolescents, with a mean age of 19

2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

In adults, excessive use of some pain-killing drugs may cause severe kidney damage.

2017年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

In contrast, adults behaved in similar ways regardless of whether they were on their own or observed by others.

2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

It was a huge milestone in the development of smartphones, which are now owned by a majority of American adults and are increasingly common across the globe.

2018年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

It's no surprise, then, that more than half of American adults don't get the 7 to 9 hours of shut-eye every night as recommended by sleep experts.

2015年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section A

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 b

2015年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

Older adults need to take in more protein to keep their muscles strong.

2019年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

Pipitone claims that healthy adults need not spend money on protein supplements.

2019年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

Redesign it so it's more accessible to more kinds of people: young children, adults who worry about it, adults who may have had bad experiences.

2018年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

So what factors, at the community level, do predict if poor children will move up the economic ladder as adults?

2015年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

So, children with minor self-control problems were likely as adults to have minor health problems, and so on.

2016年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

Such courses, Hacker argues, are a remedy for the numerical illiteracy of adults who have completed high-level math like algebra but are unable to calculate the price of, say, a carpet by area.

2018年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

Terrie Moffitt of Duke University and her research colleagues found that kids with self-control issues tended to grow up to become adults with a far more troubling set of issues to deal with.

2016年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

That suggests that catch - up sleep may undo some but not all of the damage that sleep 32 deprivation causes, which is encouraging, given how many adults don't get the hours they need each night.

2015年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section A

The brains of teenagers, but not adults, showed greater activity in two regions associated with rewards when they were being observed by same-age peers than when alone.

2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

The children of the study are now adults in their thirties.

2016年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

The market for products designed specifically for older adults could reach $30 billion by next year, and startups want in on the action.

2019年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

The startup's product, SentabTV, enables older adults who may not be comfortable with computers to access email, video chat and social media using just their televisions and a remote control.

2019年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

The study involved ordinary adults watching video clips of babies nine months or younger.

2019年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

Their desire for social drama is not—or not only—a way of distracting themselves from their school work or of driving adults crazy.

2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

They are taught to be compliant and respectful to adults.

2017年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

They found that students with more potential earned more as adults, and the reverse held true as well, no matter where they went to school.

2018年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

They scanned the brains of teens and adults who were playing a virtual driving game designed to test whether players would brake at a yellow light or speed on through the crossroad.

2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

To make matters worse, these schools are ill-equipped to graduate these students — young adults who face specific challenges and obstacles.

2015年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

Trips that many adults would consider the adventure of a lifetime-treks in Borneo, a sports tour to Barbados-appear to have become almost routine at some state schools.

2019年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

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

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

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

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

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 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

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 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 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

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

As adults, it seems that we're constantly pursuing happiness, often with mixed results.

2016年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Before it ends, it will likely change the life course and character of a generation of young adults.

2012年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

But as adults we also have the luxury of being able to control our own diaries and it's important that we schedule in time to enjoy the thing we love.

2016年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

If we adults could indulge in a bit of silliness and giggling, we would reduce the stress hormones in our bodies, increase good hormones like endorphin, improve blood flow to our hearts and ever have a greater chance of fighting off infection.

2016年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

In a recent study involving over 400 healthy adults, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania examined the effects of perceived social support and the receipt of hugs on the participants' susceptibility to developing the common cold aft

2017年考研真题(英语一)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

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.

2011年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Obesity has risen among adults and children.

2017年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Splitting kids, or adults, into ever-tinier categories has proved a sure-fire way to boost profits.

2012年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

The Flatiron School, where people pay to learn programming, started as one of the many coding bootcamps that's become popular for adults looking for a career change.

2016年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

The number of adults doing weekly sport did rise, by nearly 2 million in the run-up to 2012—but the general population was growing faster.

2017年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

The outbreak came to global notice in late April 2009, when Mexican authorities noted an unusually large number of hospitalizations and deaths among healthy adults.

2010年考研真题(英语二)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

Young people who are still getting started in life were more likely than older adults to prioritize personal fulfillment in their work, to believe they will advance their careers most by regularly changing jobs, to favor communities with more public servi

2016年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

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