adulthood

英 [ˈædʌlthʊd]

美 [əˈdʌlthʊd]

n.  成年

TEM8医学

BNC.11718 / COCA.7780

牛津词典

noun

• 成年
  the state of being an adult
  1. a child reaching adulthood
     已成年的孩子

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 成年
  Adulthoodis the state of being an adult.
  1. Few people nowadays are able to maintain friendships into adulthood.
     如今很少有人能将友谊维持到成年。

英英释义

noun

• the state (and responsibilities) of a person who has attained maturity
• the period of time in your life after your physical growth has stopped and you are fully developed
  Synonym:maturity

双语例句

• It is analogous to young adulthood, when we are discovering who we are.
  和人类的青年时代相似，是我们发现我们是谁的时期。
• Music is full of my life from the childhood to adulthood.
  它陪伴我度过我的童年，青年和成年时期。
• Inhibition in adulthood seems to be very clearly a reflection of a person's experiences as a child.
  一个人成年期的情感压抑似乎很明显是其童年时期经历的反映。
• Legally, people reach adulthood at the age of18in my country.
  在我们国家，到了18岁在法律上就成年了。
• Perhaps because sixteen marks our coming of age, which is the interim period between childhood and adulthood.
  可能是因为16岁标志着我们行将成年，这是童年和成年之间的过渡期。
• But he has sustained his fierce social conscience from young adulthood through old age
  而他从青年时期一直到老年都始终保持着强烈的社会良知。
• These require the labor-and time-intensive processes of gestation and child rearing to reach adulthood.
  这就要求必须有劳动和时间密集的孕育和抚养过程使克隆婴儿长大成人。
• They help students begin healthy behaviors that build toward a healthy adulthood.
  他们帮助在向成人期的过渡中的学生培养健康的行为。
• When they reach young adulthood, they choose their own careers and marriage partners.
  成年后，他们自己选择职业和结婚对象。
• The authors said that extra schooling had a sizeable effect on IQ in early adulthood.
  该研究作者称，刚进入成年期时，在学校额外呆的时间对智商有很大的影响。