grown-ups

英 [ɡrəʊn ʌps]

美 [ɡroʊn ʌps]

n.  大人; 成人
grown-up的复数

柯林斯词典

The spelling grownup is also used. The syllable up is not stressed when it is a noun. 亦拼作grownup，用作名词时up不重读。


• N-COUNT （用作儿语）成年人，大人
  Agrown-upis an adult; used by or to children.
  1. Jan was almost a grown-up...
     简都快是个大人了。
  2. Tell children to tell a grown-up if they're being bullied.
     告诉孩子们，如果被人欺负就告诉大人。
• ADJ 成熟的；成年的；长大的
  Someone who isgrown-upis physically and mentally mature and no longer depends on their parents or another adult.
  1. I have grown-up children who're doing well.
     我的几个孩子已经长大成人并且事业有成。
• ADJ-GRADED 似成人的；成熟的
  If you say that someone isgrown-up, you mean that they behave in an adult way, often when they are in fact still a child.
  1. She's very grown-up.
     她表现得很像个大人。
• ADJ-GRADED 适于成人的；成人的
  Grown-upthings seem suitable for or typical of adults.
  1. Her songs tackle grown-up subjects...
     她的歌曲唱的都是成年人的事情。
  2. She talked in a grown-up manner.
     她说起话来像个大人。

双语例句

• Somewhere in this world, there must be grown-ups.
  在这个世界上一定有成熟的人。
• It might sound like playground behaviour, but grown-ups do it too.
  这听起来也许像是小朋友的游戏行为，但是大人们也这样做。
• This meeting is for grown-ups only.
  这次聚会只许成年人参加。
• I showed my masterpiece to the grown-ups, and asked them whether the drawing frightened them.
  我把我的杰作给大人们看，问他们我的画是不是让他们害怕？
• I was making more money than most of the grown-ups around.
  我赚的钱已经比附近的大人还多。
• Children can get some money from grown-ups as gifts.
  孩子们可从大人那里得到一些钱作为礼物。
• Even grown-ups can't lift it, to say nothing of children.
  大人尚且举不起来，何况小孩子。
• And no grown-ups will ever understand that this is a matter of so much importance!
  大人们永远也不会了解这件事有多么重要！
• Our party was composed of three grown-ups and four children.
  我们这组是由三个成年人和四个孩子组成的。
• Why were grown-ups always so stuffy and slow to recognize good ideas?
  为什么成年人总是那么一本正经，对好点子反应那么迟缓呢？