adulthood
US /'ædʌlthʊd/
・UK /'ædʌlthʊd/
B1 中級英檢高級
n. (u.)不可數名詞成年
When children reach adulthood, they are expected to take care of themselves
n. (u.)不可數名詞成年人的權利和義務
In many cultures, adulthood is marked by specific rites of passage.
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人口過剩------------------------人類爆炸解釋 (Overpopulation – The Human Explosion Explained)
06:40
- Women had between 4 and 6 children, but only 2 of them would reach adulthood.
婦女平均生 4 到 6 個小孩，但是只有 2 個能夠長大成人。
研究證實「阿嬤」這個生物真的很奇妙！ (Evolution Can't Explain Your Grandma)
09:31
- For one thing, chimpanzee daughters leave the groups that they were born in when they reach adulthood, so older females don't live in the same groups as the offspring they're totally sure they're related to.
一方面，黑猩猩的女兒在成年後會離開她們出生的群體，因此年長的雌性黑猩猩不會與她們完全確定有親屬關係的後代生活在同一個群體中。
- born in when they reach adulthood, so older females don't live
是以，年長的雌性動物不會活到
【吉米秀】和艾瑪華森一起看小妙麗 NG 畫面，竟然是因為...！？ (Emma Watson's Harry Potter Outtake)
02:26
- and little do you know, it would take you all the way to adulthood.
而你當時並不知道這會一路陪伴你到成年
最醜陋的20種動物 (Top 20 Ugliest Animals)
16:31
- Even in adulthood, these guys can get up to over 10 ft across.
即使在成年期，這些傢伙也可以達到10英尺以上的寬度。
活著只為了五斗米折腰嗎？如何做正確的職涯選擇 (How to Love Your Work)
05:40
- What would enable us to make the right career choices is something that seems, on the face of it, to have nothing to do with work at all: love, a profound experience of love in both childhood and adulthood.
而做出正確職涯選擇的關鍵因素在表面上其實和工作完全沒有關係：那就是愛，在童年與成年時對於愛是否有過深刻的體驗。
你的一句話是什麼？這就是你做任何事情的原因! (What Is Your One Word? This Is Why You Do Everything!)
15:43
- The first love of his life died when he was 22, three of the four Children he had died before they reached adulthood.
他一生中的初戀情人在他22歲時就去世了，他的四個孩子中的三個在成年前就去世了。
