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

• I think we are all grown-ups and we have the ability to manage our own affairs.
  可我认为，我们都已经长大了，有能力管理自己的事情。
• 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？
• Every day we had to greet her, and other grown-ups, with this salute.
  我们每天见到她和其他大人，这个敬礼都不可不行。
• Perhaps I am a little like the grown-ups. I have had to grow old.
  或许，我已经有点像那些大人，已经变老了。
• You're not grown-ups; you're just children.
  你们还没长大，只是孩子。
• It's full of good arguments against smoking, for kids and grown-ups.
  这是反对吸烟很好的论据，无论孩子和大人都是一样的。
• 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。
• But as a child, he was always putting on plays for the grown-ups.
  但是作为一个孩子的时候，他总是把戏剧为大人了。
• And if the grown-ups fell ill it was even worse.
  大人们病了，就更了不得；
• We'll probably be grown-ups by then, but I'll get us two.
  到时我们也许都是大人了，不过我会给我们买两个。