喜樂美語
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    Adulthood is the time of life when you are an adult — after childhood, and usually after the teenage years. Laws often mark the start of it with an age (eighteen in many places). Though actually, the law’s date and the feeling of being grown up are not the same: a person may be an adult on paper and still be finding their way. We say in adulthood, reach adulthood, early adulthood. It is a plain, useful word, not fancy.

    成年；成年時期

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

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組成From adult + -hood (a suffix that makes a noun for a state or time of life, as in childhood). Adult itself comes from Latin adultus; -hood comes from old English -hād.

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  • adultthe grown person you are in that time of life
  • childhoodthe same -hood suffix, for the earlier time of life

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

adulthoodnoun

  • 1

    The state or condition, for humans and other animals, of physical and psychological maturity: being an adult.

    • Meronyms: young adulthood; emerging adulthood (sometimes construed as coordinate)
    • Adulthood enables us to survive in the wilderness.
  • 2

    The time period of a person's majority, following puberty and lasting until death.

    • Meronyms: young adulthood; emerging adulthood (sometimes construed as coordinate)
    • The boy entered adulthood by undergoing a rite of passage.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。