| 单词 | adult |
| 例句 | adult adjective 1.•an adult woman:mature, grown-up, fully grown, full-grown, fully developed, of age, of legal age. 2.•an adult movie:sexually explicit, pornographic, obscene, smutty, dirty, rude, erotic, sexy, suggestive, titillating | porn, porno, naughty, blue, X-rated.WORD NOTE adult Somewhere along the line, this word has, so to speak, outgrown its limited association with biological age •(the adult fruit fly) and psychological maturity (Despite the rancorous divorce, they behaved like adults). And it's come to mean sex in general, and pornography in particular. •Adult entertainment. Adult videos. I assume that's supposed to mean that such forms of recreation, like sex itself, are the sole province of adults, and should be of no interest to children. Or perhaps it's meant as a warning to children—keep out, stay away—another example of language doing the opposite of what's intended. Otherwise, how to explain the conversation I overheard recently, in which a man explained that his two young sons had, unbeknownst to him, squandered a small fortune on adult pay TV? — FPConversational, opinionated, and idiomatic, these Word Notes are an opportunity to see a working writer's perspective on a particular word or usage. |
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