grown-up是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 成长的， 成熟的， 成人的n. 成年人，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the lit-tle Fir wanted so very much to be a grown-up tree.
-- There sat the two grown-up persons; grown-up, and yet children; children at least in heart; and it was summer-time; summer, glorious summer!
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Moreover, his attitude to Kitty in the past--the attitude of a grown-up person to a child, arising from his friendship with her brother--seemed to him yet another obstacle to love.
-- Chapter 21 Dolly came out of her room to the tea of the grown-up people.
-- The children knew Levin very little, and could not remember when they had seen him, but they experienced in regard to him none of that strange feeling of shyness and hostility which children so often experience towards hypocritical, grown-up people, and for which they are so often and miserably punished.
-- she thought of her children, remembering how she herself as a child had wondered how it was the grown-up people did not eat what was best of all--the scum of the jam.
-- Chapter 6 During the time of the children's tea the grown-up people sat in the balcony and talked as though nothing had happened, though they all, especially Sergey Ivanovitch and Varenka, were very well aware that there had happened an event which, though negative, was of very great importance.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I went out this afternoon, I went out and had a facial massage, so as to look nice for you, and then I knew you like conversation, so I got my little book about modern painting that I bought and I studied it terribly hard, but tonight I just couldn't seem to get the conversation around to modern painting--" He was sobbing, with her head on his shoulder, "Oh, you poor, scared, bullied kid, trying to be grown-up with these dollar- chasers!"
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'It's nothing but misfortunes now,' she added sud-denly with that peculiarly sedate air which children try hard to assume when they want to speak like grown-up people.
-- 'He loved Lida most,' she went on very seriously without a smile, exactly like grown-up people, 'he loved her be-cause she is little and because she is ill, too.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As if she had any need to wear forget- 256me-nots!It is the first really grown-up party that I have ever beeninvited to, and I am a little uncomfortable; for I appear not tobelong to anybody, and nobody appears to have anything to say tome, except Mr. Larkins, who asks me how my school-fellows are,which he needn't do, as I have not come there to be insulted.
-- The latter point I achieved at great personal inconvenience; but Istuck to it, because I felt it was a grown-up sort of thing.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One hears sometimes of a child being 'the picture of health;' now, Emma always gives me the idea of being the com-plete picture of grown-up health.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then you can stay up for balls and wear grown-up dresses, and what a good timemy little pink cheeks will have!Don't pout, dear.
-- She is the most helpless soul just like a sweet grown-up child, and Uncle Peter treats her that way.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Towards Mr. Pocket, as a grown-up infant with no notion of his own interests, they showed the complacent forbearance I had heard them express.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Body number three, wrote leaden little books for them, showing how the good grown-up baby invariably got to the Savings-bank, and the bad grown-up baby invariably got transported.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, her mother and I were not young when we married, and Pet has always had a sort of grown-up life with us, though we have tried to adapt ourselves to her.
-- The rest of the party were of the usual materials: travellers on business, and travellers for pleasure; officers from India on leave; merchants in the Greek and Turkey trades; a clerical English husband in a meek strait-waistcoat, on a wedding trip with his young wife; a majestic English mama and papa, of the patrician order, with a family of three growing-up daughters, who were keeping a journal for the confusion of their fellow-creatures; and a deaf old English mother, tough in travel, with a very decidedly grown-up daughter indeed, which daughter went sketching about the universe in the expectation of ultimately toning herself off into the married state.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For now and then she forgot her grown-up ways and acted like a spoiled child.
-- she said, with her most grown-up air.
-- 'I shall say I didn't know you, for you look so grown-up and unlike yourself, I'm quite afraid of you,' he said, fum-bling at his glove button.
-- 'If one could have a fine house, full of nice girls, or go traveling, the summer would be delightful, but to stay at home with three selfish sisters and a grown-up boy was enough to try the patience of a Boaz,' complained Miss Malaprop, after several days devoted to pleasure, fret-ting, and ennui.
-- 'I hope the Vaughns are not fine grown-up people.
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