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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The general was lord of a flourishing family, consisting of his wife and three grown-up daughters.
-- Among other things, he considered it undesirable to hurry his daughters to the matrimonial altar and to worry them too much with assurances of his paternal wishes for their happiness, as is the custom among parents of many grown-up daughters.
-- But it is a fact that I do not care to be among grown-up people and much prefer the society of children.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The wild young grandson makes answer to this and says, "You're as rich as rich can be; you have been at no uncommon expense on my account, you're saving up piles of money for my little sister that lives with you in a secret, stealthy, hugger-muggering kind of way and with no manner of enjoyment why can't you stand a trifle for your grown-up relation?"
-- Grown-up folks began to be interested in the bright-eyed girl, and some score of little boys fell desperately in love, and constantly left enclosures of nuts and apples, directed in small-text, at the wax-work door.
-- But the cares of the Marchioness did not stop here; for, disappearing for an instant and presently returning with a basin of fair water, she laved his face and hands, brushed his hair, and in short made him as spruce and smart as anybody under such circumstances could be made; and all this, in as brisk and business-like a manner, as if he were a very little boy, and she his grown-up nurse.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If any one had taken pity on this boy, Nekhludoff thought while looking at the sickly, frightened face of the boy, before want had driven him from the village to the city, and relieved that want, or, when, after twelve hours' work in the factory, he was visiting inns with grown-up comrades, some one had told him, "Don't go, Vania; it is bad," the boy would not have gone, or got drunk, and the burglary would never have occurred.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She lay, looking at him as at something she could never understand, never: as a child looks at a grown-up person, without hope of understanding, only submitting.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I don't mean a regular mute to attend grown-up people, my dear, but only for children's practice.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When a woman has five grown-up daughters, she ought to give over thinking of her own beauty.'
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