Doctors say eating right and exercising should begin at a young age so that children will not grow into obese adults.

VOA: special.2010.06.07

But they were fully formed adults and intellectuals, and that was a heady experience for a kid from Chicago.

但他们是很成熟的成人和知识分子，而这对一个来自芝加哥的小孩来说很不同。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

I have a daughter. So there's a lot of little parks for children, a lot of things for adults.

我有一个女儿。那里有很多小小的儿童乐园，也有许多成人玩的东西。

最美丽的公园 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Still,law enforcement officials have long warned about the dangers of young people being identified by adults wishing to harm them.

VOA: special.2009.02.03

And in that emphasis on the dark side of schooling, should give pause to adults who were looking for an understanding of why something like Columbine comes about.

这一对学校黑暗面的控诉，应该给成年人们敲了一记警钟,尤其是那些在探讨,为什么会有科罗拉多可伦拜枪杀案这样的事件。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

The study also found that more than one-quarter of American adults have left the religion in which they were raised.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

Some linguists would interview --Linguists would interview adults in these communities and say, "Why don't you speak to your babies?"

语言学家们会访问,住在这些社会中的成人,然后问道,"你为什么不和你的宝宝说话"

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"In a single generation, we've fallen from first place to twelfth place in college graduation rates for young adults.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

We'v e shown that learning optimism prevents depression and anxiety in children and adults, roughly halving their incidence over the next 2 years.

研究证实，乐观可帮助儿童和成人,预防抑郁和焦虑，使未来两年的发病率降低一半。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

For that reason, the researchers designed a study that examined results from a mental-performance test of older Asian adults.

VOA: special.2009.05.19

So, the problem we have to solve to help people like MikeIs to find ways to cause those parts of cortex to develop properly when they are children or have them re-learn as adults.

因此，我们要帮助像迈克这样的人解决的问题,就是找到他们在儿童时期使,这些皮层进行发展,或者成年以后再学习的方法。

斯坦福公开课 - 7个颠覆你思想的演讲课程节选

For this reason, the researchers designed a study that examined results from a mental-performance test of older Asian adults.

VOA: special.2010.06.01

So children go crazy for the Museum of Natural History, and even adults do.

所以孩子们为自然历史博物馆疯狂，甚至成年人也这样。

自然历史博物馆 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

People debate issues like industrial farming, the use of sweeteners and why today two out of three adults weigh too much.

VOA: special.2010.12.27

And the adults love it as much as the kids.

而且成年人和小孩一样喜欢它。

哈利•波特的人气 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

New York had the lowest rate, at seventy-nine percent of the adults observed at Grand Central Station and Penn Station.

VOA: special.2010.09.29

I also advocated it as a right for autonomous adults to choose if they are eternally ill.

我还主张将选择安乐死作为自主的成年人的一项权利,使他们在患有绝症的时候可以有所选择。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

The report said the rate of pneumonia in adults after surgery decreased more than eleven and a half percent.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

5% of adults and half of all children do not take the recommended amount of exercise."

5%的成人,和一半的儿童都达不到推荐的锻炼量"

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Young adults would use paint in special cans to spray their "tag" on walls and train cars around the city.

VOA: special.2009.04.08

This means the Israelites will have to wander for 40 years in the desert until all of those who left Egypt as adults pass away, leaving a new generation that hasn't really tasted slavery, to enter the land and form a new nation.

这意味着，犹太人必须在沙漠中流浪40年,直到所有一起出埃及的人过世，留下没有做过奴隶的，新一代人，进入应许之地，建立一个新的国家。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

A recent study found that emotional stress may put some older adults at risk of falls and broken bones.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

So I think the comparable and parallel structure for the baby-sitting for the younger children is that adults need time out.

所以我认为与青少年的,临时保姆目标相对应的,是成年人需要腾出时间。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

And she explains the theory of evolution through natural selection in a way that both children and adults will enjoy.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

Adults think that when an ugly kid misbehaves it's because they have an ugly soul while the attractive kid, "oh, that little scamp, somebody must have been bothering him."

大人觉得当丑小孩行为不当时,是因为他们的灵魂很丑陋,如果是好看的小孩行为不当，”那个小顽皮，一定是别人烦到他了“

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

While the adults go out at night for food, the young bats hang out in the cave for four or five weeks.

VOA: special.2009.12.07

So more adults were frightened of young people's access to the Internet than young people's access to the weaponry.

因此更多的成年人对,年轻人上网感到恐慌,甚于对年轻人能够接触枪支所感到的恐慌。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

This makes it a great choice of exercise for people with special needs, like pregnant women,older adults, and persons who are overweight.

VOA: special.2010.06.08

Fine. But there are reasons to study development even if you are not interested in children because sometimes developmental studies and developmental data and developmental science can inform questions about adults.

没关系,但即使你对儿童不感兴趣,却依然有很多原因促使你去研究发展,因为发展的研究,数据以及科学,有时可以解释成人的问题

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Final question, just to raise: I've talked in terms of the modular view but there might also be profound general differences between children and adults, not just specific to how you think about objects or how you think about people or how you think about this or how you think about that, but rather more general.

再说最后一个问题,我刚才是从模块理论的角度来讲述的,但在儿童与成人之间,或许还存在着深刻的一般性差异,不仅仅是具体到如何看待客体,如何看待他人,或是如何看待这个,如何看待那个,相反会更加一般化

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选