But adults are not the only ones who have something to say about the holiday season.

VOA: special.2009.12.21

There's a wonderful case in Nicaragua in sign language where they acquire sign language from adults who themselves are not versed in sign language.

研究者在尼加拉瓜曾做过,一个精彩的手语个案研究,儿童们从本身并不熟悉手语的成年人那里,习得手语

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

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"

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They said adults should not take more than six hundred fifty milligrams at a time.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

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

Traditional CPR should also be used for adults found already unconscious and not breathing normally.

VOA: special.2009.06.09

Those doctors would still not be able to improve school performance of the kids with learning disabilities and they would still not be able to prevent cognitive impairment and loss of memory in older adults because at this point we don't really understand enough about learning To know which neurons and synapses within a circuit would need to be tinkered with.

他恐怕还是改变不了有学习障碍的孩子们的表现,阻挡不了老年人的认知功能损害和记忆力的衰退,因为我们对这一学科的确知之甚少,不知道知道回路中的到底是哪些神经元和神经突触需要修复。

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Mister Rehm said the high death rate is even more surprising because the large majority of adults around the world do not drink alcohol at all.

VOA: special.2009.09.08

And this is my colleague, Marianne LaFrance, who is actually not smiling in that picture but she studies smiling and smiling in adults, smiling in children, smiling across cultures, and the different social uses of smiling.

另一位是我的同事，法国人玛丽安，她在照片上没有笑,但她研究微笑，成人的微笑，孩子的微笑，文明的微笑，微笑的不同社会功用。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Some older adults,for example, may not have enough vitamin B-twelve.

VOA: special.2009.04.21

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

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Slowly,colleges began to treat students not as children,but as adults.

VOA: special.2009.07.09

And adults are not the only ones at risk.

VOA: special.2009.03.11

Students were not considered adults until twenty-one.

VOA: special.2009.07.09

The study looked at leptin levels in more than 700 elderly adults who did not have dementia.

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

The measure does not criminalize tobacco or limit the availability of tobacco products to adults.

VOA: standard.2009.06.22

A recent public opinion poll shows that eight out of ten adults in the Czech Republic say they are not satisfied with the current political situation.

VOA: standard.2009.11.17