The problem with being a grown up is that there's an awful lot of serious stuff to deal with—work, mortgage payments, figuring out what to cook for dinner.

成年人的问题是，有一大堆重要的事情要处理——工作、按揭贷款、弄清楚晚餐该做什么。

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The child was clearly puzzled at being addressed in such a grown-up way.

这孩子显然对别人用这种成年人的方式称呼他感到纳闷。

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Frost thinks kids don't find the experience of being taught by smart machines as strange as older people because they have grown up in a time of computers and smart phones.

弗罗斯特认为，孩子们并不像老年人那样觉得被智能机器教东西很奇怪，因为他们成长在一个电脑和智能手机的时代。

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It was a little primitive establishment almost a commune in which Welles being a teenager, the grown-up will have a great time.

那是一个原始的建筑,就像一个小社区，在那里,威尔斯度过了少年。

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But that's part of being a grown-up.

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"Pity the guy, after making the effort to visit, wasn't grown up enough to have a break from being so self centered and make a comment like that, " Steve Landles wrote in the most popular comment on that Facebook post.

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In the worst case scenario, poor farmers could even end up being obliged to pay royalties to the patent holder on a product their forebears had grown for generations.

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