By 1985, about 300,000 illiterate adults from all over the country, many of whom had never attended primary school, had learnt how to read, write and use numbers.
到1985年,全国大约有30万文盲成年人学会了读、写和使用数字,其中许多人从未上过小学。
It was a huge milestone in the development of smartphones, which are now owned by a majority of American adults and are increasingly common across the globe.
这是智能手机发展中的巨大里程碑,如今大多数美国成年人都拥有智能手机,这种情况在全球范围内也变得越来越普遍。
The number of adults doing weekly sport did rise, by nearly 2 million in the run—up to 2012—but the general population was growing faster.
截至2012年,每周锻炼身体的成年人数量的确增加了将近两百万,但总人口增长速度更快。
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
They take this makeshift communication system developed by adults and, again, they turn it into a full-blown language, suggesting that to some extent it's part of our human nature to create languages.
他们继承了成人发展出来的临时交流系统,将这个临时交流系统,再次发展成一种成熟的语言,这表明从某种程度上来说,创造语言是我们人类本性的一部分
The right to participate in development and the right to be respected by adults and institutions."
VOA: standard.2009.11.22
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