We left that train as a new and different family. All of us were more grown up, somehow, in the blink of an eye.

我们离开火车时，已经是一个截然不同的新家庭，在一瞬间，我们每个人都长大了。

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In some cases, schools should help children find new, more grown-up ways of doing the same things that are constant sources of joy: making art, making friends, making decisions.

在某些情况下，学校应该帮助孩子们找到更成熟的新方式来做同样的事情，如创造艺术、交朋友、做决定，这些事情是永恒的快乐源泉。

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Skater girl Avril Lavigne seems to have ditched her trademark T-shirts and trainers for an altogether more grown-up look.

滑板女孩艾薇儿似乎摒弃了她的标志性装扮：T恤衫和球鞋，取而代之的是更成熟的装扮。

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"A tremendous number of villagers live in fear, and we have officials who either can not or do not serve their people effectively, and violence is up, and it is not up only because there are more coalition forces, it is up because the insurgency has grown,"

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And sometimes, they're more grown up than grown ups themselves.

BBC: NEWS | Special Reports | Path to adulthood in the divided world

When the children graduate to more grown-up endeavors, a 300-foot zip line is installed on the property.

WSJ: The House of The Year

But Cheney's predictably over-the-top comments reminded those same Americans that he has no peer in politicizing issues of gravity--and they made Obama look that much more grown-up by comparison.

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