名词 grownup:

1. a fully developed person from maturity onward

形容词 grownup:

1. (of animals) fully developed

The spelling grownup is also used. The syllable up is not stressed when it is a noun. 亦拼作grownup，用作名词时up不重读。

1.（用作儿语）成年人，大人
Agrown-up is an adult; used by or to children.

e.g. Jan was almost agrown-up...
简都快是个大人了。
e.g. Tell children to tell agrown-up if they're being bullied.
告诉孩子们，如果被人欺负就告诉大人。

2.成熟的；成年的；长大的
Someone who isgrown-up is physically and mentally mature and no longer depends on their parents or another adult.

e.g. I havegrown-up children who're doing well.
我的几个孩子已经长大成人并且事业有成。

3.似成人的；成熟的
If you say that someone isgrown-up, you mean that they behave in an adult way, often when they are in fact still a child.

e.g. She's verygrown-up.
她表现得很像个大人。

4.适于成人的；成人的
grown-up things seem suitable for or typical of adults.

e.g. Her songs tacklegrown-up subjects...
她的歌曲唱的都是成年人的事情。
e.g. She talked in agrown-up manner.
她说起话来像个大人。

• People who have learnt the alphabet late, when already grown-up.

  出自：A. Koestler

If you're good you can eat with the grown-ups.

你要是听话就可以跟大人一起吃饭。

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。

She has a grown-up son.

她有个已成年的儿子。

What do you want to be when you're grown-up?

你长大后想做什么？

If you're good you can eat with the grown-ups.

你要是听话就可以跟大人一起吃饭。

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。

She has a grown-up son.

她有个已成年的儿子。

What do you want to be when you're grown-up?

你长大后想做什么？

She talked in a grown-up manner.

她说起话来像个大人。

Her songs tackle grown-up subjects...

她的歌曲唱的都是成年人的事情。

She's very grown-up.

她表现得很像个大人。

I have grown-up children who're doing well.

我的几个孩子已经长大成人并且事业有成。

Tell children to tell a grown-up if they're being bullied.

告诉孩子们，如果被人欺负就告诉大人。

Jan was almost a grown-up...

简都快是个大人了。

A new town has grown up in this industrial district.

在这个工业区兴起了一座新城市.

This bush has grown up a lot in the last few months.

这矮树丛几个月来已向上长高了很多.

Now ( that ) you are grown up, you should not rely on your parents.

既然你长大了, 就不应该依靠你的父母.

The children have all grown up.

儿女都已长大成人.

They have grown up surrounded by reminders of their terrible past.

他们慢慢地被可怕的过去所困扰.

A number of misconceptions have grown up around this theory.

围绕着这一理论产生了不少的误解.

He feels it very shameful to sponge on his parents after he's grown up.

他觉得自己长大了还依赖父母感觉很丢脸.

Tom had grown up accepting his father's choice.

汤姆变得能够接受他父亲的选择了.

The child's grown up in happy times.

这孩子是在甜水里长大的.

Older people will have grown up in a time of greater sexual prudishness.

年纪稍大的人是在一个性观念更为保守的时代中成长起来的。

Now that their children have grown up she joins Paddy in London every other week.

他们的孩子都长大了，她便每隔一周就到伦敦帕迪那里。

When I was nine or ten someone explained to me that when you are grown up you have to work.

我大概9岁或10岁的时候，有人跟我说人长大了就得工作。

adult，grown-up，mature

这些形容词均有“成年的，成熟的”之意。

adult一般指生理上的童年期已结束，达到法定年龄。

grown-up多用于口语，含义与adult基本相同，但更侧重脱离儿童阶段，已成大人，与childish意思相反。

mature用于生物时，指完全长好了。用于人时，指达到了生命的黄金时期，但所暗示的青少年和成年之间的界限不明显。