| 释义 |
grow up1Become an adult: a young girl who grew up in Texas...- Longing to be an adult is part of growing up, part of the normal expression of most children's fantasy lives.
- Would it be better to treat children like adults while they are growing up?
- Not surprisingly, when these children grow up to be young adults, they do just that.
1.1 [often in imperative] Begin to behave or think sensibly: grow up, sister, and come into the real world...- On the day when it begins to discipline itself with a self-denying ordinance we shall know it has begun to grow up.
- Just as childhood friendships fall apart when one friend grows up faster than the other, it couldn't make the leap to next generation consoles.
See parent entry: grow |