英文美句D162：成年人会努力争取 会付出努力（会承担后果）

Grown-ups work for things. Grown-ups pay. Grown-ups suffer consequences.

成年人会努力争取，成年人会付出努力，成年人会承担后果。

——《消失的爱人》

【相关单词短语讲解】

1. Grown-up

复数：Grown-ups

[noun]

(used especially by and to children 尤作儿童用语) 大人；成人：an adult person

[同义词]： adult

(1) 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。

——《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》

(2) 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。

——《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》

(3) She"s very grown-up.

她表现得很像个大人。

——《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》

(4) Jan was almost a grown-up.

简都快是个大人了。

——《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》

(5) Most children will leave home after they are grown-up.

多数孩子长成大人后会离家而去。

——《外研社英语同义词辨析词典》

2. work for

被……雇用着；为……尽力；参加

(2) I wouldn"t work for her again ─ not at any price!

(1) Who do you work for?

你为谁工作？

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(2) I wouldn"t work for her again ─ not at any price!

我再也不替她做事了，给多少钱也不做！

——《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》

(3) She used to work for me, but our situations are now reversed.

过去她为我工作，而现在我们的地位对调了。

——《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》

(4) People are queueing up to work for me!

想为我效力的人可是排着长队呢！

——《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》

(5) The most important reason for coming to university is to work for a degree.

上大学最重要的原因就是要为拿学位尽力。

——《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》

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