| 词组 | adult |
| 释义 | adult 1. Both the end-stressed pronunciation, \\\\ ə -'dəlt\\\\, and the fore-stressed version, \\\\'ad- əlt\\\\, are perfectly acceptable, whether the word is used as an adjective or as a noun. \\\\ə -'dəlt\\\\ seems somewhat more prevalent in the U.S., and especially so as an adjective; \\\\'ad-,ǝlt\\\\ is the form currently recommended in England. 2. Copperud 1980 describes adult as "the current euphemism for pornographic." Howard 1977 writes "what seedy cinemas and pornographic publishers describe as 'adult' is in fact childishly prurient." The sense has been recognized in dictionaries. |
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