| 单词 | mature |
| 释义 | mature (mətjʊəʳ ) Word forms: matures , maturing , matured , maturer , maturest 1. verb When a child or young animal matures, it becomes an adult. You will learn what to expect as your child matures physically. [VERB] The eggs hatched and the chicks matured. [VERB] ...young girls who'd not yet matured. [VERB] Synonyms: develop, grow up, bloom, blossom 2. verb When something matures, it reaches a state of complete development. When the trees matured they were cut in certain areas. [VERB] Their songwriting has matured. [VERB] Synonyms: evolve, develop, improve, grown 3. verb If someone matures, they become more fully developed in their personality and emotional behaviour. Hopefully after three years at university I will have matured. [VERB] I thought you had matured enough not to be giggly and silly about serious art. [VERB] Synonyms: become a responsible adult, grow up 4. adjective B2 If you describe someone as mature, you think that they are fully developed and balanced in their personality and emotional behaviour. [approval] They are emotionally mature and should behave responsibly. You and I are mature, freethinking adults. 5. graded adjective [ADJECTIVE noun] If you describe the work of an artist, writer, or musician as mature, you mean that it is thoughtful and skilful and shows that their abilities have fully developed. [approval] It is his most mature comedy yet. 6. verb If something such as wine or cheese matures or is matured, it is left for a time to allow its full flavour or strength to develop. Unlike wine, brandy matures only in wood, not glass. [VERB] ...the cellars where the cheeses are matured. [be VERB-ed] ...our best selling matured cheddar. [VERB-ed] Synonyms: age, season, perfect, mellow 7. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] Mature cheese or wine has been left for a time to allow its full flavour or strength to develop. Grate some mature cheddar cheese. ...the best place to enjoy fine, mature wines. 8. verb When an investment such as a savings policy or pension plan matures, it reaches the stage when you stop paying money and the company pays you back the money you have saved, and the interest your money has earned. [business] These bonuses will be paid when your savings plan matures in ten years' time. [VERB] ...an endowment policy that matured on September 1. [VERB] 9. adjective If you say that someone is mature or of mature years, you are saying politely that they are middle-aged or old. [politeness] ...a man of mature years. Collocations: brain matures As the brain matures, the emotional and sensory areas of the brain develop based upon the quality of attachment. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 As the brain matures, the relative number of silent synapses decreases. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 As the brain matures, certain areas (usually within the frontal lobes) exert an inhibitory effect thus causing the reflex to disappear. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 You get your initial investment back when the debt matures, unless the corporation or government fails in the meantime. Times, Sunday Times The company has 300 lenders and most of its debt matures in 2014. Times, Sunday Times Some $15 billion of government debt matures this year. Times, Sunday Times They are entitled to take out another 6m a year until 2017, when all of the debt matures. Times, Sunday Times It thinks 400m would be enough to cure covenant breaches on its 3.2 billion loans until the debt matures in 2014. Times, Sunday Times The 21-year-old managed just two goals during his three-month stay even if he impressed with his mature attitude. Times, Sunday Times His choice of cars reflects a new, mature attitude too. Times, Sunday Times Your life seems to be playing out in public this weekend but try not to panic, as your mature attitude will ensure you don't trip yourself up. The Sun As her position on the team solidifies, she becomes less excitable and exhibits a more responsible and mature attitude. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But as the industry has grown, increasingly large parts of it have adopted more mature attitudes to risk. Times, Sunday Times A mature democracy badly needs more than media frenzy. Times, Sunday Times But they may prove influential, in indicating how a mature democracy can manage economic crisis and make needed structural reforms. Times, Sunday Times We possess a mature democracy, with a robust respect for constitutional proprieties. Times, Sunday Times Direct elections are no panacea, no waving of a constitutional wand over the long-term problems of a mature democracy. Times, Sunday Times A mature democracy should be prepared to remain with the status quo until we reach as much of a national consensus as possible. Times, Sunday Times I only started becoming a rounded, mature individual a decade later. Times, Sunday Times A mature individual consists of up to a thousand cells that can be divided into four different cell types. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The skeleton has been presumed to have belonged to an almost mature individual. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The skeleton has been presumed to have belonged to an almost mature individual, because it lacks sutures on vertebrae, but not on pelvic material. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A fully mature individual harlequin rasbora attains a standard length of two inches (5 cm). Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 You just grow up and mature mentally so it was just a matter of time. The Sun He's matured mentally, which we wanted, and physically he's done well. The Sun As the band members matured mentally and musically, so did their songs. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Fortunately, the mature oak still had a thick enough canopy to shelter me when a sharp shower broke. Times, Sunday Times Ström designed a flat-roofed building that slots into the land and works around seven mature oak trees. Times,Sunday Times Only mature oak and walnut trees are harvested. Times, Sunday Times And as will, no doubt, a new pathogen of oak, acute oak decline, seemingly caused by a bacterial infection of mature oak trees. Times, Sunday Times One mature oak will shed 50,000 acorns. Times, Sunday Times She's obviously a very talented athlete, she moves very well, and she's very mature physically and mentally out there. Times,Sunday Times But when she began to mature physically, he felt ill at ease and began to withdraw. Christianity Today Youngsters seem to mature physically earlier. Times, Sunday Times I need to mature physically as my career goes in a new direction he says. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Today both are far more formidable beasts, having matured physically and mentally. The Sun The good ones get better with age, the young ones, well, they mature quickly. Times, Sunday Times Fracking continues to mature quickly, aided by technology development that has contributed to reductions in well costs of about 20 per cent in the past year. Times, Sunday Times As the floods retreat each year, a variety of crops (including millet, sorghum, rice, and vegetables) are sown, and they grow and mature quickly. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 After their eyes open at 14 to 16 days old, they mature quickly. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They mature quickly and are able to live life without the help of someone else. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Perhaps, on mature reflection, he would take a different view. Times, Sunday Times But someday she'd like to write a more meditative, mature reflection on her past. Times, Sunday Times On mature reflection it was not so unlucky. Times, Sunday Times We say things that have little to do with what we might say in public, after mature reflection. Times, Sunday Times But, unlike the clarinet, the flute has a tough time sounding autumnal and mellow; and these sonatas, works of old age, are above all works of mature reflection. Times, Sunday Times In a mature relationship you ought to be able to express those fears. Times, Sunday Times You must be ready for a more mature relationship. The Sun The theme of the featured manga revolves around romance and mature relationships. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The gardens are home to ancient olive trees that still bear fruit, and mature shrubs and plants that flower vibrant colours in the summer months. Times, Sunday Times Mature shrubs can reach 4m x 4m or be wall-trained. Times,Sunday Times Moving large or mature shrubs ? Times, Sunday Times As well as a knot garden, borders with mature shrubs and floral beds, it has two kitchen gardens, a polytunnel, a herb patch and a shed. Times, Sunday Times Mature shrubs may be felled using a chainsaw or brush cutter, and the stumps treated with a commercial herbicide. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Most sharks are vulnerable to overfishing because they have few young and mature slowly. Times,Sunday Times Skin lesions mature slowly and by the seventh or eighth day they are flat and appear to be buried in the skin. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Foliage then matures slowly through light yellow to soft gold and then pale green. The Sun This giant breed matures slowly in both mind and body, taking anywhere from 2 to 3 years. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The breed matures slowly, and makes a poor meat producer. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 If you have a mature specimen that has reached this point, remove all the top growth, then new stems will regenerate from the base. Times, Sunday Times You get five reception rooms, six bedrooms and an additional three-bedroom coach house; all in five acres with mature specimen trees and a large pond. Times, Sunday Times If watering might be a problem, but you need something instant, olives are now widely available: a mature specimen makes an immediate impact. Times, Sunday Times In the average garden, there's often room for more than one tree, so, if you inherit a mature specimen, you may still be able to add another. Times, Sunday Times The argument runs that last season's champion two-year-old filly, who trades at 15-8 favourite with the sponsor, was a mature specimen. Times, Sunday Times Five of the 21 commissioners voted against the deal, arguing that as a mature technology, nuclear should not be subsidised. Times, Sunday Times At this time analog sound reproduction was a mature technology. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Deep-sea cables, no longer a heroic struggle against the elements, had become instead a mature technology and a serious business. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Galleys were a more mature technology with long-established tactics and traditions of supporting social institutions and naval organizations. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Since then, this measuring principle has been increasingly used and can be regarded as a mature technology with an outstanding inherent reliability. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 All the mature theme jokes were translated into childish ones. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Animated vikings-anddragons sequel that deals with unexpectedly mature themes. Times, Sunday Times Sure, it felt a little clunky, as you logged in, to be advised that 'live video programming may contain mature themes'. Times, Sunday Times The paperback edition was released in 2005 and deals with mature themes. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In contrast to the previous game, the game contained far less of the mature themes found in the original. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Her tone and her mature understanding of the music was exceptional. Times, Sunday Times So although the passage of time might blur the details, most of us need to emerge with a more mature understanding of what happened. Times, Sunday Times I had read it twice and had a more mature understanding of the holy book. Times, Sunday Times The remaining land support 20 hectares of mature woodland and 15 hectares in environmental schemes. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The habitat consists of old, mature woodland and parkland. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In several places the park opens up into open, lawned areas and features such as a hedge maze, a meadow, mature woodland and a wetland nature reserve. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 There are fine mature woodlands and a large variety of rhododendrons and azaleas. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The habitat consists of mature woodlands. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 成熟的, 发育成熟小孩、幼崽 Japanese: 成熟した, 大人になる |
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