We kids would be sitting around or playing hide-and-seek under the table while the grown-ups were having a discussion .
当大人们在谈论时，我们小孩儿会坐在桌子旁或在桌子底下玩捉迷藏。
Severn's questions were a challenge to the world's leaders—questions about why the grown-ups who run the world don't take more care of it and of the people who live in it.
珊文提出的问题是对世界领导人们的一个挑战——为什么掌管世界的成年人不更加关心世界和生活在世界上的人们。
The grown-ups put treat-money or candy in their bags.
大人们就会把用来招待的钱或糖放在他们的袋子里了。
But as a child, he was always putting on plays for the grown-ups.
但是作为一个孩子的时候，他总是把戏剧为大人了。
The grown-ups applauded after the children had finished their performance.
孩子们表演完后，大人们鼓掌。
Lots of what the grown-ups tell them is true and based on evidence, or at least sensible.
大人告诉他们的很多东西是真的，并且是基于证据的，或者至少是通情达理的。
I showed my masterpiece to the grown-ups, and asked them whether the drawing frightened them.
我把自己的杰作拿给大人们看，并问他们害不害怕。
There had been several sudden and unexplained deaths, not only among the grown-ups, but even among children.
在成年人中，甚至在孩子们中，曾经发生了几起突然而莫名其妙的死亡。
I can remember summer nights when we'd put down what we called the Baptist pallet, and we listened to the grown-ups talk.
我能够记得，当夏天的时候，我们就放下我们叫约翰洗礼的盘然后去听成年人的讲话。
The only message the little girl received through the grown-ups' response was that they had a lot of fear when it came to talking about death.
这个女孩从大人的反应中得到的唯一信息是，在谈到死亡时他们对死都很害怕。
If I have told you these details about the asteroid, and made a note of its number for you, it is on account of the grown-ups and their ways.
正是由于这些大人，我记下了这个小行星的编号并给你们讲述了这个小行星故事，这是他们的行事方式。
Desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, to get your own back on the grown-ups who snubbed you in childhood, etc.
希望看起来精明一点、成为谈论对象、死后留名、在童年时瞧不起你的人面前一雪前耻，等等等等。
The grown-ups discouraged me in my painter's career when I was six years old, and I never learned to draw anything, except boas from the outside and boas from the inside.
这不是我的过错。六岁时，大人们使我对我的画家生涯失去了勇气，除了画过开着肚皮和闭着肚皮的蟒蛇，后来再没有学过画。
The grown-ups discouraged me in my painter's career when I was six years old, and I never learned to draw anything, except boas from the outside and boas from the inside.
六岁时，大人们使我对我的画家生涯失去了勇气，除了画过开着肚 皮和闭着肚皮的蟒蛇，后来再没有学过画。
It's all comedy: making one another laugh matters more than providing useful updates about ourselves, which is why entirely phony profiles were all the rage before the grown-ups signed in.
这全都是喜剧：让其他人开怀一笑比提供关于自己的有用的更新更重要，这也是为什么在成年人注册以前虚假的言辞会引起愤怒。
If you were to say to the grown-ups: "I saw a beautiful house made of rosy brick, with geraniums in the Windows and doves on the roof," they would not be able to get any idea of that house at all.
如果你对大人们说：“我看到一幢用玫瑰色的砖盖成的漂亮的房子，它的窗户上有天竺葵，屋顶上还有鸽子……”他们怎么也想象不出这种房子有多么好。
The annual jab fest for the seasonal flu is already underway, leaving many grown-ups wondering if the annual stick in the arm is right for them.
一年一度的季节性流感疫苗注射已经开始了，让许多成年人开始怀疑每年一次的流感疫苗注射是否适合他们。
It is not just the young, grown-ups have the same problem.
不仅仅是年轻人，成年人也有同样的问题。
It opens with the reminder: All grown-ups were once children but few of them remember it.
书的开头提醒道：所有的成年人都曾是孩子，但很少有人记得这件事。
In many countries, it happens on your 18th birthday, but in some parts of the world, you have to do something special to enter the world of grown-ups.
在许多国家，这发生在你18岁生日那天，但在世界的某些地方，你必须做一些特别的事情才能进入成人的世界。
Claire organized a group of kids and grown-ups who set to work raising the rest.
克莱尔组织了一群孩子和大人开始筹集剩下的款项。
I like the main living areas of our home to feel like grown ups live here and not just little people.
我喜欢去感受家里的主客厅，因为这个会让我感受到他们正在长大，而不单单还是一个小孩子。
Many of the children Ms Evans sees do not want to talk at all, regarding grown-ups as untrustworthy or irrelevant.
埃文斯女士发现，许多孩子压根就不想讲话，他们认为，成年人都不可靠或者与己无关。
Most of us were brought up in a culture of apology: children must say sorry when they do something wrong and grown-ups must apologize if they bump into each other in the street.
大部分人都在道歉文化中成长：孩子们必须说对不起当他们做错事情，大人们必须道歉如果他们在路上撞到别人。
Most of us were brought up in a culture of apology: children must say sorry when they do something wrong and grown-ups must apologize if they bump into each other in the street.
大部分人都在道歉文化中成长：孩子们必须说对不起当他们做错事情，大人们必须道歉如果他们在路上撞到别人。
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