Mature

(verb.) develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation; 'He matured fast'; 'The child grew fast'.

(verb.) become due for repayment; 'These bonds mature in 2005'.

(verb.) develop and work out fully in one's mind; 'I need to mature my thoughts'.

(adj.) fully considered and perfected; 'mature plans' .

(adj.) having reached full natural growth or development; 'a mature cell' .

(adj.) characteristic of maturity; 'mature for her age' .

艾伦校对

• Such is the mature fruit. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• He thought of Rachael, how young when they were first brought together in these circumstances, how mature now, how soon to grow old. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• That this cannot take place in modes, is evident from considering their mature. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• It was the final and culminating grace of a mature experience of life. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• My intention was then formed, but not mature for communication. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Must we continue to muddle along in the old ruts, gazing rapturously at an impotent ideal, until the works of the scientists are matured? 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Inform me at the earliest practicable day of the time when you will embark, and such plans as may then be matured. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• And now, Adeimantus, is our State matured and perfected? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• But this beauty serves merely as a guide to birds and beasts, in order that the fruit may be devoured and the matured seeds disseminated. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• In the fall of 1892 I moved to Kokomo, and the following summer I had my plans sufficiently matured to begin the actual construction of a machine. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• As it reaches its full size it _matures_, it begins to produce young, which are either born alive or hatched from eggs. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I have eight or ten similar cases maturing. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• On the other hand, there are those who see him only as a wrecker of the slowly maturing possibilities of a free and tranquil Hellenized world. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Seven tons consisted of a large, late maturing yellow dent corn (Leaming), which had been planted May 28, 1887. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• Mindful of his own lack of facilities for acquiring an education, his greatest desire in maturer years was for the education of his children. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Glaucon has more of the liveliness and quick sympathy of youth; Adeimantus has the maturer judgment of a grown-up man of the world. 柏拉图. 理想国.

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