They seem to be in a terrible hurry to be grown-up, to have grown-up respect paid to them, at the same time that they resent the group they most want to be part of----a not uncommon human condition.
他们似乎十分急于长大成人,要人们像对待成年人那样尊敬他们;然而他们要加入成人的集团,却又憎恶这个集团----这倒也并非不近人情。