adopt
- v. 收养；采取，采纳，接受；正式通过；选定（名字），承袭（风俗）；移居，定居；提名（某人）为候选人；保持（姿势）；<英>（地方当局）承担（道路）维修保养责任
[ 第三人称单数 adopts 现在分词 adopting 过去式 adopted 过去分词 adopted ]
英英释义
adopt [ ə'dɔpt ]
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v.
- choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans
- take up and practice as one's own
- take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities
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take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect
"he adopted an air of superiority"
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take into one's family
"They adopted two children from Nicaragua"
同义词： take in
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put into dramatic form
"adopt a book for a screenplay"
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take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own
"They adopted the Jewish faith"
以上来源于: WordNet
柯林斯英汉双解大词典
adopt /əˈdɒpt/ CET4 TEM4 ( adopting, adopted, adopts )
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V-T If you adopt a new attitude, plan, or way of behaving, you begin to have it. 采纳; 采用
例：The United Nations General Assembly has adopted a resolution calling on all parties in the conflict to seek a political settlement.
联合国大会已采纳了一项呼吁所有冲突各方寻求政治解决的决议。
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2.
adoption N-UNCOUNT 采纳; 采用
例：The group is working to promote the adoption of broadband wireless access over long distances.
该集团正在致力于推广远距离宽带无线访问的采用。
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V-T/V-I If you adopt someone else's child, you take it into your own family and make it legally your son or daughter. 收养
例：There are hundreds of people desperate to adopt a child.
有数以百计的人极其渴望收养小孩。
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adoption N-VAR 收养
例：They gave their babies up for adoption.
他们放弃了自己的婴儿让别人收养。
双语例句原声例句权威例句
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In no way am I going to adopt any of his methods.
我决不会采用他的任何一个方法。
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There is little or no incentive to adopt such measures.
几乎或根本没有鼓励来采取这样的措施。
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There are hundreds of people desperate to adopt a child.
有数以百计的人极其渴望收养小孩。
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Americans can also adopt a burro removed from the wild by the Bureau of Land Management, a federal agency.
VOA: special.2010.02.16
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It's in this period that Milton increasingly begins to adopt, or assume, Saint Peter's confident and denunciatory rhetoric.
就是在这段时间弥尔顿越来越接受，去采用，圣彼得的有信心的责难似的语言。
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His own mother will volunteer to be his nurse, and Pharaoh's daughter will eventually adopt him and name his Moses: again, this is an Egyptian name.
而他的亲身母亲则会自愿当他的奶妈，法老的女儿最终会收养他，给他命名“摩西“,再说一次，这是一个埃及名字。
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