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 adopt [ə'dɔpt]   添加此单词到默认生词本
vt. 采用, 正式通过, 收养, 接受

[医] 采取


  1. As they had no children of their own, they adopted an orphan.
    他们没有亲生儿女，就收养了一个孤儿。
  2. Most countries adopt metric system.
    大多数国家采用米制。
  3. We should adopt the consumers' suggestion.
    我们应该接受用户的建议。


adopt
[ verb ]
  1. choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans

    2. <verb.possession> espouse follow
    She followed the feminist movement
    The candidate espouses Republican ideals
  2. take up and practice as one's own

    3. <verb.possession>     borrow take over take up
  3. take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities

    4. <verb.social>     assume take on take over
    When will the new President assume office?
  4. take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect

    5. <verb.change>     acquire assume take take on
    His voice took on a sad tone
    The story took a new turn
    he adopted an air of superiority
    She assumed strange manners
    The gods assume human or animal form in these fables
  5. take into one's family

    6. <verb.change>     take in
    They adopted two children from Nicaragua
  6. put into dramatic form

    7. <verb.creation>     dramatise dramatize
    adopt a book for a screenplay
  7. take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own

    8. <verb.cognition>     embrace espouse sweep up
    She embraced Catholicism
    They adopted the Jewish faith


Adopt \A*dopt"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Adopted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Adopting}.] [L. adoptare; ad + optare to choose, desire: cf.
F. adopter. See {Option}.]
1. To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir,
friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child
of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own
child.

2. To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally;
to select and take or approve; as, to adopt the view or
policy of another; these resolutions were adopted.

  1. Only if we adopt a very low level indeed.
  2. The Senate Judiciary Committee cleared legislation requiring each federal trial court to adopt a plan for cutting costs and delays.
  3. He was desperate to find a replacement for the mother he'd lost, but the people who stepped in to care for him would always keep him at a distance, even refusing to officially adopt him.
  4. The IAAO's Mr. Eckert hopes states soon will adopt licensing laws and tougher regulations dealing with this growing industry.
  5. The Constitution mandates that the Philippines adopt a policy of freedom from nuclear weapons "consistent with the national interest," but legal experts say the phrase falls short of an outright ban.
  6. It's not just words." Yeltsin, in the television interview recorded Thursday, said his reformist forces have only a shaky majority and said he might have to turn directly to the people if parliament failed to adopt his radical measures.
  7. However, that ruling left the political parties free to adopt any rules they want restricting themselves.
  8. Petrovsky also said the international community should adopt binding principles and rules of behavior.
  9. Bush said Saturday he would veto the bill today, declaring it would force businesses to adopt hiring and promotion quotas to ward off lawsuits.
  10. But such arguments are dismissed by those wanting change. "Why should people here be less able to adopt democracy than elsewhere?" asks Abdulnabi Al Sho'ala, a prominent Bahraini businessman.
  11. California regulators are expected to adopt today a telephone rate change that would allow Pacific Telesis Group to earn higher profits by operating more efficiently.
  12. Mackin said that if he isn't hired, he hopes to at least to force the department to adopt a "color-blind" hiring policy.
  13. The day was saved only when workers voted to adopt a "team concept" approach to their work.
  14. However, since the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989, pressure has been building in Congress to adopt a less conciliatory policy.
  15. Steve Carroll, 30, called the baby a "a gift from heaven" and said that he hopes he and his wife can adopt him.
  16. He concludes, however, that our employers will not, indeed cannot, change; therefore the education system must continue to bail them out. The UK cannot afford to adopt such a defeatist stance.
  17. Thus, the West shouldn't reward Moscow if it won't adopt fundamental free-market reforms, says Vladimir Dlouhy, the Czechoslovak minister of the economy.
  18. The turmoil at Cleveland-Cliffs erupted earlier this year when the company proposed a public offering of four million shares of common stock and said it would adopt a shareholders rights plan.
  19. Because of the rule's flexibility, financial analysts say investors will have a hard time comparing companies that adopt early or wait until 1993, take the one-time hit or spread the impact over 20 years.
  20. "We want to adopt a son," the 51-year-old designer said in an interview in this week's People magazine.
  21. What's more, in at least one instance since the Indiana law was upheld, a target company still had to adopt other defenses against an unwanted suitor.
  22. Lech Walesa _ whose Solidarity trade union helped force the government to adopt sweeping, democratic reforms _ said today his supporters want him to run for the newly created post of president.
  23. EPA in 1986 sought public comment on whether to do nothing, to uphold the institute's recommendation, or to adopt a standard five or 10 times as strict.
  24. In addition, regulators said their initial reporting requirement had forced banks to adopt the internal controls necessary to prevent them from making too many risky loans to highly leveraged borrowers.
  25. I can't afford to poison the well." The government also is beginning to require farmers on hilly land to adopt conservation techniques if they wish to continue receiving price-support payments.
  26. France, to get the council to act as soon as possible, pushed for the Security Council to adopt a statement rather than a stronger, binding resolution, said diplomats who spoke on condition of anonymity.
  27. Politics don't interest her until they interfere with her desire to adopt a child she's fallen in love with, the daughter of a neighboring Jewish officer who was taken away one night.
  28. Under the rigid conventions imposed on composers of music for the Russian Orthodox Church, Tchaikovsky was required to adopt a style far removed from that of his worldly self.
  29. "It's my suggestion that the comrades adopt a decision that the same person should not be leading the party and the state at the same time," he said.
  30. He moves from the CBI, where he has been working as southern regional director since late 1990. The UK Industrial Group was launched one year ago with the aim of lobbying central government to adopt a more interventionist attitude towards industry.
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