1. 采用，采取，采纳，接受
2. 正式通过
3. 收养，领养
4. 吸收（外来词语）
5. 选定（职业、道路）
6. 【语】沿用
7. 挑选...为候选人，提名…为候选人，选举
8. 借用
9. 立嗣，过继
10. 使用
11. 引进
12. 实行
13. 移居
14. 承袭（风俗）
15. 选为必读课本
16. 承担保养公路的责任

1. vt. 收养 take the child of another person into one's family to become one's own child
2. vt. 采用,采纳,采取 take sth as one's own
3. vt. 正式接受,通过 accept formally or officially; approve

1. choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans;

   "She followed the feminist movement"
   "The candidate espouses Republican ideals"
   

2. take up and practice as one's own

3. take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities;

   "When will the new President assume office?"
   

4. take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect;

   "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;

   "They adopted two children from Nicaragua"
   

6. put into dramatic form;

   "adopt a book for a screenplay"
   

7. take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own;

   "She embraced Catholicism"
   "They adopted the Jewish faith"
   

1.采取；采纳；采用
If youadopt a new attitude, plan, or way of behaving, you begin to have it.

e.g. Parliament adopted a resolution calling for the complete withdrawal of troops...
议会采纳了要求全部撤军的决议。
e.g. Pupils should be helped toadopt a positive approach to the environment.
应帮助学生对环境采取积极的态度。

2.收养;领养
If youadopt someone else's child, you take it into your own family and make it legally your son or daughter.

e.g. There are hundreds of people desperate toadopt a child...
有数以百计的人渴望领养孩子。
e.g. The adopted child has the right to see his birth certificate.
被收养的孩子有权看自己的出生证明。

3.采用，保持（姿势）
If youadopt a physical position, you move yourself into it.

e.g. I tried toadopt a curled-up position to avoid damaging my limbs.
我努力保持蜷曲的姿势以免四肢受伤。

4.移居（某国）;选择（某国）定居
If youadopt a country, you choose it as a place to live.

e.g. Podulski had joined the U.S. Navy as an aviator, adopting a new country and a new profession.
波度尔斯基加入美国海军当上了飞行员，不仅改了国籍还换了行当。
e.g. ...their adopted home in England.
他们移居英国的家

5.采用（语气、口音等）
If youadopt an accent or a particular tone of voice, you speak differently from normal, especially to create an effect in a particular situation.

e.g. He has adopted the accent of a Second World War newscaster...
他承袭了二战时期播音员的口音。
e.g. The girl was uncertain what to do, or what tone of voice toadopt.
女孩不知道该做什么，也不知道该用什么口气说。

1. 采用：校本课程开发把课程开发的场所界定在学校,就意味着学校不只是采用(adopt)课程,而要调适(adapt)课程. 不仅课程方案制订是一个不断对话的修正过程,课程方案的实施也是在独特复杂情境中的教和学的过程,

2. 收养：收养表示贺家主动自愿地放弃作父母的权力,但贺家从未有任何意向让人收养(adopt)贺梅. 事实上,最初当贺家表示接受教堂帮助时,有一对想要孩子但没有的白人夫妇提出要收养贺梅,但被拒绝了. 对这一点,BAKER家是非常清楚的.

3. 接受：但此前协议的各方不是一定要接受(adopt)该议定书,所以有时候它标明为任择议定书(optional protocol),特别是原条约下的多方都不接受的情况下. 例如<>(Kyoto Protocol)是对<>(United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change/UNFCCC)的补充规定.

1. Many childless couples adopt children.
   许多无子女的夫妇收养孩子。
2. He told his neighbours that he had adopted me.
   他向邻居说他已收我为养子。
3. The family adopted a puppy.
   这家人收养了一条小狗。
4. I'll adopt her in my school.
   我将录用她到我的学校。
5. I like your methods of teaching and I shall adopt them in my school.
   我喜欢你的教学方法,我将在我的学校内采用。
6. To achieve these ends, we must adopt the above mentioned measures.
   要达到这些目的,我们必须采取上述措施。
7. The factories have adopted the newest modern technology.
   那几家工厂采用了现代的最新技术。
8. We're willing to adopt your plan.
   我们愿意采纳你的计划。
9. We have adopted a course different from theirs.
   我们采取了一种和他们不同的行动方针。
10. Were we to adopt this view, we would isolate ourselves.
    如果我们采取这种观点,我们就会陷于孤立。
11. After going to France he soon adopted the French way of life.
    他去法国后,很快就接受了法国的生活方式。
12. The school must adopt new methods of teaching foreign languages.
    学校必须采取教授外国语的新方法。
13. You should always adopt an attitude of deference before your superiors.
    在长者面前应该经常保持尊敬的态度。
14. In 1971 Britain also adopted the decimal system.1971
    年,英国也采用了十进制。
15. The House adopted the report.
    众议院通过了这个报告。
16. The meeting adopted a resolution.
    会议通过了一项议案。
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17. I was adopted as a baby, and never knew my real parents.
    我还是个婴儿时就被抱来了,从不知道我的生身父母是谁。
18. His proposal was adopted by the committee.
    他的建议被委员会采纳。

adopt as (v. + prep.)

选某人为… choose sb as (a representative, etc.)

be adopted into (v. + prep.)

被…所收养 be taken into one's family as a relation by sb/sth

be adopted from (v. + prep.)

选自…,取自… choose or take sth from some place

• I had rather to adopt a child than get it.

  出自：Othello,Shakespeare

• Those whom he happens to adopt as favourites.

  出自：S. Johnson

1. adopt的基本意思是将属于别人的东西化为己有,如收养他人的孩子,采纳他人的建议等。
2. adopt是及物动词,接名词或代词作宾语。作“采用,采纳,采取”解时,后面常接方法、方针、步骤、政策、意见、态度、计划之类的名词; 作“正式通过或接受”解时,后面常接报告、议案、决议、方案、计划之类的名词。

• ☆ 1540年左右进入英语，直接源自法语的adopter；最初源自拉丁语的adoptare，意为有选择的采取。