adopt的意思是什么

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.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。

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

• ☆ 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。