Adopt

[ə'dɒpt] or [ə'dɑpt]

解釋/意思:

(verb.) take into one's family; 'They adopted two children from Nicaragua'.

(verb.) take up and practice as one's own.

(verb.) choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans; 'She followed the feminist movement'; 'The candidate espouses Republican ideals'.

伊桑錄入--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) 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.

珍宁校對

同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. [1]. Appropriate, take to one's self, take or select as one's own.[2]. Approve, espouse, support, maintain.[3]. Affiliate, father, treat as one's own child.

迭戈手打

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Assume, select, affiliate, take, elect, arrogate, choose, endorse, avow,appropriate

ANT:Reject, decline, repudiate, disavow, discard, renounce, abandon, disown,disclaim

柏格編輯

解釋/意思:

v.t. to choose: to take up or embrace: to take into any relationship: to take as one's own what is another's as a child &c.—ns. Adop′tianism an 8th-century heresy akin to Nestorianism that Christ in respect of his divine nature was doubtless the Son of God; but that as to his human nature he was only declared and adopted to be the first-born Son of God; Adop′tion the act of adopting: the state of being adopted: assumption: the taking into one language of words from another: formal acceptance: choice: (theol.) an act of divine grace by which the redeemed in Christ are admitted to the privileges of the sons of God.—adjs. Adop′tious (Shak.) adopted; Adopt′ive that adopts or is adopted.

亨廷顿編輯