adopt
v. 领养; 采用; 正式通过; 移居; 承袭; 提名为候选人
If you adopt a new attitude, plan, or way of behaving, you begin to have it.
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。
Pupils should be helped to adopt a positive approach to the environment.
应帮助学生对环境采取积极的态度。
If you adopt someone else's child, you take it into your own family and make it legally your son or daughter.
There are hundreds of people desperate to adopt a child...
有数以百计的人渴望领养孩子。
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。
If you adopt a physical position, you move yourself into it.
I tried to adopt 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。
If you adopt a country, you choose it as a place to live.
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。
...their adopted home in England.
他们移居英国的家
If you adopt an accent or a particular tone of voice, you speak differently from normal, especially to create an effect in a particular situation.
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。
The girl was uncertain what to do, or what tone of voice to adopt.
女孩不知道该做什么,也不知道该用什么口气说。
1. choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans;
2. take up and practice as one's own
3. take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities;
4. take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect;
5. take into one's family;
6. put into dramatic form;
7. take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own;
I move that we adopt the agenda as It'stands.
我提议不作改变通过这个议程.
Ensure that the General Assembly adopt a resolution not less strong than those passed at the previous sessions.
争取联大通过的决议基调不低于去年.
Circumstances force us to adopt this policy.
形势迫使我们采取这项政策.
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.
We need to adopt a more pragmatic approach.
我们需要采用一种更为实际的方法.