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VERB
采取；采納；采用
If you adopt a new attitude, plan, or way of behaving, you begin to have it.
例句
Parliament adopted a resolution calling for the complete withdrawal of troops...
議會采納了要求全部撤軍的決議。
Pupils should be helped to adopt a positive approach to the environment.
應幫助學生對環(huán)境采取積極的態(tài)度。
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VERB
收養(yǎng);領(lǐng)養(yǎng)
If you adopt someone else's child, you take it into your own family and make it legally your son or daughter.
例句
There are hundreds of people desperate to adopt a child...
有數(shù)以百計的人渴望領(lǐng)養(yǎng)孩子。
The adopted child has the right to see his birth certificate.
被收養(yǎng)的孩子有權(quán)看自己的出生證明。
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VERB
采用，保持（姿勢）
If you adopt a physical position, you move yourself into it.
例句
I tried to adopt a curled-up position to avoid damaging my limbs.
我努力保持蜷曲的姿勢以免四肢受傷。
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VERB
移居（某國）;選擇（某國）定居
If you adopt a country, you choose it as a place to live.
例句
Podulski had joined the U.S. Navy as an aviator, adopting a new country and a new profession.
波度爾斯基加入美國海軍當上了飛行員，不僅改了國籍還換了行當。
...their adopted home in England.
他們移居英國的家
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VERB
采用（語氣、口音等）
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.
例句
He has adopted the accent of a Second World War newscaster...
他承襲了二戰(zhàn)時期播音員的口音。
The girl was uncertain what to do, or what tone of voice to adopt.
女孩不知道該做什么，也不知道該用什么口氣說。