動詞 adopt:

1. choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans
   同義詞：adopt, follow, espouse
2. take up and practice as one's own
   同義詞：adopt, borrow, take over, take up
3. take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities
   同義詞：assume, adopt, take on, take over
4. take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect
   同義詞：assume, acquire, adopt, take on, take
5. take into one's family
   同義詞：adopt, take in
6. put into dramatic form
   同義詞：dramatize, dramatise, adopt
7. take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own
   同義詞：espouse, embrace, adopt, sweep up

形容詞 adopted:

1. acquired as your own by free choice
   同義詞：adoptive
2. having been taken into a specific relationship

1. He is their adopted son.
   他是他們的養(yǎng)子。
2. He's not our natural son we adopted him when he was three.
   他不是我們的親兒子－－他三歲時我們領(lǐng)養(yǎng)的。
3. New methods of teaching foreign languages are adopted in this institute.
   該學(xué)院采用新的外語教學(xué)法。
4. As they had no children of their own, they adopted an orphan.
   他們沒有親生兒女，就收養(yǎng)了一個孤兒。
5. The government adopted an uncompromising posture on the issue of independence.
   政府在獨立的問題上采取了毫不妥協(xié)的態(tài)度。
6. A member of the left-wing majority group of the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party that adopted Lenin's theses on party organization in1903.
   布爾什維克俄國社會民主工人黨占多數(shù)派的左翼成員，該黨于1903年接受了列寧建黨理論
7. As a rule of thumb, a one-cent-a-gallon gasoline tax raises$1 billion. Oil producers in President-elect Bush's adopted state of Texas, however, would rather see a tax on imported crude oil.
   一般情形是，每加侖加汽油一分錢的稅可以征收10億元?？墒牵诓际驳诙亦l(xiāng)德克薩斯州的產(chǎn)油商寧愿看見在進口原油上征稅。
8. The babies, Carolina and Pablo, grew into bright and healthy children, ... By some accounts, they knew they were adopted. By all accounts, they were lovingly cared for.
   嬰兒卡羅萊娜跟巴卜羅長成又聰明又健康的兒童 ... 據(jù)某些人說，他們知道他們是被收養(yǎng)的。據(jù)所有的人說，他們有受到疼愛與照顧。