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单词 accept
释义 ac·cept
\ikˈsept, ak- also ək- or ek-\ verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: Middle English accepten, from Middle French accepter, from Latin acceptare, freq. of accipere to take, receive, accept, perceive, explain, undertake, from ad- + -cipere (from capere to take) — more at heave
transitive verb
1. obsolete : to treat with partiality or favoritism
 < God accepteth no man's person — Gal 2:6 (Authorized Version) >
2.
 a. : to receive with consent (something given or offered)
  < accepted the medal >
  : assent to the receipt of
  < accepted lower wages than the native workers >
 b. : to be able to take or hold or be designed to take or hold (something applied, affixed, or impressed)
  < a glazed surface that will not accept ink >
3. : to give admittance to (as into one's company or into a particular group)
 < the town's best families accepted her >
: give approval to
 < those people will never accept abstract sculpture >
4.
 a. : to take without protest : endure or tolerate with patience
  < queueing is one aspect of English life he will never wholly acceptLondon Calling >
 b. : to regard as proper, suitable, or normal
  < it came to be accepted that there should be universal education >
  : acknowledge or recognize as appropriate, permissible, or inevitable : agree to
  < refused to accept the dangerous working conditions — P.E.James >
 c. : to regard and hold as true : believe in
  < by accepting the proposition that all men are created equal >
 d. : to receive into the mind : understand
  < words mean … what we accept them as meaning — J.L.Lowes >
5.
 a. : to make an affirmative or favorable response to (as an invitation or offer)
  < accepting an invitation to speak >
  : undertake the responsibility of (as a task or employment)
  < if he accepts a junior partnership in the firm >
 b. : to allow (a train) onto the particular section of a line under local control — used of a block operator in the manual block-signal system
6. : to assume orally, in writing, or by conduct an obligation to pay
 < accepting a bill of exchange >
7. of a deliberative body : to receive (a report) officially (as from a committee)
8. : to be sexually responsive to; especially : to allow to mount and copulate — usually used of a female domestic mammal
intransitive verb
: to receive favorably something offered — usually used with of
 < no person … shall … accept of any present — U.S. Constitution >
Synonyms: see receive

- accept service
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