| 单词 | adopt |
| 释义 | adopt 1. < a country glad to have them as adopted citizens > specifically < they adopted him as their sole heir > 2. a. (1) < one no longer adopts an idea unless it is driven in with hammers of statistics and columns of figures — Henry Adams > (2) < no proposal for curtailment of the Supreme Court power over legislation has ever been adopted — Felix Frankfurter > (3) < she had adopted a blend of sisterly authority and business brusqueness — William McFee > < a precaution which … he had adopted whenever he carried more than two or three shillings — Thomas Hardy > b. 3. of a deliberative body 4. Synonyms: < none seem to have yet adopted the utterly abominable European hat — Lafcadio Hearn > < Turkey … has adopted a Latin alphabet > < gave up old customs reluctantly, but once they had adopted a new one they found it impossible to understand why everyone else did not immediately do likewise — Edith Wharton > It may refer to an attitude or gesture taken or to a bill or measure passed or accepted formally < he noticed that now, far from looking glum, she had adopted a winning manner — Edith Sitwell > < Calhoun's address was adopted, the Whigs voting against it — R.P.Brooks > embrace may suggest ready, willing, or happy acceptance or reception of a belief or practice < born on Manhattan's poverty-ridden East Side, they embraced the Communist movement in their teens — New York Times > < “I hate inversions”, declared Tennyson — a statement which, I fear, will lead some of the modernists forthwith to embrace them — J.L.Lowes > espouse may indicate either genuine depth of attachment or lasting and participating acceptance and alliance < when … Gobineau's Essay was resuscitated from comparative oblivion and its dogmas passionately and popularly espoused — Ruth Benedict > < the spirit of uncompromising individualism that would eventually espouse the principle of democracy in church and state — V.L.Parrington > |
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