英语释义
1. to take by choice into a relationship especially to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) as one's own child
2. to take up and practice or use
adopted a moderate tone
3. to accept formally and put into effect
adopt a constitutional amendment
4. to choose (a textbook) for required study in a course
5. to sponsor the care and maintenance of
adopt a highway
6. to adopt a child
couples choosing to adopt
7. to take a child of other parents legally as your own child
8. to begin to use or have (a different manner, method, etc.)
9. to begin to use (a name that is not your real or original name)
10. to legally take a child of other parents to raise
11. to take up as someone's own
After moving to Quebec, he adopted French as his language.
12. to accept and put into action
The state adopted a law requiring drivers to wear seat belts.
13. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) as one's own child especially in compliance with formal legal procedures — see also equitable adoption
14. to take or accept as if one's own
[the company] adopted the signature on the financing statement
— Barber-Greene Co. v. Nat'l City Bank of Minneapolis, 816 F.2d 1267 (1987)