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VERB
采取；采纳；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...
议会采纳了要求全部撤军的决议。
Pupils should be helped to adopt a positive approach to the environment.
应帮助学生对环境采取积极的态度。
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VERB
收养;领养
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...
有数以百计的人渴望领养孩子。
The adopted child has the right to see his birth certificate.
被收养的孩子有权看自己的出生证明。
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VERB
采用，保持（姿势）
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势以免四肢受伤。
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VERB
移居（某国）;选择（某国）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.
波度尔斯基加入美国海军当上了飞行员，不仅改了国籍还换了行当。
...their adopted home in England.
他们移居英国的家
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VERB
采用（语气、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...
他承袭了二战时期播音员的口音。
The girl was uncertain what to do, or what tone of voice to adopt.
女孩不知道该做什么，也不知道该用什么口气说。