0 to legally take another person's child into your own family and take care of him or her as your own child -- 收養；領養
2 to choose someone or something or take something as your own -- 選定；選用；採用
Roz has adopted one or two funny mannerisms since she's been away. 羅茲自她離開後養成了一兩種可笑的怪癖。
Dr Kennedy has been adopted as the party's candidate for South Cambridge. 甘迺迪博士被選定為該黨南劍橋地區的候選人。
The latter are still in use, but have been adopted exclusively by members of the political class and business people.
In adopting such self-reliant approaches, entrepreneurship, a sense of pride, self-fulfilment and achievement are evident among community members.
She argues that care is needed to avoid primary-age children being encouraged into adopting an adult-style learning approach, which they are too immature to handle.
A key par t of this "strengthening" movement was to unify the nation by adopting one language as the standard.
The use of only revolute and prismatic pairs is adopted by reason of their genericity and technological implementation.
In principle this was much like multi-pillar systems that have recently been adopted in other countries around the world.
The 1998 table is similar to the new table that was adopted in 2004 for men but overstates mortality for women.
The procedure adopted by the practice for communicating test results involved direct communication of screen-positive results only.
