0 the act of legally taking a child to be taken care of as your own -- 领养,收养
1 accepting or starting to use something new -- 接受;采用;采纳
Several suggestions have been offered for adoption by the panel. 总共提出了几种建议以供专家小组采纳。
2 choosing or taking something as your own -- 选择
The adoption of a woman candidate was seen as controversial. 选择一位女候选人被视为一件很有争议的事。
More than 60% conducted independent trials with one or more technologies, with 50% of these trials resulting in permanent adoptions.
However, conflicts over surrogacy contracts, and even over traditional adoptions, have demonstrated the limits of contracts in predicting the parties' emotional responses to the resulting child.
In raising the implications for policy, we will not presume to explicate all of the overlapping, diverging, and conflicting concerns of the constituents in international adoptions.
Romanian adoptions in a worldwide context.
We must aim for the same high level of protection and benefits for the child as in domestic adoptions.
There we were given guarantees that the adoptions were to go ahead and, moreover, that they were going to introduce all the legislation needed.
From 21,000 adoptions 20 years ago, the figure was down to less than 6,000 last year.
Most intercountry adoptions go through the proper channels.