adoptions

英 [əˈdɒpʃ(ə)nz]

美 [əˈdɑpʃənz]

n.  收养; 领养; (想法、计划、名字等的)采用; (候选人的)选定，推选，推举
adoption的复数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 采取；采纳；采用
  If youadopta new attitude, plan, or way of behaving, you begin to have it.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。
• VERB 收养;领养
  If youadoptsomeone else's child, you take it into your own family and make it legally your son or daughter.
  1. There are hundreds of people desperate to adopt a child...
     有数以百计的人渴望领养孩子。
  2. 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。
• VERB 采用，保持（姿势）
  If youadopta physical position, you move yourself into it.
  1. 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。
• VERB 移居（某国）;选择（某国）定居
  If youadopta country, you choose it as a place to live.
  1. 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。
  2. ...their adopted home in England.
     他们移居英国的家
• VERB 采用（语气、口音等）
  If youadoptan accent or a particular tone of voice, you speak differently from normal, especially to create an effect in a particular situation.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。

双语例句

• Analysis of the court's power to review adoptions
  人民法院对收养行为的审查权探析
• The problem of plans becoming disconnected from development activity is rampant in enterprise adoptions of Agile.
  规划与开发活动脱离的问题在企业采用敏捷的过程中变得愈演愈烈。
• Then the thesis respectively examines the two types of adoptions in Australia& domestic adoption and intercountry adoption.
  接下来，论文从澳大利亚国内领养和跨国领养两方面分别进行分析。
• The convention sets standards and procedures for international adoptions, but critics say it also creates expensive and time consuming bureaucratic hurdles.
  大会为跨国收养制定了标准及程序，但批评家说它收费昂贵、时过长、僚习气严重。
• The Hague Convention on Inter Country Adoptions is intended to regulate international adoptions.
  海牙国际领养公约旨在规范国际领养。
• Magical Effect and Dismemberment& on the application of idioms in advertising language; Shorthand Skills and Quick Adoptions
  妙用与肢解&谈广告中的成语运用中英文速记术原理与速成妙用法
• Although Korean and Chinese cultures are not the same, adoptions from both countries share things in common, Ng said.
  尽管北韩文化与中国文化间存在著诸多差异，但两国儿童的收养情况有著相似之处，Ng说。
• She was one of the first to support same-sex adoptions.
  她是最早的一批支持同性收养小孩的。
• We have had a number of adoptions in most of our major markets.
  大多数主要市场都有不少人选用我们的产品。
• For example, it is hard for many Americans to see images of a tsunami or an earthquake and not want to help& as in Haiti, where adoptions from the U.
  例如，许多美国人在看到海啸或地震的画面时很难做到无动于衷。