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

• 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。
• 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。
• Shorthand Skills and Quick Adoptions Application of GPS in Rapid Repair of Expressway
  中英文速记术原理与速成妙用法GPS在高速公路快速抢修中的应用
• 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。
• Makes an adoptions modern higher education request the sports teachers troop;
  打造一支适应现代高等教育要求的体育师资队伍；
• He also served as Vice President of Gift of Love International Adoptions ( 2006-2008) and President of the Zhejiang Gongshang University North American Alumni Association ( 2007-2009).
  同时他也以副主席的身份服务于博爱国际儿童领养基金会（2006年-2008年）；浙江工商大学北美校友会会长（2007年-2009年）。
• Hague Convention on jurisdiction, applicable law and recognition of decrees relating to adoptions;
  收养管辖权、法律适用和决定承认海牙公约；
• Rather than selfless behavior, he says, the adoptions could be the result of adults mistaking the young chimps for their own offspring.
  他说，也许根本不是无私的行为，而是成年黑猩猩错误地将小猩猩当成了自己的后代。
• These changes could come about through marriage, divorce, weddings, adoptions, or the birth of a baby.
  这些改变可能是通过结婚、离婚、婚礼、领养、生育小孩这些方式发生。
• 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。