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

• 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。
• Besides, this paper analyzes the distinctions in respect to the nature of adoption from civil law and common law system; and different countries 'viewpoints and attitudes towards the secrecy and publicity of inter-country adoptions.
  分析了大陆法系和普通法系在收养性质上的区别和各国对跨国收养秘密性和公开性的观点和态度。
• From celebrity adoptions to philanthropic Hollywood families, helping people across the world is almost "en Vogue".
  从名人的收养事件到慈善的好莱坞家庭，几乎使到帮助世界各地的人民这一行为成为一种时尚。
• We go on to state that there are a wide range of SOA adoptions or project types, each of which accrues different benefits.
  然后进一步谈到，SOA项目的类型有多种多样，不同类型的SOA项目带来的价值也不同。
• 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。
• 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；
• There are many anecdotes of full-on Agile adoptions that began with technically vital developers who began performing selected Agile practices in this way.
  有很多以技术第一开发员开始的敏捷实践的许多轶事，这些开发员开始以这种方式执行选择的敏捷实践。
• The buffering effect of coping strategy adoptions was found in this study, but the mechanisms of the effect merit further exploration.
  使用因应策略对压力过程的缓冲作用在本研究中获得支持，但是其作用机制应进一步探讨。
• Different adoptions of Confucius 'ideas on humanity and loyalty are one of the typical examples.
  中日企业对孔子仁、忠思想的不同吸收便是其中典型的一例。