喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture taking something that did not begin as yours and making it fully your own — a child who becomes your child, a method that becomes how your team works, a name you now answer to. Nothing is copied and nothing is borrowed for a while; what is adopted is taken in and kept.

可以想成：把一樣原本不屬於你的東西接過來，變成真正屬於你的——一個孩子成了你的孩子、一套做法成了團隊的做法、一個名字…更多收起可以想成：把一樣原本不屬於你的東西接過來，變成真正屬於你的——一個孩子成了你的孩子、一套做法成了團隊的做法、一個名字成了你會回應的名字。這不是模仿，也不是暫時借用；被 adopt 的東西是被接進來、留下來的。

Three branches

把一個孩子接成自己的家人

最具體的一面，也是這個字最鮮明的畫面。

adopt, a child · verb · B1

to take a child into your family and become their legal mother or father, so the child is now your own.

領養；收養

把一套做法接過來當自己的

接進來的變成做法、規則或姿態：從此以後這就是你的做法。

adopt, a plan or method · verb · B2

to start using a new plan, method, rule, or way of thinking, and to keep using it.

採用；採取

把身分或人選接過來

接進來的是一個身分標記，或是被推出來代表團體的那個人。

adopt, a new name or custom · verb · B2

to choose a new name, country, or custom for yourself and treat it as your own.

改用（新名字）；把…當成自己的

原始詞典資料8 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

adoptverb/əˈdɒpt/

  • 1

    To take (a child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.) by choice into a relationship.

    • A friend of mine recently adopted a Chinese baby girl found on the streets of Beijing.
  • 2

    To take (a child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.) by choice into a relationship.

    • We're going to adopt a Dalmatian.
  • 3

    To take (a child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.) by choice into a relationship.

    • We adopted an elephant at the local zoo.
  • 4

    To take (a child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.) by choice into a relationship.

    • This supermarket chain adopts several families every Yuletide, providing them with money and groceries for the holidays.
    • Sixteen years ago, the station entered into a new chapter when it was adopted by the Friends of Chirk Station (FoCS) volunteer group, under the Arriva Trains Wales Station Adopters programme.
  • 5

    To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally.

    • He adopted a new look in order to fit in with his new workmates.
    • [S]he [Edwina, mother of Tennessee Williams] was indeed Amanda [Wingfield, character in Williams' play The Glass Menagerie] in the flesh: a doughty chatterbox from Ohio who adopted the manner of a Southern belle and eschewed both drink and sex to the greatest extent possible.
  • 6

    To select and take or approve.

    • to adopt the view or policy of another
    • These are resolutions that were adopted.
  • 7

    slangboard-gameschessgamesTo beat an opponent ten times in a row.

    • The match was not even close; the IM made amateurish blunders and ended up getting adopted.
    • Nakamura 'Adopts' Komodo On Fathers Day: 20.5-2.5

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。