adopt
形容词: adoptable 名词: adopter 过去式: adopted 过去分词: adopted 现在分词: adopting 第三人称单数: adopts
v.采用;收养;接受
例句：用作动词 (v.)
They adopt new techniques in raising sheep.
他们采用新的养羊技术。
The schools must adopt new methods of teaching foreign languages.
学校应采用新的外语教学法。
常用短语：be adopted into (v. + prep.)
被…所收养 be taken into one's family as a relation by sb/sth
He was adopted into a respectable family. 他被一有声望的家族所收养。
He was adopted into the bride's family. 他入赘于新娘家中。
be adopted from (v. + prep.)
选自…,取自… choose or take sth from some place
This word is adopted from French. 这个词来源于法语。