1. The agenda was adopted after some discussion.
    经过讨论，议事日程获得通过。

2. They adopted our methods.
    他们采用了我们的办法。

3. After much deliberation, the president decided to adopt her suggestion.
    总经理再三考虑之后，决定采纳她的建议。

4. The resolution was adopted by a vote of 180 in favour to 10 against it.
    决议案以一百八十票对十票获得通过。

1. 采用：校本课程开发把课程开发的场所界定在学校,就意味着学校不只是采用(adopt)课程,而要调适(adapt)课程. 不仅课程方案制订是一个不断对话的修正过程,课程方案的实施也是在独特复杂情境中的教和学的过程,

2. 收养：收养表示贺家主动自愿地放弃作父母的权力,但贺家从未有任何意向让人收养(ADOPT)贺梅. 事实上,最初当贺家表示接受教堂帮助时,有一对想要孩子但没有的白人夫妇提出要收养贺梅,但被拒绝了. 对这一点,BAKER家是非常清楚的.

3. 接受：但此前协议的各方不是一定要接受(adopt)该议定书,所以有时候它标明为任择议定书(optional protocol),特别是原条约下的多方都不接受的情况下. 例如<京都议定书>>(Kyoto Protocol)是对<联合国气候变化框架协议>>(United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change/UNFCCC)的补充规定.

1. 采取；采纳；采用
    If you adopt a new attitude, plan, or way of behaving, you begin to have it.

    e.g. 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。
    e.g. 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。

2. 收养;领养
    If you adopt someone else''s child, you take it into your own family and make it legally your son or daughter.

    e.g. There are hundreds of people desperate to adopt a child...
           有数以百计的人渴望领养孩子。
    e.g. 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。

3. 采用，保持（姿势）
    If you adopt a physical position, you move yourself into it.

    e.g. 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。

4. 移居（某国）;选择（某国）定居
    If you adopt a country, you choose it as a place to live.

    e.g. 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。
    e.g. ...their adopted home in England.
           他们移居英国的家

5. 采用（语气、口音等）
    If you adopt an accent or a particular tone of voice, you speak differently from normal, especially to create an effect in a particular situation.

adopt

    e.g. 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。
    e.g. 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。

1. take into one''s family

    e.g. They adopted two children from Nicaragua

    Synonym: take in

2. take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect

    e.g. His voice took on a sad tone
           The story took a new turn
           he adopted an air of superiority
           She assumed strange manners
           The gods assume human or animal form in these fables

    Synonym: assumeacquiretake ontake

3. take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one''s own

    e.g. She embraced Catholicism
           They adopted the Jewish faith

    Synonym: espouseembracesweep up

4. put into dramatic form

    e.g. adopt a book for a screenplay

    Synonym: dramatizedramatise

5. take up and practice as one''s own

    Synonym: borrowtake overtake up

6. choose and follow
    as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans

    e.g. She followed the feminist movement
           The candidate espouses Republican ideals

    Synonym: followespouse

7. take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities

    e.g. When will the new President assume office?

    Synonym: assumetake ontake over