[ə'dɔpʃən]
adoption
n. 采用,采纳,收养

例句与用法:

  1. Connection by blood, marriage, or adoption; family relationship.
    亲属关系由血缘,婚姻,或收养形成的亲戚关系;家庭的亲属关系
  2. The list of bill to be consider is headed by the bill on the adoption service.
    要考虑的议案一览表上第一项就是关于收养服务的议案。
  3. He was pleased by the adoption of a little girl.
    他对收养了一个女孩感到高兴。

英英解释:

名词 adoption:

  1. the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception
  2. 同义词:acceptance, acceptation, espousal
  3. a legal proceeding that creates a parent-child relation between persons not related by blood; the adopted child is entitled to all privileges belonging to a natural child of the adoptive parents (including the right to inherit)
  4. the appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source
  5. 同义词:borrowing