adoption

adoptionadoption[əˈdɔpʃən]n.1.■采用,收养

adoption[ə'dɔpʃən]n.1.■采取，采用2.■正式通过3.■收养，领养4.■[英国英语](公路等)由地方当局承担保养open adoption公开领养，合法领养

adoptionadoption[əˈdɔpʃən]n.1.■采纳, 采用2.■过继3.■(外国语的)借用4.■(候选人的)指定If you can not have children of your own, why not consider adoption?假如你自己不能生育, 何不考虑过继一个呢?He was not born here, but this is now his country of adoption.他虽然不生于此地, 但现在这里已是他的入籍国了。The word is now English by adoption.这个词现在已被采纳为英语。