adoption
noun /əˈdɒpʃn/
/əˈdɑːpʃn/
收养;领养 - She put the baby up for adoption.
她提出要让人收养那个婴儿。 - The number of adoptions has fallen markedly since the 1970s.
自20世纪70年代以来,收养数量明显下降。 - adoption into something his adoption into an American family
他被美国家庭收养
Collocations ChildrenChildren Having a baby/child孩子 怀孕 - want a baby/a child/kids
想要孩子 - start a family
生孩子 - conceive/be expecting/be going to have a baby/child
怀孕 - miss your period
月经未按期来 - become/get/be/find out that you are pregnant
怀孕了;发现怀孕了 - have a baby/a child/kids/a son/a daughter/twins/a family
有一个宝宝/一个孩子/孩子/一个儿子/一个女儿/一对双胞胎/孩子 - have a normal/a difficult/an unwanted pregnancy; an easy/a difficult/a home birth
正常/历经艰难/意外怀孕;顺产;难产;在家中分娩 - be in/go into/induce labour (especially US English) labor
分娩;催产 - have/suffer/cause a miscarriage
流产;引起流产 - give birth to a child/baby/daughter/son/twins
生了一个孩子/一个宝宝/一个女儿/一个儿子/一对双胞胎
养育;抚养;教养 - bring up/ (especially North American English) raise a child/family
抚养孩子 - care for/ (especially British English) look after a baby/child/kid
照顾小孩 - change (British English) a nappy/(North American English) a diaper/a baby
换尿布;给婴儿换尿布 - feed/breastfeed/bottle-feed a baby
喂孩子;给孩子哺乳;用奶瓶喂养孩子 - be entitled to/go on maternity/paternity leave
有权利休/正在休产假/陪产假 - go back/return to work after maternity leave
产假后回到工作岗位 - need/find/get a babysitter/good quality affordable childcare
需要/找到一个临时保姆/负担得起的高质量儿童保育 - balance/combine work and childcare/child-rearing/family life
平衡/兼顾工作与照顾小孩/抚养小孩/家庭生活 - educate/teach/home-school a child/kid
教育孩子;给孩子家庭教育 - punish/discipline/spoil a child/kid
惩罚/管教/娇惯孩子 - adopt a baby/child/kid
收养小孩 - offer a baby for/put a baby up for adoption
把小孩给人收养 - (especially British English) foster a child/kid
代养小孩 - be placed with/be raised by foster parents
被交给寄养父母;由寄养父母抚养
Topics Life stagesc1, Law and justicec1- They were so happy when the adoption went through successfully.
收养手续顺利办妥,他们真是太高兴了。 - When will the child be available for adoption?
什么时候可以收养这个孩子?
Collocations Dictionaryverb + adoption- offer somebody for
- place somebody for
- put somebody up for
- …
- go through
- agency
- She put the baby up for adoption.
(想法、计划、名字等的)采用 - The widespread adoption of new information technology could save $162 billion a year.
广泛采用新的信息技术每年可节省 1,620 亿美元。 - The committee recommended the adoption of new safety procedures.
委员会建议采用新的安全程序。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- general
- widespread
- formal
- …
- recommend
- urge
- The widespread adoption of new information technology could save $162 billion a year.
- [uncountable, countable] (British English, politics
) the act of choosing somebody as a candidate for an election政治 (候选人的)选定,推选,推举 - his adoption as the Labour candidate
他被选定为工党候选人 - The party announced the formal adoption of George Smith as their election candidate.
该党宣布正式提名乔治·史密斯为其竞选候选人。
- his adoption as the Labour candidate
词源Middle English: from Latin adoptio(n-), from ad- ‘to’ + optio(n-) ‘choosing’, from the stem of optare ‘choose’.