adopter

[ə'dɔptə]

n. 采用者, 采纳者, 蒸馏用接受管

例句与用法：

He is their adopted son.

他是他们的养子。

He's not our natural son we adopted him when he was three.

他不是我们的亲儿子－－他三岁时我们领养的。

New methods of teaching foreign languages are adopted in this institute.

该学院采用新的外语教学法。

As they had no children of their own, they adopted an orphan.

他们没有亲生儿女，就收养了一个孤儿。

The government adopted an uncompromising posture on the issue of independence.

政府在独立的问题上采取了毫不妥协的态度。

A member of the left-wing majority group of the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party that adopted Lenin's theses on party organization in 1903.

布尔什维克俄国社会民主工人党占多数派的左翼成员，该党于1903年接受了列宁建党理论

As a rule of thumb, a one-cent-a-gallon gasoline tax raises$1 billion. Oil producers in President-elect Bush's adopted state of Texas, however, would rather see a tax on imported crude oil.

一般情形是，每加仑加汽油一分钱的税可以征收10亿元。可是，在布什第二家乡德克萨斯州的产油商宁愿看见在进口原油上征税。

The babies, Carolina and Pablo, grew into bright and healthy children, ... By some accounts, they knew they were adopted. By all accounts, they were lovingly cared for.

婴儿卡罗莱娜跟巴卜罗长成又聪明又健康的儿童 ... 据某些人说，他们知道他们是被收养的。据所有的人说，他们有受到疼爱与照顾。

详细释义：

n.[C]

1. 养父; 养母

2. 采纳者, 采用者

an adopter of an idea

意见的采纳者