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the act of adopting a child; the fact of being adopted 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 孩子 Having a baby/child 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
Parenting 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
Extra ExamplesTopics Life stagesc1, Law and justicec1They 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？
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + adoption- offer somebody for
- place somebody for
- put somebody up for
- …
- go through
- agency
- [uncountable]
the decision to start using something such as an idea, a plan or a name （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。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- general
- widespread
- formal
- …
- recommend
- urge
- [uncountable, countable] (British English,
politics 政治 the act of choosing somebody as a candidate for an election （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。
Word OriginMiddle English: from Latin adoptio(n-), from ad- ‘to’ + optio(n-) ‘choosing’, from the stem of optare ‘choose’.