the meaning that a word or expression is generally accepted as having 接受(acception):通常认为一个单词或表达具有havingWord起源的含义 Word Originlate Middle English (originally in the sense ‘favourable reception, approval’): from late Latin acceptatio(n-), from the verb acceptare (frequentative of accipere ‘take something to oneself’, from ad- ‘to’ + capere ‘take’). The current sense dates from the early 17th cent.