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adapt 音标拼音: [əd'æpt] vt. 使适应,使适合;改编,改写
vi. 适应 使适应,使适合;改编,改写适应 adapt v 1: make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose; "Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country" [synonym: {adapt}, {accommodate}] 2: adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions; "We must adjust to the bad economic situation" [synonym: {adjust}, {conform}, {adapt}] Adapt \A*dapt"\, a. Fitted; suited. [Obs.] --Swift. [1913 Webster] Adapt \A*dapt"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Adapted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Adapting}.] [L. adaptare; ad aptare to fit; cf. F. adapter. See {Apt}, {Adept}.] To make suitable; to fit, or suit; to adjust; to alter so as to fit for a new use; -- sometimes followed by to or for. [1913 Webster] For nature, always in the right, To your decays adapts my sight. --Swift. [1913 Webster] Appeals adapted to his [man's] whole nature. --Angus. [1913 Webster] Streets ill adapted for the residence of wealthy persons. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] Adaptability 152 Moby Thesaurus words for "adapt": acclimate, acclimatize, accommodate, accommodate with, accord, accustom, adapt to, adjust, adjust to, agree with, alter, ameliorate, arrange, assimilate, assimilate to, attune, be guided by, bend, better, break, break in, break up, capacitate, case harden, change, chime in with, comply, comply with, compose, condition, confirm, conform, convert, coordinate, correct, correspond, cut to, deform, denature, discipline, diversify, domesticate, domesticize, enable, equalize, equip, establish, fall in with, familiarize, fashion, fit, fix, follow, furnish, gear to, gentle, go by, habituate, harden, harmonize, homologate, homologize, housebreak, improve, instrument, instrumentate, inure, key to, make an adaptation, make conform, make plumb, make uniform, measure, meet, meliorate, melodize, mitigate, modify, modulate, mold, musicalize, mutate, naturalize, observe, orchestrate, orient, orient the map, orientate, overthrow, proportion, put in trim, put in tune, put to music, quadrate, qualify, re-create, realign, rebuild, reconcile, reconstruct, rectify, redesign, refit, reform, regulate, remake, remodel, renew, reshape, restructure, revamp, revive, right, ring the changes, rub off corners, score, season, set, set right, set to music, settle, shape, shift the scene, shuffle the cards, similarize, square, straighten, subvert, suit, sync, synchronize, tailor, tally with, tame, temper, train, transcribe, transpose, trim to, true, true up, tune, turn the scale, turn the tables, turn the tide, turn upside down, vary, wont, work a change, worsen, write, yield |
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