adapt

B2 CET-4 Oxf 3000 高中 FREQ #9055 ★★☆☆☆

vt. 使适应, 改编 vi. 适应

发音

US /əˈdæpt/

词形变化

adapted adapting adapts 三单 adapts adapting 现在分词 adapted 过去式 adapted 过去分词 more adapt 比较级 most adapt 最高级

别名

ad.

教材释义与例句

动词

使适应；改编

to gradually change your behaviour and attitudes in order to be successful in a new situation

动词

适应

The ability to adapt is a definite asset in this job.

适应能力是做这份工作的绝对有利条件。

释义与例句

v. B2 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit.

    适应

    及物
  2. 2.

    To fit by alteration; to modify or remodel for a different purpose; to adjust.

    适应

    及物

    to adapt a story for the stage

    to adapt an old machine to a new manufacture

  3. 3.

    To make by altering or fitting something else; to produce by change of form or character.

    改编

    改写

    及物

    to bring out a play adapted from the French

    a word of an adapted form

  4. 4.

    To make oneself comfortable to a new thing.

    适应

    不及物

    They could not adapt to the new climate and so perished.

adj.
  1. 1.

    Adapted; fit; suited; suitable; apt.

    适应

词汇关系

动词

同义词 3

adjust accommodate conform

上位词 3

change alter modify

下位词 10

match fit focus square wire gear pitch obey adjust tailor

词源

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Italic *aptos Latin aptus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin apiō ▲ Latin -ō Latin -tō Latin aptō Latin adaptōder. Middle English *adapten English adapt From Middle English *adapten (attested in Middle English adapted (past participle)), from Latin adaptāre (“to fit to”), from ad- (“to”) + aptāre (“to make fit”), from aptus (“fit”); see apt.

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