adapt
- vt. 使适应;改编
- vi. 适应
词态变化
中文词源
前缀ad-, 去,往。apt, 适应的。
英英释意
- 1. make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose;
- "Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country"
- 2. adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions;
- "We must adjust to the bad economic situation"
英文词源
- adapt (v.)
- early 15c. (implied in adapted) "to fit (something, for some purpose)," from Middle French adapter (14c.), from Latin adaptare "adjust," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + aptare "join," from aptus "fitted" (see apt). Meaning "to undergo modification so as to fit new circumstances" (intransitive) is from 1956. Related: Adapting.
同义词辨析
adapt, adjust, conform, accommodate, suit, fit
这些动词均有"使适合,适应"之意。
adapt:指人或物在原有情况下作某些改变以适应新的环境或不同的条件,强调改变的目的和重要性。
adjust与adapt含义很接近,但adjust所改变的幅度要小一些,侧重过程,主要用于调整角度、高度、光点等。
conform:多指与某模式或规则相符,也引申指改变习惯等以适应新的环境。
accommodate:书面用词,指以外部条件标准改变自己或某事以求得适应,着重改变或调节的有利。
suit:指适合要求,从而使人满意愉快。
fit:含义广,指人或物适合或适应某一目的或用途。
考试真题
- What do animals do? There are three main ways that animals survive the cold in winter: sleep, adapt or migrate.
出自-2017年6月听力原文
- People in cold places live in warm houses and have learned to adapt.
出自-2017年6月听力原文
- A person who had input into where he would move and has had time to adapt to it might do as well in a nursing home as in a small residential care home, other factors being equal.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文
- Investing in research to find ways to adapt to consumers' needs.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文
- Kodak's decision to file for bankruptcy(破产)protection is a sad, though not unexpected, turning point for a leading American corporation that pioneered consumer photography and dominated the film market for decades, but ultimately failed to adapt to the digital revolution.
出自-2013年6月阅读原文
- Even the traditional chefs are aware of the need to adapt to local tastes and customs, while maintaining the Britishness of their cuisine.
出自-2011年6月阅读原文
- Other animals adapt, for example, by staying active in winter.
2017年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
- There must urgently be a meaningful mobilisation of the policies outlined in the agreement if we are to achieve national emissions reductions while helping the most vulnerable countries adapt to climate change.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文
- Being stationed in Antarctica involves adapting to life on the planet's driest, windiest and coldest continent, yet each nation manages to make itself at home.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文
- The purpose of today’s lecture, as you have seen from the title and the abstract, is to examine in more detail the problems facing small- and medium-sized enterprises which arise at least in part from having to adapt to rapid advances in technology.
出自-2016年12月听力原文
- When we can't actually remove the source of our fear, we tend to adapt psychologically by adopting a range of defence mechanisms, says Tom Crompton, change strategist for the environmental organisation World Wide Fund for Nature.
出自-2015年12月阅读原文
- Whether they experiment with three-year degrees, offer year-round classes, challenge the tenure system—or all of the above—universities are slowly realizing that to stay competitive and relevant they must adapt to a rapidly changing world.
出自-2012年6月阅读原文
- Universities are increasingly aware that they must adapt to a rapidly changing world in order to stay competitive and relevant
出自-2012年6月阅读原文
- Curriculums have been adapted to students' needs.
出自-2012年6月阅读原文
- They cannot adapt to the rigor of the school.
出自-2011年6月阅读原文
- Modern urban life in rich countries is not well adapted to large families.
出自-2010年12月阅读原文
- They are better able to adapt to the surroundings.
出自-2012年12月听力原文
- He has had his truck adapted for cold temperatures.
出自-2010年12月听力原文
- "When we can't actually remove the source of our fear, we tend to adapt psychologically by adopting a range of defence mechanisms," says Tom Crompton, change strategist for the environmental organisation World wide Fund for Nature.
2015年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
- Nokia's board resisted change, making it impossible for the company to adapt to rapid shifts in the industry.
2015年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A
- She is hard at work finding a way to take traits from rare wild plants that adapt to extreme dry weather and use them in food crops.
2018年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
- The purpose of today's lecture, as you have seen from the title and the abstract, is to examine in more detail the problems facing small- and medium-sized enterprises which arise at least in part from having to adapt to rapid advances in technology.
2016年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
- After all, if we adapt in that way, we may avoid the need to change in so many others.
2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
- Around the world, people are adapting in surprising ways, especially in some poor countries.
2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
- But he is providing a few years during which the farmers will, perhaps, be able to find other means of adapting.
2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
- But some suggestions for adapting are not.
2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
- But the most sensible form of adaptation is surely to adapt our energy systems to emit less carbon pollution.
2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
- Farmers in many countries are also adapting like this—either by growing new produce, or by growing the same things differently.
2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
- Human beings will continue to adapt to the changing climate in both ordinary and astonishing ways.
2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
- Ideally, the system would tell us when to adapt human activities that are pushing an ecosystem toward a breakdown.
2019年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文
- Instead, we are diurnal creatures, with eyes adapted to living in the sun's light.
2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文
- Serious readers will both get excited over what happens in some news stories and adapt themselves to the reality.
2015年高考英语江苏卷 任务型阅读 题设
- So even if emissions were to begin to decrease today, we would still face the challenge of adapting to climate change.
2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
- These activities are regulated by flexible rules adapted from standardized sport rules and are set up by the children or by an involved adult.
2015年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读表达 原文
- We are therefore not talking about adapting to a new standard, but to a constantly shifting set of conditions.
2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
- When a reader selects delayed reward news, he pulls himself into the world of surrounding reality to which he can adapt himself only by hard work.
2015年高考英语江苏卷 任务型阅读 原文
- When the polluting industries argue that we've lost the battle to control carbon pollution and have no choice but to adapt, it's a nonsense designed to make the case for business as usual.
2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
- But policies to help workers adapt will be indispensable.
出自-2018年考研阅读原文
- Jokes that work one person won't necessarily land with another, So, adapt your style accordingly to type.
2020年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
实用场景例句
- These styles can be adapted to suit individual tastes.
- 这些式样可以修改,以适应个人不同爱好。
牛津词典
- We have had to adapt quickly to the new system.
- 我们不得不迅速适应新制度。
牛津词典
- A large organization can be slow to adapt to change.
- 大机构可能应变迟缓。
牛津词典
- The organisms were forced to adapt in order to survive.
- 生物被迫适应,以求生存。
牛津词典
- It's amazing how soon you adapt.
- 你这么快就适应了,真是令人惊奇。
牛津词典
- It took him a while to adapt himself to his new surroundings.
- 他过了好一阵子才适应了新环境。
牛津词典
- Three of her novels have been adapted for television.
- 她的长篇小说中有三部已改编成电视节目。
牛津词典
- Most of these tools have been specially adapted for use by disabled people.
- 这些工具多数已经过特别改装,供残疾人使用。
牛津词典
- The film has been adapted from a play of the same title.
- 电影改编自一部同名戏剧。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- The world will be different, and we will have to be prepared to adapt to the change...
- 世界会变得不同,我们必须做好准备以适应其变化。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- They have had to adapt themselves to a war economy.
- 他们不得不适应战时经济。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Shelves were built to adapt the library for use as an office.
- 为将图书馆改作办公室而做了一些架子。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- The scriptwriter helped him to adapt his novel for the screen...
- 编剧帮助他将其所著小说改编成电影。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- I find it hardto adapt myself to my new school.
- 我发现我很难适应新的学校.
期刊摘选
- Lacking in awareness, animals have to passively adapt themselves to the living environments.
- 动物没有觉性, 只能被动地适应生存环境.
期刊摘选
- Objective To draw a training plan of prevent and cure tuberculosis adapt to village doctors.
- 目的制订适合乡村医生参与的结核病防治培训方案.
期刊摘选
- See what other people are doing and adapt the Methods : To your own needs.
- 看看别人怎么做的,拿来为己所用.
期刊摘选
- We can adapt this old house for use as a garage.
- 我们可以将这座旧房改造成一个车库.
期刊摘选
- Can adapt turns the class work.
- 能适应翻班工作.
期刊摘选
- I also have a strong ability to adapt, hardworking spirit, also a high team spirit.
- 我的适应能力也很强, 有吃苦耐劳的精神, 也有很高的团队合作精神.
期刊摘选
- Classrooms are flexible learning spaces that support and adapt to student needs.
- 教室是支持和满足学生需求的灵活的学习场所.
期刊摘选
- In addition, the approach can significantly adapt the original model parameters and is easily implemented.
- 提出的方法对初始值有较大适应性,并且实现简单.
期刊摘选
- MOBILE parameters correction and computing methods are put forward to adapt China urban transportation planning.
- 分析了确定排放因子的方法,提出适用于中国城市交通规划的MOBILE模式法参数修正及参数计算方法.
期刊摘选
- Remember you will to adapt it to the circumstances of the game so far.
- 记住你一定要根据游戏进程的具体情况来调整.
期刊摘选
- The new students are very slow to adapt to the rules.
- 新生对于那些规定适应得很慢.
期刊摘选
- Adapt it, sell it, improve it and sell it again, hopefully all within the same week.
- 先改变 、 后销售 、 再改进和再销售, 每一周都充满了新的希望.
期刊摘选
- She lacked the ability to adapt easily.
- 她缺少适应能力.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
- He is going to adapt his play for television.
- 他想把他的剧本改编成电视剧.
《简明英汉词典》
- The shoes adapt me well.
- 这鞋我穿正好.
《现代英汉综合大词典》