[] to accept and use a particular idea, system or proposal, especially a new one采取；采纳◆Business will move to other centres if we do not adopt modern business methods.如果我们不采取现代经营方式，生意将转移到其他中心。 () to buy and use a product or service as the normal or official one正式采用（某产品或服务）◆a campaign to persuade households to adopt digital television游说家庭采用数字电视的广告活动to support, or partly support, a public place or institution, for example a school, by giving money, usually to make good relations between the company and the local community赞助➡sponsor verb