v. 采用( adopt的第三人称单数 ); 收养; 正式接受; 吸收（外来词语）

v choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans

v take up and practice as one's own

v take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities

v take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect

v take into one's family

v put into dramatic form

v take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own