adopter

noun

1. 收养者
   a person who adopts a child
2. （新技术）采用者
   a person who starts using a new technology
   1. early/late adopters of DVD players
      早期 / 后来用DVD机的人

1. VERB 采取；采纳；采用
   If you adopt a new attitude, plan, or way of behaving, you begin to have it.
   1. Parliament adopted a resolution calling for the complete withdrawal of troops...
      议会采纳了要求全部撤军的决议。
   2. Pupils should be helped to adopt a positive approach to the environment.
      应帮助学生对环境采取积极的态度。
2. VERB 收养;领养
   If you adopt someone else's child, you take it into your own family and make it legally your son or daughter.
   1. There are hundreds of people desperate to adopt a child...
      有数以百计的人渴望领养孩子。
   2. The adopted child has the right to see his birth certificate.
      被收养的孩子有权看自己的出生证明。
3. VERB 采用，保持（姿势）
   If you adopt a physical position, you move yourself into it.
   1. I tried to adopt a curled-up position to avoid damaging my limbs.
      我努力保持蜷曲的姿势以免四肢受伤。
4. VERB 移居（某国）;选择（某国）定居
   If you adopt a country, you choose it as a place to live.
   1. Podulski had joined the U.S. Navy as an aviator, adopting a new country and a new profession.
      波度尔斯基加入美国海军当上了飞行员，不仅改了国籍还换了行当。
   2. ...their adopted home in England.
      他们移居英国的家
5. VERB 采用（语气、口音等）
   If you adopt an accent or a particular tone of voice, you speak differently from normal, especially to create an effect in a particular situation.
   1. He has adopted the accent of a Second World War newscaster...
      他承袭了二战时期播音员的口音。
   2. The girl was uncertain what to do, or what tone of voice to adopt.
      女孩不知道该做什么，也不知道该用什么口气说。

1. Being a gadget hound and early adopter, the chase used to be thrilling.
   笔者是一个小型设备迷和早期使用者，过去对小型设备的追逐曾经令人兴奋不已。
2. By her own admission, Pickard was "not an early adopter" of the MOOC movement.
   皮卡德自己也承认，她“并不是从一开始就接受”MOOC这种方式。
3. And you could still count yourself as an early adopter of this historic development in automotive propulsion systems.
   此外，驾驶者还藉此成了历史上第一批采用新型汽车动力系统的人之一。
4. Despite the continued dominance of Android in the marketplace, there are several nuggets of good news for Apple ( AAPL) in the results of a changewave survey of mostly ( 86%) American early adopter types released Monday.
   虽然Android继续领跑市场，但市场调研机构ChangeWave在周一发布的一份调查报告为苹果（Apple）带来了几条利好消息，调查中的绝大部分（86%）受访者是来自美国的智能手机用户。
5. This person complements the Early Adopter, by working to adapt both new and existing software tools to your team's specific needs.
   这个人根据团队的具体需要改编新的和已有的软件工具，是早期采用者的补充。
6. Alfresco, an early adopter of CMIS, had the most mature implementation, so I started there.
   Alfresco是CMIS的一个早期采用者，当时拥有最成熟的实现，因此我从那里开始。
7. The alphaWorks emerging technologies web site provides a unique opportunity for early adopter developers to experience the latest innovations from IBM.
   alphaWorks新兴技术网站可为前卫开发人员提供体验来自IBM的最新创新技术的特有机会。
8. Early adopter interaction model
   早期采用者的交互模型
9. For example, suppose the Early Adopter found a tool intended to help database administrators recover from catastrophic failures.
   比如，假设早期采用者找到了一种帮助数据库管理员从突发失效中恢复的工具。
10. Although I have always seen value in agile practices, I have not been an early adopter& a role I typically assume only when the risk and stakes are low.
    尽管我已经看到了敏捷实践上的价值，但我还不是一个早期的采纳者&我通常是只有在风险和利害关系较低时的一个角色。
11. The adopter may only adopt one child.
    收养人只能收养一名子女。
12. Given how pervasive smartphones are today, the early adopter thing is shrinking, he says.
    鉴于智能手机如今已是如此无处不在，所谓的早期采用者已经越来越少了，他说道。
13. Japan, an early adopter of e-commerce, leads the region in online bookings.
    日本是电子商务发展较早的地区，在亚太地区的在线预定领域也处于领先位置。
14. But Peggy Kriss, a psychologist in Newton, is an early adopter.
    不过，牛顿市的心理学家佩吉·克里斯（PeggyKriss）是一位先行者。
15. Sure the Go910 is priced at a premium, but you are an early adopter aren't you?
    相信到910的价格有一个溢价，但你是早期采用者是不是你吗？
16. However developers needing it sooner can enroll in an early adopter program.
    然而，开发人员如果急需使用，可以去申请早期采用计划。
17. Am a late adopter of new technology, so I only recently discovered that an age-old urban problem had been solved.
    作为一个接受新技术比较迟的人，我直到最近才发现一个存在已久的城市生活问题已经得到解决。
18. DENNIS: Yeah, I'm an early adopter of new technology.
    丹尼斯：是的，我喜欢追求高新技术产品。
19. In this context, China will become an early adopter and developer of new technologies.
    从这方面看，中国将更早开发和采用新技术。
20. Student: You mentioned earlier about the hypothesis on the early adopters on the cheap phones We're assuming there's still somewhat of an early adopter thing, right?
    学生：您前面提到关于，廉价手机初期采用者的假设，我们假设现在仍多少存在，一些初期采用者的情况，对吗？
21. He is a early adopter who is consistantly looking for new exciting technologies.
    他总是在寻找令人兴奋的新技术，并愿意马上采用这些技术。
22. The "early adopter" profile of agile adoption often brought the approach into organizations already quite agile in their ways.
    敏捷的“早期采纳者”们通常将这种方法带入已经存在某种程度的敏捷的组织中。
23. The personality of the individual adopter plays an important role in the propensity to trust the unfamiliar.
    个人采纳者的性格在对信任不熟悉事物的习性上扮演了重要角色。
24. Hestood out among the Mongol rulers of China as an adopter of mainstreamChinese culture, to the discontent of some Mongol elite.
    他站在了统治者之间的蒙古人我国作为收养中华文化的主流，以不满的一些蒙古人精英。
25. In the event that such taxes or duties are legally imposed initially on Licensor or licensor is later assessed by any taxing authority, then Licensor will be promptly reimbursed by adopter for such taxes or duties plus any interest and penalties suffered by licensor.
    如果许可者在开始被合法征收或者随后被任何授权税务机构征收这类税，那么许可者须及时由采用者补偿这些税并加上许可者遭受的任何利息和罚金。
26. Therefore with the increase in use of Cloud, even if only at the early adopter stages, it was no surprise to see REST being adopted by various implementations.
    因此，随着云应用的增长，即使是在早期采用阶段，看到各种实现采用REST技术是毫不奇怪的。
27. We are an early adopter and face many of the standard challenges, that just comes with the territory.
    我们是先驱者，遇到了数不胜数的挑战，这些挑战都伴随着领域问题。
28. This sharing behavior between an adopter and an orphan is a clear sign of altruism, the researchers conclude online this week in PLoS One.
    这种在收养者和被收养者之间的分享，就是一种利他主义的明显标志。这些研究人员在《PLoS杂志》网上发表文章，作出这样的结论。
29. If you can do this, becoming not only an early adopter, but an early discarder, you will realize greater status rewards than you ever imagined.
    假如您能做到这些，成为不仅是新事物的早期培养者，而且也是早期的摒弃者，您就会认识到所得的地位远比想像中高得多。

noun

1. a person who adopts a child of other parents as his or her own child

   Synonym:    adoptive parent