| 单词 | adapt |
| 释义 | adapt (ədæpt ) Word forms: adapts , adapting , adapted 1. verb B2 If you adapt to a new situation or adapt yourself to it, you change your ideas or behaviour in order to deal with it successfully. The world will be different, and we will have to be prepared to adapt to the change. [VERB + to] They have had to adapt themselves to a war economy. [VERB pronoun-reflexive + to] Synonyms: adjust, change, match, alter 2. verb B2 If you adapt something, you change it to make it suitable for a new purpose or situation. Shelves were built to adapt the library for use as an office. [VERB noun] Synonyms: convert, change, prepare, fit 3. verb B2 If you adapt a book or play, you change it so that it can be made into a film or a television programme. The scriptwriter helped him to adapt his novel for the screen. [VERB noun] The film has been adapted from a play of the same title. [be VERB-ed] 4. See also adapted Collocations: adapt a book How do you adapt a book set half inside its characters' heads? Times,Sunday Times And can you not somehow adapt a book written later than 1900 that isn't about a detective? Times, Sunday Times The pair struggled to find a way to adapt the book to fit the conventional three-act film script structure. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 I know it's not normally like that when you adapt a book. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Much work had to be done to adapt the book, for example there are only around four lines of dialogue that ended up in the movie. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 We could adapt that model. Times,Sunday Times However, one can adapt the model to other kinds of battles having similar characteristics. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But they adapted the model to suit local conditions. Times, Sunday Times From the first he had a way of adapting his models to his own uses. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Then, when you adapt a novel for the screen, it's automatically polarising. Times, Sunday Times On the one hand, he categorically rejects offers from filmmakers to adapt his novels. Times, Sunday Times Adapting his novel for the film was the easy part, he says. Times, Sunday Times This year four separate production companies have announced that they are adapting her novels. Times, Sunday Times Others expressed that the film faithfully adapted the novel, which led to an inheritance of the book's own problems. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 You could adapt this recipe by using other interesting mixed-grain flours. Times, Sunday Times I have adapted the recipe for you here so it isn't as complicated as the one we do in the restaurant. The Sun I adapted this recipe specifically with the fair in mind, slicing the peaches to make the dish easy to share. Times, Sunday Times Operations were now slowed down to allow for resupply; the delay was to be used to adapt strategy to the new situation. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The police and security services also needed to adapt their strategies, she said. Times, Sunday Times According to this theory, older adults try to maintain this continuity of lifestyle by adapting strategies that are connected to their past experiences. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They respect the rights, dignity, confidentiality, and worth of all people by adapting strategies and methods to the needs of diverse populations and communities. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Plants that have adapted this strategy are often found colonizing recently disturbed land, and are often annuals. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 You need to proceed with care or adapt your technique. Times,Sunday Times It was relatively simple to adapt the technique to the new virus. Times,Sunday Times By building the vaccine using nanotechnology, the scientists hope that they could one day adapt the technique to target precisely a wide range of pathogens. Times, Sunday Times It may also illustrate how to improve technique by adjusting distances, time moves properly, and adapt a technique depending on the size of an opponent. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They had no intention of adapting the technique to fast food. Times,Sunday Times Although it's a recipe for two, as long as you scale up the ingredients in vague proportion, it will adapt easily for more people. Times, Sunday Times There was no electricity, gas or sewerage, but the young adapt easily. Times, Sunday Times It has a national framework and its ethos would adapt easily to a different function. Times, Sunday Times He ascribed his ability to adapt easily to the rolling and pitching of flying to his early prowess as a gymnast. Times, Sunday Times They are happy being the centre of attention, can adapt easily to different situations and are skilled at influencing the way in which others see them. Times, Sunday Times However, he chose to adapt material he had already composed, rather than create something completely new. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 If we want to give direction to the teaching, we must adapt materials created for other purposes-and that's too much work. Christianity Today The anime, while adapting material from the original novel, also adds numerous original story arcs. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It adapts perfectly for one or for a crowd, just scale the ingredients in proportion. Times, Sunday Times It had adapted perfectly to the hostile conditions of the open ocean, where concentrations of food are few and far between. Times, Sunday Times They've adapted perfectly to thrive in the cave. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The pine-forest ecosystem boasts a large number of trees that have adapted perfectly to the light, dry conditions in the park. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Consequently, they should be 'able to adapt quickly and flexibly to new political conditions'. The Times Literary Supplement However, these will be interspersed with periods of crisis when only those who adapt quickly will survive. Times, Sunday Times And we will adapt quickly to whatever new gizmos come along. The Sun However fast things change at work, you can adapt quickly. The Sun It's hard, but you have to adapt quickly to survive. Times, Sunday Times Viruses only replicate inside living organisms, and adapt rapidly to a new host. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Players change and adapt rapidly, often more quickly than our critical responses to them. Times, Sunday Times Employees are having to adapt rapidly to the new conditions. Times, Sunday Times Customer preferences and attitudes keep evolving and require managers to adapt rapidly. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This suggests that as in bats, echolocation sounds, once present, adapt rapidly and independently to the particular species' acoustic environment. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 You can get along with anyone today and adapt successfully to a new way of working. The Sun We continue to adapt successfully to the challenges of the 21st century. Times, Sunday Times Resilience describes the people who adapt successfully even though they experience risk factors that stack the odds against them showing good developmental outcomes. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The tools for adapting successfully to paradigmatic transformation have not been developed. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The group continued to release albums regularly, adapting successfully to the prevailing digital rhythms of the 1980s and beyond. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Many universities have adapted technology to campus life. Times, Sunday Times It represented a modification or a demonstration of improving and adapting technology that had been known by humans for ages. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Adapting technologies from the medical and military fields and other technical measuring instruments he has made possible diagnostics of art and search for art without destroying the artwork itself. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In this area, technological development has been mainly evolutionary rather than revolutionary, leveraging and adapting technologies that are currently applied to offshore oil production or onshore liquefaction. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Because, unlike plates, humans adapt their behaviour. Times, Sunday Times These worries seem quaint now: humans adapt. Times, Sunday Times Therefore, humans adapt their past experiences of things to perform experiments upon and test the pragmatic values of such experience. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 As the stiffness of a surface changes, humans adapt by changing their limb stiffness. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 When those groups function well, oriented by reciprocity and mutual care and respect, growing humans adapt to larger and larger circles of justice, care, and respect. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 I adapted to motherhood like a species adapts to climate change. Times, Sunday Times In cultivation, the species adapts to a range of soils in a sunny or partially shaded situation with good drainage. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In cultivation, the species adapts well to harsh, hot situations. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This species adapts well to aquarium life. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 改编 Japanese: 適合させる |
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