Africa is to adopt its first food safety plan this week at a 47-nation conference opening Monday in the Zimbabwean capital to find ways of ensuring healthy meals on the world's poorest continent.
adapt 使適應
Adapt means "to change." Usually we adapt to someone or something.
Examples:
They adapted to the hot weather. 他們適應熱的天氣
adopt 收養/採用
Adopt means "to take as one's own."
Examples:
Marc and Judy adopted two orphans. 馬克和朱帝領養了兩個孤兒
字彙小問答
所有人準備好了沒?=All ready or Already ?
實用程度:80%
究竟「準備」是用 all ready 還是 already?很多人閱讀時總會犯上囫圇吞棗、「一目十行」的毛病,將這兩個簡單的生字當作同一個字解釋。現在,老師也來測試大家是否都能正確的找到答案?
中翻英:
雖然距離舉辦超級盃還有兩年的時間,但是Glendale市已經做好準備了。
It's more than two years away, but the city of Glendale is all already getting ready to host the 2008 Super Bowl.
All ready
就是ready的意思, 只是更強調所有人都準備好了而已。
Examples:
We were all ready to study grammar. 我們全部的人都準備好學習文法了。
Already
是個副詞,意思就是「已經」的概念。算是個強調的語氣但不影響時態。
Examples:
The plane had already left when we arrived. 當我們到的時候飛機已經起飛了。