adapted [
ə'dæptid]
a. 适合的
- This machine has been specially adapted for underwater use.
这机器是为水下使用而特别改装的。 - Her facile nature adapted itself to any company.
她随和的个性使她能与任何人相处。
adapted[ adj ]
changed in order to improve or made more fit for a particular purpose
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seeds precisely adapted to the areainstructions altered to suit the children's different ages
Adapt \A*dapt"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Adapted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Adapting}.] [L. adaptare; ad + aptare to fit; cf. F.
adapter. See {Apt}, {Adept}.]
To make suitable; to fit, or suit; to adjust; to alter so as
to fit for a new use; -- sometimes followed by to or for.
For nature, always in the right,
To your decays adapts my sight. --Swift.
Appeals adapted to his [man's] whole nature. --Angus.
Streets ill adapted for the residence of wealthy
persons. --Macaulay.
- The maze design had to be adapted to meet certain U.S. standards, including exits to comply with fire codes, and breakaway panels in case of emergency.
- He adapted it from the original story by Ted Hughes - who wrote it for his children.
- The script, adapted from Dave Stevens's graphic novel by Danny Bilson and Paul De Meo, is drearily earnest, without a single original wrinkle in the timeless battle of good against evil.
- CONTRARY to popular belief, Britain's workers have adapted to change in a positive way.
- The film was adapted by Howard Korder ("Boys' Life") from his play.
- He and Robert Caswell adapted their screenplay from John Bryson's book "Evil Angels." The moviemakers' timing was better than they could have anticipated.
- Yesterday's fall of more than 2 per cent in Guinness shares suggests that the equity market has still not fully adapted to low inflation.
- The solution to Africa's vast and complex food problems will require the heavy use of farming technologies adapted to local methods, says the Office of Technology Assessment, a non-partisan research agency of Congress.
- The Churro adapted to dramatic desert climate changes, altitude, limited water resources and forage conditions, and Navajo flocks soon numbered in the hundreds of thousands.
- It is just for that market that these works have been adapted and created.
- Ken Russell's "Dusk Before Fireworks" (adapted by Valerie Curtin from a Dorothy Parker story) is the most heavily tinged by its era.
- When we did the pilot she gave me a medal with St. Christopher on one side and the Star of David on the other." Bosley stars as a crime-solving Chicago priest in the NBC series, adapted from the novels by Ralph McInerny.
- DeFanti said the technology could easily be adapted to a computer display for still images.
- THE SOUND of Christmas carols can be heard regularly echoing round the City. But, this year, the choristers have adapted some of the old standards to reflect this recessionary season.
- "This is an open water species, basically, and for whatever reason, being in the ice is new to them," he said. "They are not adapted for it anatomically.
- The movie, adapted by Russell and directed by Lewis Gilbert ("Alfie," "Educating Rita"), supplies other actors, including Tom Conti as a kind of laidback Zorba.
- Armonk, N.Y.-based International Business Machines Corp. began shipping in December a version adapted for its computers.
- The TELES and CELOGIC systems can be adapted to each other and over the medium term largely integrated - which will allow them to increase their market leadership.
- Among the 40-plus generation, conventional exercises remain popular, though some have been adapted for the age group.
- Police uniforms have been adapted for the conditions.
- This article is adapted from a speech given at a Trilateral Commission meeting in New York this winter.
- He read the book from which the TV movie was adapted.
- Employee suits have claimed that the materials may be hazardous and that Lockheed's facilities haven't been adapted to the hazards.
- Wang says its advertising agency adapted an anecdote about a sale to the Upper Volta River Authority.
- Show adapted the idea from a hand vacuum the University of California developed years ago to test the levels of insect populations.
- Now they are being adapted for use in high-definition televisions and the space shuttle.
- What is more, virtually any plant used to manufacture fertilizers, pesticides or pharmaceutical products can be readily adapted to churn out large quantities of the stuff.
- Hardy intertidal creatures have adapted to survive long dry spells, but they cannot handle prolonged exposure to oil.
- Several of them suggested there was a western 'plot' against east German athletes. While east German athletes quickly adapted to commercialised sport in the west, many of them believe it is short-sighted even from the standpoint of sponsors.
- One who has adapted his life more than most to live in better harmony with the environment is Pat Stone, 40, a former assistant editor at Mother Earth News magazine.