coopt [
kəu'ɔpt]
vt. 增补…为新成员
- All the trucks were coopted to carry the wounded soldiers.
所有的卡车都被征用去运伤兵。 - Mr Robinson was coopted on to the standing committee.
罗宾逊先生被增选为新常务委员 - Seeking to coopt the youthful majority of Iranian society, the ageing clerics who control the Islamic Republic have lurched over the years from one course to another.
实际控制伊斯兰共和国的那些老龄的神职人员,一直在伊朗社会年轻的大多数民众中寻求补选,为此,多年来一直从一个过程到另一个过程,不断徘徊蹒跚而行。
co-opt \co-opt"\, coopt \co*["o]pt"\, v. t. [See {Co["o]ptate}.
Cf. F. coopter.]
To choose or elect in concert with another. [R.]
Each of the hundred was to co["o]pt three others.
--Jowett
(Thucyd.).
2. To choose or elect as a colleague or fellow member of a
group; as, The church members co-opted individuals from
similar backgrounds to replenish the congregation.
[PJC + WordNet 1.5]
3. To assimilate (a smaller group) into a larger group.
[PJC]
4. To persuade an opponent to join one's own side.
[PJC]
5. To appoint summarily (with or without the appointee's
consent).
[WordNet 1.5]
6. To appropriate (something rightly belonging to another) as
one's own; to preempt; as, to co-opt someone's name.
[PJC]