accept
英[?'ksept]
美[?'ks?pt]
- vt. 接受；承認；承擔；承兌；容納
- vi. 承認；同意；承兌
英英釋意
- 1. consider or hold as true;
- "I cannot accept the dogma of this church"
- "accept an argument"
- 2. receive willingly something given or offered;
- "The only girl who would have him was the miller's daughter"
- "I won't have this dog in my house!"
- "Please accept my present"
- 3. give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to;
- "I cannot accept your invitation"
- "I go for this resolution"
- 4. react favorably to; consider right and proper;
- "People did not accept atonal music at that time"
- "We accept the idea of universal health care"
- 5. admit into a group or community;
- "accept students for graduate study"
- "We'll have to vote on whether or not to admit a new member"
- 6. take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person;
- "I'll accept the charges"
- "She agreed to bear the responsibility"
- 7. tolerate or accommodate oneself to;
- "I shall have to accept these unpleasant working conditions"
- "I swallowed the insult"
- "She has learned to live with her husband's little idiosyncracies"
- 8. be designed to hold or take;
- "This surface will not take the dye"
- 9. of a deliberative body: receive (a report) officially, as from a committee
- 10. make use of or accept for some purpose;
- "take a risk"
- "take an opportunity"
- 11. be sexually responsive to, used of a female domesticated mammal;
- "The cow accepted the bull"