首页英语词典acceptaccept英英释意

accept

英 [ə'ksept] 美[ə'ksɛpt]
  • vt. 接受;承认;承担;承兑;容纳
  • vi. 承认;同意;承兑

英英释意


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"