accept与adopt的区别?用法?

accept 接受 accept a gift/ invitation
adopt 收养，采纳 adopt one's suggestion

动词
1. If you accept something that you have been offered, you say yes to it or agree to take it.
Eventually Sam persuaded her to accept an offer of marriage... 接受
All those invited to next week's peace conference have accepted.

2. If you accept an idea, statement, or fact, you believe that it is true or valid.
I do not accept that there is any kind of crisis in British science... 接受
I don't think they would accept that view...
He did not accept this reply as valid.
...a workforce generally accepted to have the best conditions in Europe.
= acknowledge
3 If you accept an unpleasant fact or situation, you get used to it or recognize that it is necessary or cannot be changed. 屈就
People will accept suffering that can be shown to lead to a greater good...
Urban dwellers often accept noise as part of city life...
I wasn't willing to accept that her leaving was a possibility.

5 If a person, company, or organization accepts something such as a document, they recognize that it is genuine, correct, or satisfactory and agree to consider it or handle it.
We advised newspapers not to accept the advertising...
Cheques can only be accepted up to the value guaranteed on the card...

All-male groups will not be accepted.

1. If you adopt someone else's child, you take it into your own family and make it legally your son or daughter. 收养
There are hundreds of people desperate to adopt a child...
The adopted child has the right to see his birth certificate.
2. If you adopt a new attitude, plan, or way of behaving, you begin to have it. 做出改变,
Parliament adopted a resolution calling for the complete withdrawal of troops...接受了

accept是同意,接受,表示全盘接受
而adopt是采纳,可以是部分采纳,有选择的接受.
例如 I accept your opinion.我同意你的意见
I adopted some of your suggestions.我采纳了你的一些建议.