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| 1 | T to take something that someone gives you 收受；接受 |
| I am here to accept the award on Ms Winslet’ s behalf. 我在这儿代表温斯莱特女士领这个奖。 |
| Saunders has been convicted for accepting bribes. 桑德斯被控犯有受贿罪。 |
| | 1a | I/T to say yes to an invitation or offer 接受（邀请或提议） | | They offered her a job, and she accepted without hesitation. 他们提出给她一份工作，她毫不犹豫地接受了。 | |
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| 2 | T to agree to do what someone asks or suggests 同意；答应；认可 |
| Our clients will never accept this proposal. 我们的客户绝不会同意这个提案。 |
| Most of the report’ s recommendations have been accepted by the government. 报告中的大部分建议已被政府采纳了。 |
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| 3 | T to recognize that something is true , fair , or right 相信 |
| Sam accepted her explanation without question. 萨姆毫不怀疑地相信了她的解释。 |
| This argument is unlikely to be accepted by the court. 这一证据不大可能被法庭接受。 |
| +that Most scientists accept that climate change is linked to carbon emissions. 大多数科学家都相信气候变化与排放的含碳气体有关。 |
| generally/widely accepted (=believed by most people) His views on genetics are not now widely accepted. 被普遍接受 |
| | 3a | to recognize that you are responsible for something 承担（责任等）；承认 | | accept blame/responsibility/liability We cannot accept liability for items stolen from your car. 我们不能承担你那汽车上物品被盗的责任。 | | The media must accept their share of the blame. 传媒必须承担部分过错。 | |
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| 4 | T to recognize that a bad situation exists and cannot be avoided or changed 忍受；容忍 |
| I know it’ s not fair, but you’ ll just have to accept it. 我知道这不公平，但你只能认了。 |
| They found it hard to accept defeat. 他们发现很难接受失败。 |
| +that For a long time, he simply could not accept that she was dead. 在很长一段时间里，他就是无法接受她死了的事实。 |
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| 5 | T to allow someone to join an organization 接纳，吸收（成员） |
| Under the new law, gay people will be accepted in the armed forces. 按照新法律，同性恋者可以被吸收入伍。 |
| accept sb as sth Mexico was accepted as a member of the OECD in 1994. 墨西哥在1994年被吸纳为经济合作与发展组织的成员。 |
| | 5a | to allow someone to become part of a community or family , and make them feel welcome 接纳（某人为社区或家庭成员） | | The local people never really accepted us. 当地人从没真正接纳过我们。 | | accept sb into sth She was desperate for the children to accept her into the family. 她非常渴望孩子们能把她当作家庭的一员。 | |
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| 6 | T to consider that something is suitable or good enough for a particular purpose 赞同；赞成 |
| A publisher in New York has accepted her novel for publication. 纽约的一家出版社答应出版她的小说。 |
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| 7 | T to take a particular form of payment 承兑；接受（某种付款方式） |
| The payphones here accept either coins or phonecards. 这里的付费电话可用硬币也可用电话卡。 |
| We accept personal cheques with proper identification. 如果有适当的证明，我们可以承兑个人支票。 |
| LEFENTRY: accept | | | | If you take something that someone offers you or if you allow something to happen, you accept it表示收受某人提供的某物或允许某事发生，用accept: We accepted her offer of help. 我们接受了她提出的帮助。 They accepted the court’ s decision. 他们接受了法庭判决。If you say that you are willing to do something, you agree to do it表示愿意做某事用agree: She agreed to work at the weekend. 她愿意周末工作。 We agreed to help. 我们愿意帮忙。You accept something, but you agree to do something.接受某事物用accept， 但愿意做某事用agree。 | | | |
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