opt
/ɒpt/verb
no obj.
- make a choice from a range of possibilities选择, 作出抉择：
consumers will opt for low-priced goods
消费者将选择低价商品
with infinitive pupils opting to continue with physics.决定继续选修物理的学生。
词源
late 19th cent.: from French opter, from Latin optare 'choose, wish'.
短语动词
opt in
- choose to participate决定参加：
the database would not include a person's name unless he opted in.
除非决定参加, 否则数据库将不录入姓名。
opt out
1
- choose not to participate in or carry on with something决定不参加; 退出：
the treaty gives any country the right to opt out of a single currency.
条约赋予任何国家退出单一货币的权利。
1.1
- Brit. (of a school or hospital) decide to withdraw from local authority control〈英〉（学校, 医院）决定自主（不受当局控制）。