"To me,to adapt a book is not a question of producing a carbon copy of the book,"

VOA: standard.2010.01.08

If the food environment had evolved very slowly, as it had in earlier human history, the body would have a chance to adapt.

如果食品环境演化很缓慢,像它在人类早期历史时那样,机体就有机会去适应这样的食品环境

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You may have to adapt it to a particular environment, but basically it is copying other ideas.

针对不同的环境，可能需要做些调整，但是基本上就是模仿他人的理论。

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WMO Secretary-General Michel Jarraud says countries must have the tools to adapt to a changing climate.

VOA: standard.2009.08.30

I think they probably also invented a few things, but it was very,very characteristic of the Greeks to borrow from the cultures they encountered and to adapt them, to make them more useful for their own purposes and nothing could be clearer than the alphabet as an example of that.

我认为他们或许也发明过一些事物,但从他们所遇到的文明中进行借鉴,将之应用到自己的生活中去,并使它们更适于希腊人自己的目的,这样的方式也是非常希腊风格的,也没有什么,能比字母表这个例子更能清晰地说明这点了

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

The EU leaders will also tackle another highly controversial issue how to share the costs of paying for developing nations to adapt to climate change.

VOA: standard.2009.10.29

And in this quest for what is best, positive psychology does not rely on wishful thinking, self-deception,or hand waving; instead,it tries to adapt what is best in the scientific method to the unique problems that human behavior presents " in all its complexity."

在追求理想状态时，积极心理学不会盲目主观，或自欺欺人;,相反，它尝试用最科学的方法来探究,极其复杂的人类行为所表现出来的,特殊问题“

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Agricultural research can ensure that a smallholder,the fisher person, the pastoralists,the forest dweller and the herder are provided with the means to adapt to climate change.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

You can adapt it for any sort of possible purpose, but the crucial thing is to keep the distinction between meaning and significance clear."

你可以为任何目的将其改编，但重要的是你必须,将意思和意义分清楚“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

He says the Sudanese have often struggled to adapt to life in Australia.

VOA: standard.2009.12.17

The body cannot adapt to a diet that has certain properties.

身体不能适应这样的饮食

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

The U.S.administration is also trying to adapt to the changing situation in Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.10.12

They have to adapt it to their own situation, but in many ways they're copying technology.

他们必须要将这些技术与当地国情相结合,但在很多方面他们仍是在重复这些技术

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Essentially we have to adapt more quickly to competition from other countries.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

The history of financial innovation is always that the organizations adapt to crisis.

历史上的金融创新基本上都是,组织机构对危机的一种适应

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One,we need consumer tastes to adapt to a reduced level.

VOA: standard.2010.04.22

"The first question anyone, when they are told that they have to adapt to climate change, they are going to ask, 'What is that change I have to adapt to?

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

And we need to adapt new methods of teaching them.

VOA: standard.2010.04.20

European Union leaders meeting in Brussels hailed an agreement on climate change, reached after weeks of wrangling over how much members should contribute to developing countries to adapt to global warming.

VOA: standard.2009.10.30

"They must produce a more stable system, one that protects consumers and investors, rewards innovation and is able to adapt and evolve with changes in the structure of our financial system."

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

But it adds that, even if aggressive policies are put in place to reduce future carbon emissions, steps must be taken now to adapt to greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere;

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

The agency report called for the need to adapt to an increase in more intense hurricanes in the Caribbean, above-average warming impact on glacier-dependent river flows in Central Asia,and droughts affecting fragile economies in North Africa.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

The goal is to come up with substantive, but workable solutions to cut greenhouse gas emissions,promote new, eco-friendly technologies, but also promote economic growth and investment and help the less developed nations to adapt to these new conditions.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

"We have faced an enemy who do not want to fight us force-on-force, rather they wanted to lay improvised explosive devices to halt us in our path and this summer total of 1,800 Improvised explosive devices laid in our path, so we have had to adapt quickly."

VOA: standard.2009.10.12

"Because it's happening so quickly, they haven't had time to adapt and change, if you imagine a climate changing over hundreds of thousands of years, bears and other animals would gradually move into other habitats,but because this is going to happen over decades, it will be too fast for them to adapt and look for other food sources,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.13

She says vampires also adapt well to many kinds of movies and books: those that are funny,sad, adventurous,scary or for young people.

VOA: special.2010.01.20

Amy Smith says vampires also adapt to the many local differences across the United States.

VOA: special.2010.01.20

It's really important no matter what career you go into if it's accounting or human resources or science career that you can think critically and creatively, you can work in teams, you can adapt to change and that's important for everybody."

VOA: special.2010.04.01

He says the funds so far proposed by rich countries to help poor nations adapt to climate change are insufficient.

VOA: standard.2009.12.11

"And so decisions that federal agencies are making will have an enormous impact in our ability to wisely adapt to climate change."

VOA: standard.2010.06.14