1SSFLOOK AFTER somebodyan adopted child has been legally made part of a family that he or she was not born into 领养的,收养的
his adopted son
他的养子
2.CHOOSEyour adopted country is one that you have chosen to live in permanently 〔国家〕选择定居的,移居的
Examples from the Corpus
adopted• If we believe this, I think it makes the challenge of bringing up adopted children an easiertask.• He had been roaming New Orleans, his adoptedcity, for two days.• Another of Mia's children, 14-year-old Moses, repeatedallegations that Allen had sexually abused his seven-year-old adopteddaughter Dylan.• The couplesplit up after Farrow sawnudepictures of her adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn, 21, taken by Allen.• Robbie had never met any of Caro's adopted family.• Even Bush's adopted home state of Texas gave Clinton a five percent lead.• But Dan Crawley's adoptedniece clearly shared Henry's faith in the equine world.• The Browns have one adoptedson.