Accept

(verb.) tolerate or accommodate oneself to; 'I shall have to accept these unpleasant working conditions'; 'I swallowed the insult'; 'She has learned to live with her husband's little idiosyncrasies'.

(verb.) consider or hold as true; 'I cannot accept the dogma of this church'; 'accept an argument'.

(verb.) be sexually responsive to, used of a female domesticated mammal; 'The cow accepted the bull'.

(verb.) react favorably to; consider right and proper; 'People did not accept atonal music at that time'; 'We accept the idea of universal health care'.

(verb.) give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to; 'I cannot accept your invitation'; 'I go for this resolution'.

(verb.) receive (a report) officially, as from a committee.

(verb.) receive willingly something given or offered; 'The only girl who would have him was the miller's daughter'; 'I won't have this dog in my house!'; 'Please accept my present'.

(verb.) admit into a group or community; 'accept students for graduate study'; 'We'll have to vote on whether or not to admit a new member'.

(verb.) be designed to hold or take; 'This surface will not take the dye'.

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• Instead she insisted that he accept, and, indeed, take her with him. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Then she said, with a slight touch of irritation: I don't care to accept a portrait from Paul Morpeth. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Men find themselves a part of Merry England or Holy Russia; they grow up into these devotions; they accept them as a part of their nature. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• And had I had an idea of it, nothing should have induced me to accept the necklace. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• I thank you, and accept your generous offer. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• Yes; and we accept his authority. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• We should accept our own lot, whatever it be, and try to render happy that of others. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• They accepted the service with alacrity. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Once the grotesqueness of the situation accepted, she had seen at a glance that it was the safest in which Dorset could find himself. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Mr. Bennet accepted the challenge, observing that he acted very wisely in leaving the girls to their own trifling amusements. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• I should have been fond enough of you even to go that length, and you would have accepted my invitation--you would, sir, twenty years ago! 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Lieutenant Grant offered his services, which were accepted. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• We all accepted his invitation on account of his party. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• He accepted his punishment with the toughest stoicism. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• And at Miss Halcombe's service, if she will honour me by accepting all the assistance I can offer her. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Butthat he should talk of encouragement, should consider her as aware of his views, accepting his attentions, meaning (in short), to marry him! 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• The ephemeral nature of the vast majority of hypotheses and the dange r to progress of accepting an unverified assumption justify the demand for demonstrative e vidence. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The other lion was the fact that they were poor and Laurie rich, for this made them shy of accepting favors which they could not return. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Accepting your illustration, surely we have one unquestionable virtue in England which is wanting in China. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• I should hold myself guilty of greater impropriety in accepting a horse from my brother, than from Willoughby. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• But, my dear sister, can I be happy, even supposing the best, in accepting a man whose sisters and friends are all wishing him to marry elsewhere? 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• Of course if a woman accepts the wrong man, she must take the consequences, and one who does it twice over deserves her fate. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I may not deny what thou hast challenged, said the Grand Master, provided the maiden accepts thee as her champion. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Plato defined a slave as one who accepts from another the purposes which control his conduct. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• And so I am not to be surprized that Jane Fairfax accepts her civilities and consents to be with her. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• It accepts monarchy where it finds it, but it is not necessarily a monarchist movement. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Does your qualification lie in the superior knowledge of men which accepts, courts, and puffs this man? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• One accepts, for the most part, the studies of the existing course and then assigns values to them as a sufficient reason for their being taught. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.

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