词汇 | co-opted |
释义 | co-opted past participle, past simple ofco-opt co-opt verb[ T ] uk /kəʊˈɒpt/ us /koʊˈɑːpt/ (of an elected group) to make someone a member through the choice of the present members: (指由现有成员)增选…为新成员,推举…为新成员 She was co-opted on to the committee last June.去年6月她被增选为委员会成员。 to include someone in something, often against their will: 强行拉进;拉拢,笼络 Whether they liked it or not, local people were co-opted into the victory parade.不管愿不愿意,当地人都被强拉参加了胜利大游行。 to use someone else's ideas: 借鉴,借用(别人的观点) Rock and roll music was largely co-opted from the blues.摇滚乐大量借鉴了布鲁斯音乐。 Applying for a job acqui-hire advertisement anoint anointed applicant EDIB elect employ employable employment employment agency nominate nomination nominee recruitment drive referee rehire reinstate reinstatement relocation expenses You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Causing somebody to act Copying and copies Examples of co-optedco-opted In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Typologists may be puzzled to see their methods co-opted to back up minimalist syntax. Numerous civil groups were co-opted and even sponsored for antidemocratic objectives. In other words, they allowed themselves to be co-opted into the urban religious hierarchy and in turn transformed their wilderness retreat into a settlement. Some of the techniques discussed earlier may be co-opted. And finally, the increasing commercialisation of glitch means the critique is being co-opted and sold back to those who produced it in the first place. The women's self-empowerment movement is co-opted to promote the utilization of cholesterol-lowering drugs. Seen from the perspective of the co-opted and bureaucratized movement member, tension, ambivalence, opposition, and conflict is woven into the entanglement. Under such conditions, environmental regulations can even be co-opted to keep new, cleaner entrants out and further solidify the dominance of old, heavily polluting industries. Finally, social movements drove the issue forward till interest groups transformed (or co-opted) the campaign into standard interest-group and party politics. The coordination of work in the pursuit of subsistence eventually may have been co-opted by elites. In this scenario, the future for participants is often precarious, and success depends on the ability to be co-opted or excluded by the market. However, not all of the nationalists were co-opted by the colonial regime. Nonetheless, popular culture was also frequently co-opted, and buttressed, rather than challenged, the bourgeois social order. The white tip has been co-opted (recruited) for use in these behaviour patterns. After all, it is common enough in biology for a system initially selected for one purpose to be co-opted and used for another. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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