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词汇 co-opting
释义 co-opting
present participle 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。
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Examples of co-opting


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In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


Regarding co-construction, we might ask whether collaboration results in co-construction of knowledge or co-opting of knowledge.
The requirement to take an oath was a form of insurance on behalf of the co-opting group.
In the civil rights movement, compelling positive federal intervention had the further effect of co-opting the federal government's discursive authority for the protestors' side.
Exaptation, or the co-opting of previously evolved functions to do new things, can seriously compromise robotic simulation.
This process of rapid innovation and co-opting of each other's ideas has reduced the hedging costs of caps and swap options.
The subcommittees met 77 times, co-opting 72 officials, and interviewing 87 witnesses.
It incorporated citizens and leaders into participatory forums without co-opting them.
In this process it is not clear who is co-opting whom.
This continuity across species suggests that language came to this region not by co-opting existing visuomotor functions but rather as a separate and entirely unrelated adaptation.
Religion's reliance on structures originally evolved for different tasks is evolutionarily parsimonious and parallels numerous other adaptations, such as the co-opting of insulating bird feathers for flight.
In regard to the co-opting of members of these committees the ultimate control is in the hands of the council.
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The principle of co-opting people for this kind of thing is wrong.
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Has there not been far too much co-opting?
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Is the co-opting body to be the county council, or is it to be the new body, which is a different thing?
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That education committee will be subject to the normal procedures for the co-opting of members.
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