中国10大商业街:adopt,breed,raise作“养”讲，怎么区别？

To take into one's family through legal means and raise as one's own child.
收养，过继：通过合法手段吸收为家庭中的一员并作自己的孩子抚养
To take and follow (a course of action, for example) by choice or assent:
采用：经选择或同意而接受并采用（例如，行为过程）：
adopt a new technique.
采用新技术
To take up and make one's own:
采纳：接受并成为己有：
adopt a new idea.
采纳新意见
To take on or assume:
采取：采用或接受：
adopted an air of importance.
采取自以为是的态度
To vote to accept:
批准：表决通过：
adopt a resolution.
决议
To choose as standard or required in a course:
选定：作为标准选择或在一个过程中所必须的：
adopt a new line of English textbooks.
选择英语教材的新方式

v.tr.（及物动词）
To produce (offspring); give birth to or hatch.
产（后代）；生，孵
To bring about; engender.
产生：导致
To cause to reproduce, especially by controlled mating and selection:
改良品种：尤指通过人工交配和选种，使…再生：
breed cattle.
使牛交配
To develop new or improved strains in (organisms), chiefly through controlled mating and selection of offspring for desirable traits.
优生交配：培育，多指通过人工交配和选择后代而获得所期望的特征，发展新的或改良（有机体）的品种
To mate with.
与…交配
To rear or train; bring up.
养育，训练；抚养
To produce (fissionable material) in a breeder reactor.
产生裂变的物质：增殖，指在增殖反应堆里产生（可裂变的物质）
To be the place of origin of.
是…的产地
v.intr.（不及物动词）
To produce offspring.
产仔
To originate and thrive:
繁殖，旺盛生长：
Fads breed in empty heads and full purses.
流行时尚从空虚的头脑和鼓胀的钱包中产生
生育; 孵(卵); 怀(胎)
交配; 繁殖, 饲养
教养, 培育; 训练
滋生; 造成
再生, 增殖

To grow, especially in quantity; cultivate:
种植，栽培，繁殖：增长，尤指面数量方面；种植：
raise corn and soybeans.
种玉米和大豆
To breed and care for to maturity:
饲养：繁殖并照顾到成熟：
raise cattle.
饲养家畜
To bring up; rear:
抚养；养育：
raise children.
抚养孩子

adopt 是收养,你看中间那个o是不是像个张开的嘴,很饿啊~~就是要养活(他),养家什么的

breed 饲养 动物之类的,一定是家禽 鸡鸭什么的

raise 养人,抚育小孩子

adopt [简明英汉词典]
[E5dCpt]
vt.采用, 收养
breed [简明英汉词典]
[bri:d]
v.(使)繁殖, 教养, 抚养
n.品种, 种类
raise [简明英汉词典]
[reiz]
n.上升, 高地, 提出
vt.升起, 唤起, 提高, 使出现, 解除, 饲养, 筹集, 使复活