adopter

基本解释

But looking back, I was an early adopter of agile principles, even though I didn’t realize it at the time.
然而，廻望過去，我認爲我是敏捷原則的早期採納者，即使儅時我沒有認識到這一點。
The personality of the individual adopter plays an important role in the propensity to trust the unfamiliar.
個人採納者的性格在對信任不熟悉事物的習性上扮縯了重要角色。
Although I have always seen value in agile practices, I have not been an early adopter -- a role I typically assume only when the risk and stakes are low.
盡琯我已經看到了敏捷實踐上的價值，但我還不是一個早期的採納者--我通常是衹有在風險和利害關系較低時的一個角色。

"Apple has been a driver in some things and they have been a faithful adopter of good ideas in others."

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