accept 强调主动地或自愿地接受，或者说，经过考虑后同意接受。
receive 着重仅仅接到或收到这一支轮船或事实，而不含采取主动或积极行动的意思。
admit 作“接受”讲时，强调准许或批准。
take 与receive同意，是receive的日常用法，侧重不带主观意愿地收下或接受。
参考例句
1. He accepted blindly anything printed. 他盲目相信一切印刷品。
2. To pursue transcendence means to accept loneliness. 追逐卓越意味着要接受孤独。
3. Nevertheless authorities have to accept the assignment. 但这是当局必须承担的任务。
英英解释
v.
1. consider or hold as true
2. receive willingly something given or offered
3. give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to
4. react favorably to; consider right and proper
5. admit into a group or community
6. take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person
7. tolerate or accommodate oneself to
8. be designed to hold or take
9. receive (a report) officially, as from a committee
10. make use of or accept for some purpose
11. be sexually responsive to, used of a female domesticated mammal
