Acquire

(verb.) win something through one's efforts; 'I acquired a passing knowledge of Chinese'; 'Gain an understanding of international finance' .

(verb.) locate (a moving entity) by means of a tracking system such as radar .

录入:罗兰

• From him the poor may learn to acquire wealth, and the rich to adapt it to the purposes of beneficence. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• This signifies the capacity to acquire habits, or develop definite dispositions. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• A particular shade of any colour may acquire a new degree of liveliness or brightness without any other variation. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• I never knew Joe to remember anything from one Sunday to another, or to acquire, under my tuition, any piece of information whatever. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Having a ready-made existence on their own account, their relation to mind is exhausted in what they furnish it to acquire. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• I teach you a little each time I see you and eventually you will acquire an education. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• But when you are old, you acquire one excellent habit. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• The jealousy of the artist to maintain that reputation, which his ingenuity has justly acquired, has urged him to unnecessary pains on this subject. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• In ordinary talk they might have passed unheeded; but following on her prolonged pause they acquired a special meaning. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• After the effervescence has ceased, a taste of the liquid will show you that the lemon juice has lost its acid nature, and has acquired in exchange a salty taste. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• I have said, that the defects of her character awoke and acquired vigour from her unnatural position. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Torpedo boats of this type have been acquired by, and now form a part of, the United States Navy. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• They had generally acquired some of the vices of civilization, but none of the virtues, except in individual cases. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• I very nearly acquired the jargon at Silverton's age, and I know how names can alter the colour of beliefs. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Acquiring is always secondary, and instrumental to the act of inquiring. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• To recur to our previous illustration, the process of acquiring language is a practically perfect model of proper educative growth. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Holmes's card sent in to the manager ensured instant attention, and he was not long in acquiring all the information he needed. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• She knew she could not afford it, and she was afraid of acquiring so expensive a taste. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• His love of acquiring knowledge grew as he traveled, and he studied natural history, geology and chemistry. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• The Glacier National Park is the latest addition to the series of great natural attractions which the United States Government has been acquiring for years. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• I feel an ambition to arise in me of contributing to the instruction of mankind, and of acquiring a name by my inventions and discoveries. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• The mind acquires through language a field of activity independent of the objective world. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• One is sometimes teased into going out, till one acquires a sort of habit of society, which it becomes difficult to throw off. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• The babe acquires, as we well say, the mother tongue. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Volumnia's pet little scream acquires a considerable augmentation of reality from this surprise, and the house is quickly in commotion. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The accompanying expansion reduces the temperature to a very low degree, and the brine which circulates around the coil _E_ acquires a temperature below the freezing point of pure water. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• He from that moment acquires a degree of consideration which he never had before. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Still more important is the fact that the human being acquires a habit of learning. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.

校对:西蒙