Acquirement

(n.) The act of acquiring, or that which is acquired; attainment.

整理:康拉德

• All her eagerness for acquirement lay within that full current of sympathetic motive in which her ideas and impulses were habitually swept along. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• For a time this new acquirement seems to have overshadowed their earlier achievement of drawing, and possibly it checked the use of gesture. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The acquirement of personal experience from surrounding objects constitutes that of things. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• He was much surprised and pleased with this new acquirement which had been so suddenly thrust upon him, but he had no time for thinking much upon it. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• The author (1855) has also treated Psychology on the principle of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• By all which acquirements, I should be a living treasure of knowledge and wisdom, and certainly become the oracle of the nation. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• He was a French gentleman; a scientific gentleman; a man of great acquirements--a Doctor. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• One of these was the son of a country-curate; he was a generous, frank-hearted youth, with an ardent love of knowledge, and no mean acquirements. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• I could have exulted to burst on his vision, confront and confound his lunettes, one blaze of acquirements. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• I really had no objection to going to West Point, except that I had a very exalted idea of the acquirements necessary to get through. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Her beauty and acquirements had held but a second place. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.

校对:奥利弗