1.~ sth(通过努力、能力、行为表现)获得,得到to gain sth by your own efforts, ability or behaviour
She has acquired a good knowledge of English.她英语已经学得很好。
He has acquired a reputation for dishonesty.他得到了奸诈的名声。
I have recently acquired a taste for olives.我最近开始喜欢吃橄榄了。
2.~ sth购得;获得;得到to obtain sth by buying or being given it
The company has just acquired new premises.公司刚购得新办公楼。
I've suddenly acquired a stepbrother.我突然有了一个继兄。
U. S. Representative Steve Israel of New York says MANPADS are easy to acquire and have "become a weapon of choice among terrorists. "
纽约州众议员史蒂夫·伊斯雷尔(SteveIsrael)说,便携式防空系统容易获得,已经“成为恐怖分子首选的一种武器。”
If you see learning as needing to acquire a particular chunk of information you won't be able to see learning when they're playing.
如果你把学习当作需要获得某些具体信息,他们在游戏时,你就看不到他们在学习。
Later, terrorist groups unaffiliated with any national liberation movement would also find it relatively easy to acquire the assault rifle.
后来,和任何国家解放运动都无联系的恐怖组织也发现得到这种突击步枪相对容易。
It's not easy to do. But maybe there's a technology, just waiting to be invented, that will help us acquire this invaluable cognitive power.
这样做并不容易。但是,或许会有这么一种技术,它将帮助我们获得这种宝贵的认知能力。这种技术正等待着人类来发明。
Then it was pictured in one of my books, Science Fiction Poster Art, and a collector from California wanted to acquire it.
后来,我在《科幻海报艺术》(ScienceFictionPosterArt)一书中收入了它的照片,引起了加利福尼亚一位收藏者的兴趣。
It was the widespread use of the printing press that changed all that. The nature of words began to acquire an (apparently) settled meaning.
印刷术的普及改变了一切,词语的本质开始获得一个(似乎)固定的意思。
And, apparently, sometime during my mid-20's, I also began to acquire goals as if they were collectibles.
而且,在我二十来岁的时候我就开始收集目标了,就好像它们是一件件收藏品。
Chances are, within the next few months, you'll be asked at least once to acquire a new skill or body of knowledge.
有可能你会不止一次被要求在接下来的几个月里掌握一门新技术或新的知识体系。
Gesturing tends to work itself out as you acquire experience and confidence.
随着经验的积累和信心的增强,你会自然而然地学会打手势。
Such a means of communication is a basic mechanism that animals, including human beings, instinctively acquire and display.
这样的交流手段是动物包括人类,本能地索取和展示的一项基本机能。
His life experiences drove home to him the point that he had to acquire knowledge before he was able to accumulated wealth.
他的个人经历非常清楚明白地说明,他必须先掌握一定知识才能发家致富。
Whether I can go abroad for further study to get the master degree in a western university in future depends on how much GPA I can acquire.
我是否可以去研究,在未来的日子西方大学硕士学位,在国外,它取决于有多少我收购协定。
"SEO has been a great way for web sites to acquire new users, and will continue to be, " said CEO Seth Sternberg in am email last night.
“SEO(搜寻引擎优化))是网站获取新用户的一种不错的办法,而且它在将来仍将是。”首席执行官SethSternberg在昨天晚上的一封电子邮件中这样称。
Wireline formation testers have been commonly used to acquire formation pressures and reservoir fluid samples for a number of decades.
几十年来,电缆式地层测试器已经普遍地用于采集地层压力和油藏流体样品。
It is not easy to impart knowledge any more than to acquire knowledge.
传授知识与获得知识同样不容易。
If he had known what it had cost me to acquire my art, he would also have known that it would break any collector to buy it.
要是他知道我花费多少精力习得这门语言,那他一定得知道任何收藏家倾家荡产都难买到我这一藏品。
Wealth has always been what some people long for. It is true that most of them try to acquire wealth by means of honest labor.
财富一直是有些人所渴望的对象。确实,大多数人努力通过诚实的劳动来获得财富。
In the boom years, it seemed the only constraint on growth for China's property developers was how much land they could acquire.
几年房地产飞速发展的时候,看来唯一制约了中国房地产开发商增长的是他们能拿到多少地。
Now you might be wondering whether it is possible at all to acquire this ability.
现在你可能在想要是否真的能获得者项能力。
If it uses the money to acquire a major rival like Tudou, which is reportedly up for sale ( previous post), then so much the better.
如果优酷利用这笔资金并购了一个重量级的对手,譬如待价而沽的土豆网,那就更好了。
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