| 词汇 | acquired |
| 释义 | acquired past simple and past participle ofacquire acquire verb[ T ] uk /əˈkwaɪər/ us /əˈkwaɪɚ/ B2 to get or obtain something: 取得，获得;购得;学到 From humble beginnings he went on to acquire great wealth. newly acquired I was wearing a newly acquired jacket.我穿着一件新买的夹克衫。 recently acquired The museum will put the recently acquired Picasso on display this spring. seem to have acquired I seem to have acquired (= have got although I don't know how) two copies of this book.这本书我好像买重了。 Synonyms buy(PAY FOR) get(OBTAIN) get hold ofinformal obtain(GET)formal pick something up(BUY) purchaseformal snap something upinformal to receive or be given something getI got a new bike for my birthday. receiveYou will receive your tickets by email. obtainAfter many years of trying, she finally obtained Brazilian citizenship. gainYou will improve at the job as you gain experience. earnEventually, you will earn the dog's trust. achieveShe achieved top marks in the physics exam. business specialized to buy a business or property, or buy shares in a business: He acquired the firm in 2008. In 1949 the property was acquired by United Steel Companies. The airline will acquire a 49 percent share of its rival. It took several years to find and acquire the land needed for the project. media, publishing specialized to buy or obtain the right to sell or publish something, for example the right to publish a particular work or the works of a particular writer: He acquired Winnie the Pooh merchandising rights from A. A. Milne, the author of the children's stories. The book was acquired by Sarah McGill, an editor at Riverdale Books. Warner Bros. acquired the rights to the movie in North America. to gradually learn or gain something such as a language or skill: We want to understand more about how children acquire language. The purpose of university is to acquire knowledge and critical thinking skills. acquire a habitWith practice, students can acquire better study habits. acquire a reputation He has acquired a reputation for being difficult to work with. acquire a taste forI soon acquired a taste for the local cuisine. medical specialized to develop a medical condition or catch a disease that you were not born with: They develop gene therapy products for the treatment of acquired and inherited diseases. They estimate that millions of patients every year acquire infections while in hospital. She acquired the painting at a jumble sale for the princely sum of 25p.她在旧货拍卖会上以25便士的巨款拍得此画。 When she married Giles, she acquired a ready-made family - two teenage sons and a daughter.她嫁给了贾尔斯，也就接过来一个现成的家庭——两个十几岁的儿子和一个女儿。 As people grow older, their faces acquire more character.随着年龄的增长，人的脸会越来越具有个性。 To build his market share, he acquired the rights to existing games such as Clue, Sorry and Risk, rather than depending solely on himself to invent new games. I didn't like red wine before but I acquired a taste for it while I was living in France. He acquired a reputation as an entertaining speaker. Getting, receiving and accepting acceptance acquirable acquire acquisition awardee carve draw earn get back get out of something get/lay/put your hands on someoneidiom glom onto something/someone go to someone score screw screw something out of someone seize seize on/upon something snap something up You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Buying Mergers & acquisitions Cinema & theatre: production, direction & recording Learning & knowing Having and owning - general words Being & falling ill Idioman acquired taste Examples of acquiredacquired In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. The share it acquired depended on the daughters' present circumstances, on whether they were unmarried, married, or returned from marriage as a widow or divorcée. So, such representations could only be acquired as identical (' homophonous '). The first layer to be removed is an acquired political habit. Heuvel stresses he was a misfit, opposing the dominant trend and then, when what he advocated acquired power, turning against it as it became corrupt. Other representations concerned with technical, cognitive and musical skills may be acquired concurrently. In general, lower frequency words will tend to be encountered and acquired (and are also taught) later than higher frequency words. For example, if the claimant suffered no loss, must wrongfully acquired gains be disbursed? Pollinaria are natural markers of insect visits to orchids, as there are no other obvious means by which they would be acquired by insects. Examination of eels on day 112 revealed no indication for acquired immunity resulting from the primary infection. The presence of dead parasites may not confer an acquired immunity to re-infection. From 1880 to 1916, the use of coercive powers by the president acquired a different dimension. The similarity between normal readers and developmental and acquired dyslexics. And even as an acquired capacity it is not static but is continually influenced by ongoing changes in context. Volunteers felt that they had acquired a purpose to their lives and had enjoyed meeting similar others. In addition, considerable experience was acquired in the modulation and elimination of infection, usually with chemotherapeutic agents. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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