| 词汇 | acquiring |
| 释义 | acquiring present 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 acquiringacquiring In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Effects of learning method and word type on acquiring vocabulary in an unfamiliar language. By contrast, in our public culture, such taxes are understood as a way to prevent the already well off from acquiring even more advantages. Thus, if some scroungers are tolerated (and perhaps provide other benefits), it can still be in producers' interests to continue acquiring food. 14. Instead, farmers try to expand profits by acquiring more land, which drives up land prices. Capital requirements for acquiring these skills are borne by guardians or parents. I am interested both in acquiring those recordings that are available commercially and in finding those that can be auditioned only in libraries. But this should not deter them from acquiring these volumes. Through acquiring information that helps us to understand the instruments, we are able to define conservation, communication and exposition criteria. On acquiring the structural representations for false complements. He estimates the impact on mortality and costs of larger hospitals acquiring smaller hospitals. We argue that there are specific neural markers for acquiring vocabulary and there are cross-linguistic differences in these markers. This book would be a great asset as an aid to acquiring literacy, but its musical contribution is weaker. Breeding programmes began in the 1970s and are acquiring inter national importance. A sojourn in the colonies could, in fact, be a means of acquiring fame and wealth. The mode of acquiring property rights in these lands varied considerably. 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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