Acquisition

(noun.) the act of contracting or assuming or acquiring possession of something; 'the acquisition of wealth'; 'the acquisition of one company by another'.

(noun.) something acquired; 'a recent acquisition by the museum'.

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• As mere school studies, their acquisition has only a technical worth. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The acquisition of valuable and extensive property, therefore, necessarily requires the establishment of civil government. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The drill of the student involved chiefly the acquisition of the special signals employed in railway work, including the numerals and abbreviations applied to save time. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Education is not infrequently defined as consisting in the acquisition of those habits that effect an adjustment of an individual and his environment. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• His calling is the acquisition of secrets and the holding possession of such power as they give him, with no sharer or opponent in it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The general drift of the common man in this period in Europe was to set up his new acquisition, the Bible, as a counter authority to the church. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• If the acquisition of power in the shape of wealth caused this alteration, that power should they feel as an iron yoke. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• He would be a valuable acquisition with such an assistant as Nancy, and must (thus Fagin argued) be secured without delay. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• This is indeed an acquisition. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• By that peace the power of the Emperor was reduced to a shadow, and the acquisition of Alsace brought France up to the Rhine. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Those republics encouraged the acquisition of those exercises, by bestowing little premiums and badges of distinction upon those who excelled in them. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• She wore hers in state at church at Brompton, and was congratulated by her female friends upon the splendid acquisition. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• That she will faithfully apply herself to the acquisition of those accomplishments, upon the exercise of which she will be ultimately dependent. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The accumulation and acquisition of information for purposes of reproduction in recitation and examination is made too much of. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Why, Mr. Carstone, said Mrs. Badger, is very well and is, I assure you, a great acquisition to our society. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• It is impossible here to trace the events of the ninth and tenth centuries in any detail, the alliances, the treacheries, the claims and acquisitions. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Of these pictorial acquisitions Mr Meagles spoke in the usual manner. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Bedwin, his costumes, and black man, were hailed at Gaunt House as very valuable acquisitions. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Almost insensibly the originally revolutionary teaching was buried under these customary acquisitions. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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