Albeit his predecessors were active both in war and peace, and precedent in acquiring their estate; yet this man acquired more than all that went before him, and made such a solid progress in it, that what he had acquired was with the goodwill of his sovereign, and clear unquestionable purchase." He protected his nephew, Torquil Macleod of the Lewis, when he was oppressed by his unnatural relations and natural brothers, and from his he acquired a right to the lands of Assynt. [Earl of Cromartie and other MS. Histories of the Family.]英文原著 · 《History Of The Mackenzies》
The case is the same with all structural variations of animal parts, which are not absolutely insignificant. When the insects acquired wings they must also have acquired the mechanism with which to move them--the musculature, and the nervous apparatus necessary for its automatic regulation. All instincts depend upon compound reflex mechanisms and are just as indispensable as the parts they have to set in motion, and all may have arisen through processes of selection if the reasons which I have elsewhere given for this view are correct. ("The Evolution Theory", London, 1904, page 144.)英文原著 · 《Darwin and Modern Science》
The Northwest was acquired in the midst of the Revolution only by armed conquest, and if it had not been so acquired, it would have remained a part of the British Dominion of Canada.英文原著 · 《Hero Tales From American History》
Demon speaks first of Friedrich's stature, 5ft. (as we know better than this Demon); "pretty well proportioned, not handsome, and even something of awkward (GAUCHE), acquired by a constrained bearing [head slightly off the perpendicular, acquired by his flute, say the better-informed]. Is of the greatest politeness. Fine tone of voice,--fine even in swearing, which is as common with him as with a grenadier," adds this Demon; not worth attending to, on such points.英文原著 · 《History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 16》
We may therefore conclude that the real substance, as it may be called, of what goes under the name of taste, is fixed and established in the nature of things; that there are certain and regular causes by which the imagination and passions of men are affected; and that the knowledge of these causes is acquired by a laborious and diligent investigation of nature, and by the same slow progress as wisdom or knowledge of every kind, however instantaneous its operations may appear when thus acquired.英文原著 · 《Seven Discourses on Art》
It is conceivable that the common law should go so far as to deal with possession in the same way as a title, and should hold that, when it has once been acquired, rights are acquired which continue to prevail against all the world but one, until something has happened sufficient to divest ownership.英文原著 · 《The Common Law》
Kemlot Bio-chem is getting acquired by Far East P&C at over a hundred dollars a share in cash and stock.美剧 · 《Billions》
Bryan has a particular set of skills, skills acquired over a long career, skills that make him -- The object of a stewardess's desperate lust.美剧 · 《Billions》
- No. - Or are you like everyone else in thinking that, because she's a countess, she has acquired universal knowledge by divine intervention?美剧 · 《Downton Abbey》
But meanings that were acquired within the realm of social interaction. but meanings that were acquired within the realm of social interaction.演讲 · 《A new way to diagnose autism ~ Ami Klin》
There is much opportunity for anyone willing to dedicate himself to his labors Already, I have acquired a reputation for honesty and fair dealing电影 · 《Legends Of The Fall (1994)》