acquire

英语

词源

来自中古英语 acqueren，来自古法语 aquerre，来自拉丁语 acquirō；ad- + quaerō (“在……中搜索”)。参见quest。

发音

• (通用美式) 国际音标^(帮助): /əˈkwaɪəɹ/
• (标准英音) 国际音标^(帮助): /əˈkwaɪə/

• 音频 (美国)：

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• 韵部：-aɪə(ɹ)
• 断字：ac‧quire

动词

acquire (第三人称单数简单现在时 acquires，现在分词 acquiring，一般过去时及过去分词 acquired)

1. (及物) 获得，取得

   all the riches he acquired were from hard work.

   他获得的所有财富都来自辛勤劳动。

   One should acquire as much knowledge as possible from reading.

   人应该通过阅读尽可能多地获取知识。

   to acquire a skill ― 学到一门技术

   to acquire decent habits and manners ― 养成良好的习惯和礼仪

   • Template:RQ:Barrow Sermon

     No virtue is acquired in an instant, but by degrees, step by step.

   • Template:RQ:Blackstone Commentaries

     Descent is the title whereby a man, on the death of his ancestor, acquires his estate, by right of representation, as his heir at law.

   • 1922, Michael Arlen, “3/19/2”, 出自 “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:

     Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house ; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something ; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.

     （请为本引文添加中文翻译）

2. (医学) 得病，染病
3. (计算机) 捕获

同义词

• (获得)： attain, come by, earn, gain, obtain, procure, secure, win

反义词

• (获得)： abandon, lose

衍生词

• acquired taste
• after-acquired title
• pre-acquired

 

相关词

• acquisition
• acquirement
• acquisitive
• acquisitory

参见

• obtain
• reach

拉丁语

动词

acquīre

1. acquīrō 的第二人称单数现在时主动态命令式