acquire是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 获得, 取得，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I perceive that people in these regions acquire over people in towns the value that a spider in a dungeon does over a spider in a cottage, to their various occupants; and yet the deepened attraction is not entirely owing to the situation of the looker on.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On evenings when the Doc was away, Martin would acquire prestige among the trembling Gang by leading them into the unutterable darkness and scratching a sulfur match on the skeleton's jaw.
-- The only variation is the Weeks in which the object is not to acquire money immediately by the sale of tags but by general advertising to get more of it later.
-- Martin sought to acquire a delight in giving long strong pulls all together, but he felt like a man who has been dragooned into wearing yellow tights at a civic pageant.
-- Then Ross McGurk, over a comfortable steak, hinted, not too diffidently, that this was the opportunity for the Institute to acquire world-fame.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Strickland's sister was older than she, not unlike her, but more faded; and she had the efficient air, as though she carried the British Empire in her pocket, which the wives of senior officers acquire from the consciousness of belonging to a superior caste.
-- The years during which he was struggling to acquire proficiency in a difficult art were monotonous, and I do not know that there was anything significant in the shifts to which he was put to earn enough money to keep him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Myeldest daughter attends at five every morning in a neighbouringestablishment, to acquire the process- if process it may be called-of milking cows.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He has had great faults, faults of inconsideration and thoughtlessness; and I am very much of his opinion in thinking him likely to be happier than he deserves: but still as he is, beyond a doubt, really attached to Miss Fairfax, and will soon, it may be hoped, have the advantage of being constantly with her, I am very ready to believe his character will improve, and acquire from hers the steadiness and delicacy of principle that it wants.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The facility with which even the most timid women sometimes acquire a relish for the dreadful when that is amalgamated with a little triumph, is marvellous.
-- Nevertheless, that a male dissembler who by deluging her with untenable fictions charms the female wisely, may acquire powers reaching to the extremity of perdition, is a truth taught to many by unsought and wringing occurrences.
-- Moreover, should he resolve not to return at all, a tale of his being alive and being in the neighbourhood would be awkward; and he was anxious to acquire a knowledge of his wife's temporal affairs before deciding which to do.
-- She was bewildered too by the prospect of having to rely on her own resources again: it seemed to herself that she never could again acquire energy sufficient to go to market, barter, and sell.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There are women who will fall in love with a man because another woman has chosen him; like the city madams, poor things, who copy our millinery, and hope thereby to acquire our manners.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquire- 19ment of the knowledge which I sought, for the dominion I should acquire and transmit over the elemental foes of our race.
-- He had come forth from the hands of God a perfect creature, happy and pros-perous, guarded by the especial care of his Creator; he was allowed to converse with and acquire knowledge from be-ings of a superior nature, but I was wretched, helpless, and alone.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was no need for him to acquire a good head for whisky, he had beenborn with one.
-- Gerald had lived in Savannah long enough to acquire a viewpoint of the Coast that all of therest of the state was backwoods, with an Indian lurking in every thicket.
-- Gerald upbraided Pork for his impertinence, hut he knew that he was right He wanted a wife and he wantedchildren and, if he did not acquire them soon, it would be too late.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He said, 'he had been very seriously considering my whole sto-ry, as far as it related both to myself and my country; that he looked upon us as a sort of animals, to whose share, by what accident he could not conjecture, some small pittance 329of reason had fallen, whereof we made no other use, than by its assistance, to aggravate our natural corruptions, and to acquire new ones, which nature had not given us; that we disarmed ourselves of the few abilities she had bestowed; had been very successful in multiplying our original wants, and seemed to spend our whole lives in vain endeavours to supply them by our own inventions; that, as to myself, it was manifest I had neither the strength nor agility of a common Yahoo; that I walked infirmly on my hinder feet; had found out a contrivance to make my claws of no use or defence, and to remove the hair from my chin, which was intended as a shelter from the sun and the weather: lastly, that I could neither run with speed, nor climb trees like my brethren,' as he called them, 'the Yahoos in his country.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So, Mr. Bounderby threw on his hat he always threw it on, as expressing a man who had been far too busily employed in making himself, to acquire any fashion of wearing his hat and with his hands in his pockets, sauntered out into the hall.
-- 'I am so unhappy, and all that should have made me otherwise is so laid waste, that if I had been bereft of sense to this hour, and instead of being as learned as you think me, had to begin to acquire the simplest truths, I could not want a guide to peace, contentment, honour, all the good of which I am quite devoid, more abjectly than I do.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As Oliver accompanied his master in most of his adult expeditions too, in order that he might acquire that equanimity of demeanour and full command of nerve which was essential to a finished undertaker, he had many opportunities of observing the beautiful resignation and fortitude with which some strong-minded people bear their trials and losses.
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