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acceleration = ac(加强) + celer(快) + ation(表结果) = n.加快，加速
acclimatise = ac(加强) + climat(环境) + ise(表动词) = （使）适应新气候或环境
enquir = en(进入) + quir(寻求) = 进入询问之中→询问
enquiry = en(进入) + quir(寻求) + y(表名词) = 进来寻求答案→询问； 调查
寻求得到→获取
acquire
常考释义
Long before cereal agriculture took hold far south of the Sahara, some hunter-gatherer groups in the savanna woodlands of eastern and southern Africa may have acquired cattle, and perhaps other domesticated animals, by gift exchange or through raids on herding neighbors.
在谷类农业占领最南部的撒哈拉沙漠之前，非洲东部和南部稀树草原地区的一些依靠狩猎和采集生活的人可能已经饲养了牛群和其他家养动物，他们将牲畜作为礼物交换，或者通过劫掠放牧的邻居，来获得这些牲畜。
来源于：阅读OFFICIAL52 P3vt. 获得；购得；得到；收购
Halladale acquired the property in July 1999.
哈拉戴尔于1999年7月获得这块地产。
General Motors acquired a 50% stake in Saab for about $400m.
通用汽车公司以大约4亿美元的价格收购了绅宝汽车公司50%的股份。
The shares will be acquired from Millennium's minority shareholders.
这些股份将从美礼联公司的少数股东那里获得。
I recently acquired some wood from a holly tree.
我最近从一棵冬青树上弄了些木头。
They told me, they acquired it long time ago.
他们告诉我是很久以前获得的。
来自《星际迷航3：超越星辰》
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Also, because the molecular motion of a gas depends on temperature, at the low temperatures of the Jovian planets even the lightest gases are unlikely to acquire the speed needed to escape.
同时又因为气体分子运动取决于温度，所以在类木行星这样的低温环境下，即使是最轻的气体也无法达到所需要的逃逸速度。
来源于：阅读OFFICIAL16 P3At such temperatures, the collision between the ice pellets and the ice crystals causes electrical charges to shift so that the ice pellets acquire a negative charge and the ice crystals become positively charged.
在此温度下，冰丸和冰晶的撞击会使电荷发生转移，冰丸由此获得了负电而冰晶获得了正电。
来源于：阅读OFFICIAL18 P3Mithen proposes the existence of four mental elements to account for the emergence of farming: the ability to develop tools that could be used intensively to harvest and process plant resources; the tendency to use plants and animals as the medium to acquire social prestige and power; the tendency to develop "social relationships" with animals structurally similar to those developed with people—specifically, the ability to think of animals as people (anthropomorphism) and of people as animals (totemism); and the tendency to manipulate plants and animals.
米森提出存在四种可以解释农业起源的心理因素：（1）打造集中用于收割以及加工植物资源的工具的能力；（2）将动植物作为获取社会声望和权力的手段的趋势；（3）与动物发展出与人类结构相似的“社会关系”的趋势——具体说就把动物当做人（神人同形同性论）以及把人当做动物（图腾崇拜）；（4）驯化动植物的趋势。
来源于：阅读OFFICIAL21 P2As railroad lines fanned out from Chicago, farmers began to acquire open prairie land in Illinois and then Iowa, putting the fertile, deep black soil into production.
当铁路线路从芝加哥呈扇形延伸开来，农民们开始获得伊利诺伊州的广阔草原地带，然后获得了洛瓦的大片草原，将这肥沃深袤的黑土地用于生产。
来源于：阅读OFFICIAL33 P2Such pieces perhaps first came with officials for their own religious worship; others were then acquired by native leaders as diplomatic gifts or by purchase.
这类物品可能起初是官员带来进行宗教礼拜的，之后是当地领导人通过外交馈赠或自己购买所得。
来源于：阅读OFFICIAL47 P1Then the Montessori teacher's job is to observe the child's play, because when the children play, they are acquiring the bases for later concepts.
那么，蒙台梭利老师的工作就是观察孩子的玩耍，因为当孩子们玩耍时，他们在为以后的思想概念（的形成）获取基础。
来源于：听力OFFICIAL49 L3Well, the Ottomans used a similar name for tulips after they acquired them from Persia.
土耳其帝国的人们在从波斯得到郁金香以后，用了和turban相似的名字来称呼它。
来源于：听力OFFICIAL38 L2Such buildings were so different from any previous form of architecture that they quickly acquired a new name—the skyscraper.
这样的建筑与传统的建筑大相径庭，以至于它们很快就获得了一个新的名字——摩天大楼。
来源于：阅读OFFICIAL37 P3Long before cereal agriculture took hold far south of the Sahara, some hunter-gatherer groups in the savanna woodlands of eastern and southern Africa may have acquired cattle, and perhaps other domesticated animals, by gift exchange or through raids on herding neighbors.
在谷类农业占领最南部的撒哈拉沙漠之前，非洲东部和南部稀树草原地区的一些依靠狩猎和采集生活的人可能已经饲养了牛群和其他家养动物，他们将牲畜作为礼物交换，或者通过劫掠放牧的邻居，来获得这些牲畜。
来源于：阅读OFFICIAL52 P3To acquire such land often required moving herds considerable distances, even from summer to winter pastures.
为了获得这样的土地，经常需要牛群移动相当远的距离，甚至是从夏季牧场移动到冬季牧场。
来源于：阅读OFFICIAL52 P3vt. 养成；形成；发展出
She has acquired some odd habits.
她养成了一些奇怪的习惯。
It's a trait she acquired from her mother.
这一特质是她从她妈妈那里学到的。
I've never acquired a taste for wine.
我一向喝不惯葡萄酒。
Such groups are the breeding grounds in which we acquire the norms and values that equip us for social life.
这种群体是我们社会生活必备规范和价值的培养地。
来源于：阅读OFFICIAL13 P1If it wants to have a smooth texture, it flattens out the papillae, so it can acquire a smooth texture to blend in with the sandy bottom of the sea.
如果它想要纹理光滑一些，它就把身上的“触头”变得平整，这样它看上去就会很光滑，能够和海底的沙地混淆起来。
来源于：听力OFFICIAL17 L6Others have blamed extinction on competition from the mammals, which allegedly ate all the dinosaur eggs—except that mammals and dinosaurs appeared at the same time in the Late Triassic, about 190 million years ago, and there is no reason to believe that mammals suddenly acquired a taste for dinosaur eggs after 120 million years of coexistence.
也有科学家将恐龙的灭绝归咎于哺乳动物的竞争，据说是它们吃掉了所有的恐龙蛋——但是，哺乳动物和恐龙都生活在在约1.9亿万年前的晚三叠世，没理由说哺乳动物在和恐龙共同生活了1.2亿万年之后，忽然爱吃恐龙蛋了。
来源于：阅读OFFICIAL42 P2vt. 学到；学得，习得
The rate at which children acquire language varies greatly.
孩子习得语言的速度差异很大。
vt. 患上；染上
Ryan was 13 when he acquired AIDS from a blood transfusion.
瑞安13岁时由于输血患了艾滋病。
vt. 赢得
Dave has acquired a reputation as a long-distance runner.
戴夫赢得了长跑健将的美名。
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