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Attain

英式发音:[ə'teɪn] or [ə'ten] 美式发音

    (v. t.) To achieve or accomplish, that is, to reach by efforts; to gain; to compass; as, to attain rest.

    (v. t.) To gain or obtain possession of; to acquire.

    (v. t.) To get at the knowledge of; to ascertain.

    (v. t.) To reach or come to, by progression or motion; to arrive at.

    (v. t.) To overtake.

    (v. t.) To reach in excellence or degree; to equal.

    (v. i.) To come or arrive, by motion, growth, bodily exertion, or efforts toward a place, object, state, etc.; to reach.

    (v. i.) To come or arrive, by an effort of mind.

    (n.) Attainment.

    整理:莎丽


Attain

双语例句


  • This increase of evaporative power increased the speed the engine could attain. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
  • With Plato the investigation of nature is another department of knowledge, and in this he seeks to attain only probable conclusions (Timaeus). 柏拉图. 理想国.
  • AFTER these events, it was long before we were able to attain any degree of composure. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
  • God knows, I put my trust in his vows, and believe his asserted faith--but for that, I would not seek what I am now resolved to attain. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
  • Few are they who are able to attain to the sight of this. 柏拉图. 理想国.
  • Hard as she had tried in her laborious life to attain many ends, she had never tried harder than she did now, to be varnished by Mrs General. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
  • Mechanical perfection is as nearly approached as it is possible for the best brains and the most approved methods of manufacture to attain. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
  • It was not, however, till the invention of telegraphs that anything approaching to the means of holding regular communication by signals was attained. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
  • When rotating at the rate of 788 revolutions in a minute, and lifting the water 19·4 feet, the greatest practical effect, compared with the power employed, was attained. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
  • I beg to say, that when I use the word, gentleman, I use it in the sense in which the degree may be attained by any man. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
  • The Wrights’ system of balance, the great original feature of their invention, is attained by what is called the warping of the wings. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
  • How else are these marvels of symmetry, cleanliness, and order attained? 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
  • Tom had sat upon the bed, swinging one leg and sucking his walking-stick with sufficient unconcern, until the visit had attained this stage. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
  • Three other engines competed with the Rocket, two of which had attained great speed on previous trials. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
  • Yes--yes--the end is not so difficult; if I had only a brain active enough to ferret out the means of attaining it. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
  • For he was gradually attaining his object in life, and that, to Lily, was always less despicable than to miss it. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
  • And without divine help, said Adeimantus, they will go on for ever making and mending their laws and their lives in the hope of attaining perfection. 柏拉图. 理想国.
  • The opinions of those who have most studied the subject differ as to the possibility of ever attaining that desired object. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
  • But it is one of the things that makes people be treated as reliable who would ordinarily have to spend much more time before attaining that category. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
  • About the same time Robert Davidson, a Scotchman, experimented with an electric railway car sixteen feet long, weighing six tons, and attaining a speed of four miles an hour. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
  • Instead of operating on their own account they are reduced to mere servants of attaining pleasure and avoiding pain. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
  • It is the soil in which invention flourishes and the organized knowledge of science attains its greatest reality. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
  • And do you also agree, I said, in describing the dialectician as one who attains a conception of the essence of each thing? 柏拉图. 理想国.

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