Acquiring

(noun.) the act of acquiring something; 'I envied his talent for acquiring'; 'he's much more interested in the getting than in the giving'.

校对:莎娜

• Acquiring is always secondary, and instrumental to the act of inquiring. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• To recur to our previous illustration, the process of acquiring language is a practically perfect model of proper educative growth. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Holmes's card sent in to the manager ensured instant attention, and he was not long in acquiring all the information he needed. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• She knew she could not afford it, and she was afraid of acquiring so expensive a taste. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• His love of acquiring knowledge grew as he traveled, and he studied natural history, geology and chemistry. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• The Glacier National Park is the latest addition to the series of great natural attractions which the United States Government has been acquiring for years. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• I feel an ambition to arise in me of contributing to the instruction of mankind, and of acquiring a name by my inventions and discoveries. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• I cannot boast of much success in acquiring the _reality_ of this virtue, but I had a good deal with regard to the appearance of it. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• And his romantic manner of acquiring it, make him conspicuous. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• For hundreds of centuries they were acquiring skill of hand and limb, and power and bulk of brain, in that still unknown environment. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• His main object in life seemed to be acquiring the art of throwing up wash-pitchers and catching them without breaking them. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• It is one of those cases where the art of the reasoner should be used rather for the sifting of details than for the acquiring of fresh evidence. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• The real price of every thing, what every thing really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• These thoughts exhilarated me, and led me to apply with fresh ardour to the acquiring the art of language. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• In modern times we hardly need to be reminded that the process of acquiring knowledge is here confused with the contemplation of absolute knowledge. 柏拉图. 理想国.

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