The count, I said, was a man entitled to respect, alike for his character and his acquirements.
我说,伯爵是一个值得尊重的人, 无论是因为他的品格还是他的学识。
格列佛游记(原版)
By all which acquirements, I should be a living treasure of knowledge and wisdom, and certainly become the oracle of the nation.
凭借所有这些学问,我应该成为知识和智慧的活宝,并且肯定会成为国家的神谕。
物种起源
The author (1855) has also treated Psychology on the principle of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation.
作者(1855 年)也根据每一种智力和能力的必要获得的原则来对待心理学。
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
They were prouder and happier in their new acquirement than they would have been in the scalping and skinning of the Six Nations.
与在六国剥皮和剥皮相比,他们对自己的新收获更加自豪和快乐。
米德尔马契(一)
All her eagerness for acquirement lay within that full current of sympathetic motive in which her ideas and impulses were habitually swept along.
她对获得的所有渴望都来自于她的思想和冲动习惯性地席卷而来的充满同情心的动机。
为女权辩护(上)
The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement for an immortal being, that really deserves the name of knowledge.
概括思想,从个人观察中得出综合结论的能力,是不朽的人唯一的获得,真正配得上知识的名称。
为女权辩护(下)
Posterity, however, will be more just; and remember that Catharine Macaulay was an example of intellectual acquirements supposed to be incompatible with the weakness of her sex.
Psychology will be securely based on the foundation already well laid by Mr. Herbert Spencer, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation.
The general sterility of crossed species may safely be looked at, not as a special acquirement or endowment, but as incidental on changes of an unknown nature in their sexual elements.