1·You might object that professionals excavate to acquire knowledge, not money.
你可能会反对专业人士为了获取知识去挖掘，而不是金钱。
2·Most students attend a university mainly to acquire the knowledge needed for their chosen profession.
大多数学生上大学主要是为了获得他们所选择的职业所需的知识。
3·Thus, fever would make it more difficult for an infecting bacterium to acquire iron and thus to multiply.
因此，发烧会使感染细菌更难获得铁，从而更难繁殖。
4·Two years ago Facebook paid even more than that to acquire the WhatsApp messaging service, which doesn't have any physical product at all.
两年前，脸书为收购即时通讯服务 WhatsApp 支付了更高的价格，尽管 WhatsApp 根本没有任何实体产品。
5·At the individual level, a sense of social responsibility motivates us college students to acquire as much knowledge as possible and put it into practice.
在个人层面，社会责任感激励我们大学生尽可能多地获取知识并付诸实践。
6·Bailyn's third proposition suggests two general patterns prevailing among the many thousands of migrants: one group came as indentured servants, another came to acquire land.
贝林的第三个主张提出了在成千上万的移民中普遍存在的两种模式：一种是契约仆役，另一种是为了获得土地。
7·Highly motivated students find learning pleasant and rewarding, and therefore maintain a strong desire to acquire new knowledge and skills, and enough courage to meet new challenges.
上进心强的学生觉得学习是愉快且有益的，因此保持着强烈的欲望去获取新的知识和技能，并有足够的勇气去迎接新的挑战。
8·The growth in telecommunications is giving more and more people access to the science that will help their country to develop or to acquire the medical knowledge that can fight disease.
电信的发展使越来越多的人获得了科学知识，这将有助于他们国家的发展，或是获得能够战胜疾病的医学知识。
9·He was the mastermind behind the plan to acquire the explosives.
他是获取炸药计划的幕后操纵者。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
10·She sat in the Spanish lab for hours, trying to acquire the accent of a native speaker.
她在西班牙语研究所里坐了好几个小时，试着学习以西班牙语为母语的人的口音。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》