Attain
[ə'teɪn] or [ə'ten]
解釋/意思:
(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
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. [1]. Procure (by effort), acquire, get, obtain, gain, win, secure, achieve, compass, accomplish, effect, hit.[2]. Reach, arrive at, come to, attain to.
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同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Reach, extend, master, arrive_at, compass, earn, win, achieve, accomplish, get,obtain, acquire, gain, secure, grasp
ANT:Lose, fail, forfeit, miss, abandon, resign
达拉整理
解釋/意思:
v.t. to reach or gain by effort: to obtain: to reach a place: to reach.—v.i. to come or arrive: to reach.—adj. Attain′able that may be reached.—ns. Attain′ableness Attainabil′ity; Attain′ment act of attaining: the thing attained: acquisition: (pl.) acquirements in learning.
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例句/造句/用法:
- This increase of evaporative power increased the speed the engine could attain. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- With Plato the investigation of nature is another department of knowledge, and in this he seeks to attain only probable conclusions (Timaeus). 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- AFTER these events, it was long before we were able to attain any degree of composure. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- 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. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Few are they who are able to attain to the sight of this. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- 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. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- 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. 神奇的知識之書.
- 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·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- 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·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- 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. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- The Wrights’ system of balance, the great original feature of their invention, is attained by what is called the warping of the wings. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- How else are these marvels of symmetry, cleanliness, and order attained? 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Tom had sat upon the bed, swinging one leg and sucking his walking-stick with sufficient unconcern, until the visit had attained this stage. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Three other engines competed with the Rocket, two of which had attained great speed on previous trials. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- 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. 簡·愛.
- For he was gradually attaining his object in life, and that, to Lily, was always less despicable than to miss it. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- 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. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- 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·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- 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. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- 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. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Instead of operating on their own account they are reduced to mere servants of attaining pleasure and avoiding pain. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- It is the soil in which invention flourishes and the organized knowledge of science attains its greatest reality. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- And do you also agree, I said, in describing the dialectician as one who attains a conception of the essence of each thing? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
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