| 单词 | acquire power |
| 释义 | acquire power Deliberately underwhelming on a first reading, the stories acquire power as resonances between them accrete. Times, Sunday Times As those who acquire power discover to their dismay, the controls are mushy and indirect, and the machine will run on, driverless, for some time. Times, Sunday Times The qualities and strengths that helped her to acquire power are precisely those things, once they became stagnant and corrupted, that brought about her downfall. Times, Sunday Times They were probably used at the feasts whereby chieftains acquired power by generosity: drinking with one's lord demonstrated loyalty. Times, Sunday Times His methods weren't about acquiring power for its own sake. Times, Sunday Times |
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