Picture getting something that did not simply fall into your hands — a permit, a degree, a signature, the evidence. There were steps: you applied, you asked the right office, you worked for it. Obtain is the formal word that keeps those steps visible, which is why it lives in documents and reports rather than in conversation.
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原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
obtainverb/əbˈteɪn/
- 1
To get hold of; to gain possession of, to procure; to acquire, in any way.
- obtain permission
- obtain information
- 2
obsoleteTo secure (that) a specific objective or state of affairs be reached.
- he was condemned to die for the felony, and being so well known for an old offender, had certainly died, but the merchant, upon his earnest application, had obtained that he should be transported, on condition that he restored all the rest of his bills, which he had done accordingly.
- 3
obsoleteTo prevail, be victorious; to succeed.
- “O daughter deare!” (said she) “despeire no whit; / For never sore but might a salve obtain [...].”
- This, though it failed at present, yet afterward obtained, and was a mighty step to the ruin of the commonwealth.
- 4
obsoleteTo hold; to keep, possess or occupy.
- His mother then is mortal, but his Sire / He who obtains the monarchy of Heav'n, / And what will he not do to advance his Son?
- 5
human-sciencesphilosophysciencesTo exist or be the case; to hold true, be in force.
- Even though the Pervaise confession had never come to light, no reasonable doubt could obtain; for the act in question […] was on a par with countless other acts committed by the oligarchs, and, before them, by the capitalists.
- In connection with the various courses of practical instruction, the companies maintain signalling schools fitted with standard railway equipment in which the staff can be given instructions under conditions exactly similar to those which obtain in signal boxes.
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