Had he succeeded, he would have acquired a monopoly.

如果他那时成功了，他就会获得垄断地位。

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I had acquired a smattering of Greek.

我学会了一丁点儿希腊文。

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I've never acquired a taste for wine.

我从未养成对葡萄酒的爱好。

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The winning goal for Chelsea came in the 69th minute from newly-acquired Russian Yuri Zhirkov, who converted a rebound.

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We mean that his native language, not one that he's acquired subsequently, but the one that he learned as a child, was Greek, some version of the Greek language.

我们以他的母语为依据,即他们非后天习得的,而是从小所学的语言,即是希腊语的,或是一些希腊地区的方言的

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By the third glass, I had acquired a taste for the drink of the Aztec gods.

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Google has acquired a US company that generates power using turbines mounted on tethered kites or wings.

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David, 60, got his start in 1975 at Otis Elevator, which UTC acquired a year later.

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