1. Moreover, as soon as new knowledge is acquired, it is now turned to practical account.
    而且，新知识一旦获得，便得到实际应用。

2. Mr. Abdy, a 27-year-old businessman, acquired the bulk of the properties for about half a million pounds, obtaining bank loans and striking deals with various people to pay only a part of what they are owed by Mr. Williams.
    27岁的商人阿布迪先生，通过获取银行贷款和与各种人做交易，只支付威廉斯先生所欠他们的一部分，最后以大约50万英镑的价格，买下了绝大部分房产。

3. Ironically, Europe, which had bequeathed the rabbit as a pest to Australia, acquired this man-made disease as a pestilence.
    具有讽刺意味的是，欧洲把这种兔子作为有害动物传给澳洲，而欧洲自己却染上了这种人为的瘟疫般的疾病。