How a living animal obtains its quantity of this fluid, called fire, is a curious question. 本杰明·富兰克林.富兰克林自传.
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. 柏拉图.理想国.
This particularly obtains in all Parliamentary affairs. 查尔斯·狄更斯.我们共同的朋友.
This condition obtains even where there is no slavery in the legal sense. 约翰·杜威.民主与教育.
If _A_ hits two balls instead of one, the energy possessed by _A_ is given in part to one ball, and in part to the other, so that neither obtains the full amount. 伯莎M.克拉克.科学通论.
He obtains a little measure of wine and gives the lad a portion of it very carefully. 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.
And yet, observing the strange law of contradiction which obtains in all such cases, the time was long, while it flamed by so fast. 查尔斯·狄更斯.双城记.
At the moment the inventor obtains the solution of his problem his mind may seem to be least engaged with it. 李贝.西洋科学史.