• vt. 取得；獲得；實現(xiàn)；成功
• vi. 達(dá)到預(yù)期的目的，實現(xiàn)預(yù)期的結(jié)果，如愿以償

前綴a-同ad-, 去，往。-chieve同chief, 頭，來自詞根cap, 頭，見captain,隊長。指到頭，達(dá)到。

achieve

achieve: [14] Achieve is related to chief. It comes from Old French achever ‘bring to an end’, or literally ‘bring to a head’, which was based on the phrase a chief ‘to a head’ (chief derives ultimately from Latin caput ‘head’). The heraldic meaning of achievement, ‘coat of arms’, comes from the notion that the escutcheon was granted as a reward for a particular achievement. Over the centuries it has evolved an alternative form, hatchment [16].
=> chief, hatchment

achieve (v.)

early 14c., from Old French achever (12c.) "to finish, accomplish, complete," from phrase à chef (venir) "at an end, finished," or Vulgar Latin *accapare, from Late Latin ad caput (venire); both the French and Late Latin phrases meaning literally "to come to a head," from stem of Latin caput "head" (see capitulum).

The Lat. caput, towards the end of the Empire, and in Merov[ingian] times, took the sense of an end, whence the phrase ad caput venire, in the sense of to come to an end .... Venire ad caput naturally produced the Fr. phrase venir à chef = venir à bout. ... From this chief, O.Fr. form of chef (q.v.) in sense of term, end, comes the Fr. compd. achever = venir à chef, to end, finish. [Auguste Brachet, "An Etymological Dictionary of the French Language," transl. G.W. Kitchin, Oxford, 1878]

Related: Achieved; achieving.

1. I asked McKeown if the reunion was meant to achieve closure.

我問麥基翁重聚是不是為了尋求解脫。

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2. Car firms are desperate to achieve economies of scale.

汽車廠商拼命想要實現(xiàn)規(guī)模經(jīng)濟。

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3. There are many who will work hard to achieve these goals.

有志之士將會共同為實現(xiàn)這些目標(biāo)而努力。

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4. It had been an uphill struggle to achieve what she had wanted.

她歷盡坎坷才達(dá)到目的。

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5. Women have yet to achieve wage or occupational parity in many fields.

女性在很多領(lǐng)域還沒能爭取到薪金、職位方面的平等。

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