Questions about example sentences with, and the definition and usage of "Achieve"

It means reach or attain. "I achieved my highest score." "I wonder if I will achieve my dream."

For example: "I want to achieve a balance between my work life and my home life." "When trying to lose weight, It's important to achieve a balance between a good diet and exercise." "When you're dating someone new, it can be difficult to achieve a balance between not being too clingy while also showing your interest in the person."

He did not expect to be fully right to the core, like he's aware of the fact that it could be a bit wrong I guess?

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I don't think there's any meaningful difference between obtain and acquire, or obtainable and acquirable. They are used mostly interchangeably. To me, obtain hints that you go out of your way to get something, and acquire is more often used in business transactions than obtain, such as "Company A acquired Company B". However, there's a usage of "acquired taste" meaning it's something you grow accustomed to and develop a taste for. For example we can say coffee is an acquired taste, because not everyone likes it, and when trying it for the first time most people only find it bitter, but then people can grow to like it and develop a taste for it. For this, you cannot say it's an "obtained taste" to mean the same thing.

@Nans: 一つ目は夢とか成績とか。後の三つは目標の達成。 I need fulfill my grade requirements to take the course in this series. How do you plan on accomplishing your goals?

"to get" means to go and aquire it "to achieve" means you earned it "to retrieve" means you are getting back a thing that went away (like a dog retrieving a stick) "to earn" means to do what is necessary to get it

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I like it, this is great. 1. Pay attention to always having a space after punctuation, such as a comma or a period. 2. You should split up the main paragraph, since it changes topic about halfway through. 3. Chinese Dream becomes a name, so should always have both words capitalized, and "the" in front. Just like the American Dream. It may be easier to do larger edits like this on Lang-8, but I'll take a crack anyway:) I'd write it this way, with my comments in [brackets]: On March 17th, 2013, Chairman Xi put forward the concept of the "Chinese Dream". The Chinese Dream is the greatest dream of the Chinese citizens, the bond of a harmonious society and the power of our country's development. [QUESTION: do you mean that these three things, together, make up the Chinese Dream? This is the only part I find hard to understand.] The Chinese Dream is devoted to increasing the domestic happiness index [QUESTION: is there actually a domestic happiness index? Bhutan is famous for having one...], and strengthening the power and wealth of China. How can we achieve the Chinese Dream? As the old saying goes, "Many hands make light work." In order to achieve our goals, we all need to do our part. Only with everyone's effort can we make the Chinese Dream a reality, so that it becomes the national characteristic of China. All in all, apart from being a collective dream of our nation, the Chinese Dream is also a dream of every Chinese citizen. As a high school student, I'm inspired to be one of the contributors to the Chinese Dream.

instead of toilet, say bathroom

Try 'I started to study being more money savvy' 'In China, they are used to using investment to boost economic growth. What do you think about this?' Other than that, perfect English. It reads like a native speaker!

I guess I drew the short straw. Just my luck.

The first "t" here is relating to a golf tee as shown in the response after it.

Lots of questions in there! 1. I've not seen "buzz of conversation" used like this. It could be correct or not, it's not a common phrase so I could just not have heard it. In the sense you have written "buzz" would probably mean high or "happy feeling". I've heard it used more to describe the sound that you get when lots of people are having conversations (for example, at a party) and they all sound like one thing but you can't make out any words. e.g. "The buzz of conversation at the party made Sonia's headache worse". 2. Correct. "Sometimes a slight criticism is necessary to help us understand our mistakes" would sound a bit nicer. 3. The closest to what you wrote would be "Some people only value the value of money, to the extent that they forget what is really important in their life". When people talk about "value of money" it is normally to do with how much it will buy them or somebody misunderstanding the amount of work it takes to earn the money. e.g. "John's 4 year old child had no idea of the value of money, he just wanted toys, toys, and more toys.". 4. Correct. Also something like: "Everything in the shop was overpriced, so they just left". 5. "The ending of the film was so disappointing that the magnificent cast weren't able to make me feel like I hadn't wasted my time". 6. "If we don't sample it, we'll never know". 7. Correct 8. You can't really have a "most proper" way. Something is either proper or it is not. The closest to what you wrote would be: "The proper way to achieve your goals is to never give up". Using "proper" instead of "best" here suggests there is only the one way though and that all other ways are incorrect. Maybe a better example: "Dan had a new job. He'd never been a proper waiter, so now he had to learn how to properly set the table." (the first "proper" in the sense of the word that means "real" and the second, properly, in the sense that there is one accepted way to do it). 9. Correct. 10. "The annoying murmur made it hard for me to fall asleep". 11. Yes, they should :) "definitely be" rather than "be definitely" Through the buzz of conversation, I gathered that there was slight criticism of the prime minister's plans to raise taxes. People said it was particularly disappointing, and astonishing, that he didn't understand the value of money and that the goods in the shops were already overpriced. One man murmured that it would be only proper for the prime minister to sample a moment in the average man's shoes. ;-)

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