procure
vt. 取得,获得; 实现,完成; 导致
vi. 取得; 介绍娼妓,拉皮条
If you procure something, especially something that is difficult to get, you obtain it.
It remained very difficult to procure food, fuel and other daily necessities.
食物、燃料和其他日用必需品仍然很难得到。
If someone procures a prostitute, they introduce the prostitute to a client.
He procured girls of 16 and 17 to be mistresses for his influential friends.
他介绍了些十六七岁的女孩给他那些有权势的朋友当情人。
1. get by special effort;
2. arrange for sexual partners for others
Try to procure us some specimens of the polluted water from the river.
请设法给我们从河里搞一些被污染了的河水标本来.
To raise esteem we must benefit others, to procure love we must please them.
要提升尊敬,我们必须使人觉得受益;要获得热爱,我们必须使人感到愉快.
I cannot procure employment.
我不能求得职业.
Please procure me some specimens.
请设法为我搞到一些标本.
In my own city my name, in a strange city my clothes procure me respect.
居家重名誉;出门重衣衫.