attainとは

発音

• IPA^(key): /əˈteɪn/
• 韻: -eɪn

動詞

attain ‎(三人称単数 現在形 attains, 現在分詞 attaining, 過去形および過去分詞形 attained)

1. (transitive) To accomplish; to achieve.

   To attain such a high level of proficiency requires hours of practice each day.

2. To get at the knowledge of; to ascertain.
   • Fuller

     not well attaining his meaning

3. (transitive) To reach or come to, by progression or motion; to arrive at.
   • Milton

     Canaan he now attains.

4. (intransitive) To come or arrive, by motion, growth, bodily exertion, or efforts toward a place, object, state, etc.; to reach.
   • Bible, Psalms cxxxix. 6

     Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I can not attain unto it.

   • Bible, Acts xxvii. 12

     if by any means they might attain to Phenice

   • Sir Walter Scott

     Nor nearer might the dogs attain.

   • Cowper

     to see your trees attain to the dignity of timber

   • J. R. Green

     Few boroughs had as yet attained to power such as this.

5. To reach in excellence or degree; to equal.
6. (obsolete) To overtake.

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)

派生語

• attainable