obtain information

基本解释

The secret police tortured him to obtain information.
秘密警察拷问他以获取情报。
From communications to entertainment, Apple products have profoundly changed the way people around the world obtain information and use technology.
从通讯到娱乐，苹果公司的产品大大改变了全世界人们获取信息和使用技术的方式。
UNAMA said the torture aimed to obtain information and confessions, which it said are often the sole form of evidence submitted in Afghan criminal trials.
联阿援助团说，酷刑的目的是为了获取信息和口供，它说往往是在阿富汗的刑事审判中提交证据的唯一形式。

Judge Melvin Wright explains how the D.C.Superior Court handles this issue: "We instruct jurors that they cannot during the course of a trial use Google or Twitter or any other electronic device to obtain information.
Authorities said an FBI agent, posing as a Cuban intelligence officer, contacted the Myers in April and asked them to obtain information for Havana.
The Bush administration strenuously defended so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques" like sleep deprivation to obtain information from detainees, and admitted to harsher treatment, like the simulated drowning technique called water boarding, that was used in the immediate aftermath of the September 11 terror attacks.

The Department of Labor could obtain information they might need for enforcement in other ways.
FORBES: Department of Labor Threatens Personal and Commercial Privacy