| Front | amass |
|---|---|
| Pron | [ə'mæs] |
| Back | 【amass】 v.积蓄 Through the years he amassed a large fortune to buy a farm after he retired. 他退休后，以多年积蓄的大笔财富买了一座农场。 |
| Vocab | amasscollect or gather
Amass means bring together or assemble. It can be a real shock to enter a room and see your amassed friends shouting "Surprise!" Although the word amass should not be confused with "a mass," as in the thing you never want to hear has been found on your lung, they both derive from the Latin massa "lump." When you think about it, this makes sense. Whether soldiers or cancer cells, things that come together to form a whole — in this case, a tumor or an army — are amassed. All forms of 'amass' will appear on average once every 1900 pages. amass |
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