[ADJ 形容词]集体的；共同的Collective actions, situations, or feelings involve or are shared by every member of a group of people.
[ADJ n]
It was a collective decision...
这是集体的决定。
The country's politicians are already heaving a collective sigh of relief.
该国的政界人士均已松了口气。
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They collectively decided to recognize the changed situation...
他们集体决定承认形势已经发生改变。
The Cabinet is collectively responsible for policy.
内阁集体对政策负责。
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[ADJ 形容词]总的；集合的 A collective amount of something is the total obtained by adding together the amounts that each person or thing in a group has.
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Their collective volume wasn't very large.
他们的总量不是太大。
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In 1968 the states collectively spent $2 billion on it.
1968年，各州在这上面总共花费了20亿美元。
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[ADJ 形容词]集合的；总括的 The collective term for two or more types of thing is a general word or expression which refers to all of them.
[ADJ n]
Social science is a collective name, covering a series of individual sciences.
社会科学是一个统称，涵盖一系列的独立学科。
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...other sorts of cells (known collectively as white corpuscles).
其他类型的细胞(统称为白细胞)
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[N-COUNT 可数名词]集体企业；合作农场 A collective is a business or farm which is run, and often owned, by a group of people who take an equal share of any profits.
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He will see that he is participating in all the decisions of the collective.
他会确保自己参与集体企业的各项决策。
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col·lect·ive/kəˈlektɪv; NAmEkəˈlektɪv/
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collectivecollectivesadjective[usually before noun ]1done or shared by all members of a group of people; involving a whole group or society 集体的；共有的；共同的◆collective leadership/decision-making/responsibility集体领导╱决策；共同责任◆collective memory (= things that a group of people or a community know or remember, that are often passed from parents to children)集体记忆2used to refer to all members of a group 全体成员的；总体的◆The collective name for mast, boom and sails on a boat is the ‘rig’.船的桅杆、帆桁和帆总称为“索具”。▶col·lect·ive·ly/kəˈlektɪvli; NAmEkəˈlektɪvli/adverb◆the collectively agreed rate共同商定的费率◆We have had a successful year, both collectively and individually.我们这一年干得不错，无论是整体还是个人都取得了成功。◆rain, snow and hail, collectively known as ‘precipitation’ (= as a group)总称为“降水”的雨、雪和冰雹nouna group of people who own a business or a farm and run it together; the business that they run 企业集团；合作农场；集体企业◆an independent collective making films for television为电视制作影片的独立集体企业col·lect·ive/kəˈlektɪv; NAmEkəˈlektɪv/col·lect·ive·ly/kəˈlektɪvli; NAmEkəˈlektɪvli/
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collectivecol‧lec‧tive1 /kəˈlektɪv/ ●○○ adjective [only before noun]
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shared or made by every member of a group or society: a collective decision made by all board members our collective responsibility for the environment
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collectivecollective2 noun [countable]
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1a group of people who work together to run something such as a business or farm, and who share the profits equally2the business or farm that is run by this type of group
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