| 英语单词 | amass |
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| 英美音标 | 英 [ə'mæs] 美 [ə'mæs] |
| 中文释义 | v.积聚；收集 |
| 英语例句 | (1) A speculator may try to amass great wealth. (2) Mr. Smith's business was very successful, and he was able to amass a fortune. (3) So, as you begin to amass this knowledge and these abilities, there will be others attracted to you for their own reasons because of what they can access through you. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 投机商会想方设法积聚钱财。 (2) 史密斯先生的事业极为成功，所以他积聚了一大笔财富。 (3) 所以，如同你们开始收集这知识和这些能力，将会有吸引他们自己的动机，因为他们能够通过你们访问。 |
| vocabulary简明 | Amass means bring together or assemble. It can be a real shock to enter a room and see your amassed friends shouting "Surprise!" |
| vocabulary扩展 | 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. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [VERB 动词]积聚；收集 If you amass something such as money or information, you gradually get a lot of it. [V n]
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