Gather
['gæðə] or ['ɡæðɚ]
解释:
(noun.) the act of gathering something.
(noun.) sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching.
(verb.) conclude from evidence; 'I gather you have not done your homework'.
(verb.) look for (food) in nature; 'Our ancestors gathered nuts in the Fall'.
(verb.) draw together into folds or puckers.
(verb.) draw and bring closer; 'she gathered her shawl around her shoulders'.
(verb.) assemble or get together; 'gather some stones'; 'pull your thoughts together'.
哈罗德手打--From WordNet
解释:
(v. t.) To bring together; to collect, as a number of separate things, into one place, or into one aggregate body; to assemble; to muster; to congregate.
(v. t.) To pick out and bring together from among what is of less value; to collect, as a harvest; to harvest; to cull; to pick off; to pluck.
(v. t.) To accumulate by collecting and saving little by little; to amass; to gain; to heap up.
(v. t.) To bring closely together the parts or particles of; to contract; to compress; to bring together in folds or plaits, as a garment; also, to draw together, as a piece of cloth by a thread; to pucker; to plait; as, to gather a ruffle.
(v. t.) To derive, or deduce, as an inference; to collect, as a conclusion, from circumstances that suggest, or arguments that prove; to infer; to conclude.
(v. t.) To gain; to win.
(v. t.) To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue, or the like.
(v. t.) To haul in; to take up; as, to gather the slack of a rope.
(v. i.) To come together; to collect; to unite; to become assembled; to congregate.
(v. i.) To grow larger by accretion; to increase.
(v. i.) To concentrate; to come to a head, as a sore, and generate pus; as, a boil has gathered.
(v. i.) To collect or bring things together.
(n.) A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
(n.) The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
(n.) The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See Gather, v. t., 7.
手打:威利
同义词及近义词:
v. a. [1]. Collect, muster, assemble, congregate, bring together, draw together.[2]. Accumulate, amass, hoard, heap up, gather up.[3]. Pluck, crop, pick, cull, reap, glean.[4]. Infer, deduce, conclude.[5]. Plait, pucker.
v. n. [1]. Muster, congregate, come together.[2]. Collect, increase, thicken, be condensed.
编辑:露西尔
同义词及反义词:
[See COLLECT]
丹尼尔编辑
解释:
v.t. to collect: to acquire: in sewing to plait: to learn by inference.—v.i. to assemble or muster: to increase: to suppurate.—n. a plait or fold in cloth made by drawing the thread through (pl. that part of the dress which is gathered or drawn in).—ns. Gath′erer one who collects: a gleaner: in glass manufacturing a workman who collects molten glass on the end of a rod preparatory to blowing; Gath′ering a crowd or assembly: a tumour or collection of matter; Gath′ering-coal -peat a coal peat put into a fire at night with the hot embers gathered about it to keep the fire alive till morning; Gath′ering-cry a summons to assemble for war.—Gather breath to recover wind; Gather ground to gain ground; Gather one's self together to collect all one's powers like one about to leap; Gather to a head to ripen: to come into a state of preparation for action or effect; Gather way to get headway by sail or steam so as to answer the helm.
录入:玛莎
例句:
- They exactly correspond, so I gather that the lady went back to the same establishment for the second. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- From the one we gather unquiet speculation, from the other satiety. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- Why did all those gentlemen gather round you? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- You, my creator, abhor me; what hope can I gather from your fellow-creatures, who owe me nothing? 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- Come then with me, until I gather more aid. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- It's going on, and I shall gather it up closer and closer as it goes on. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those simple cases which are so extremely difficult. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- I think that we have gathered all that we can. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- Bean for a sewing machine in which the needle was stationary, and the cloth was gathered in crimps or folds and forced over the stationary needle. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- Repentance, replied the man, whose sinister brow gathered clouds as he spoke. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- The influence of the fresh air, and the attraction of some flowers gathered from a grave, soon quieted the child. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- As its eyes met Clayton's it stopped, and deliberately, cautiously gathered its hind quarters behind it. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Devils gathered their legions in his sight; their dim, discrowned, and tarnished armies passed rank and file before him. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Here there were no white men, no soldiers, nor any rubber or ivory to be gathered for cruel and thankless taskmasters. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Three yellow squares of light shone above us in the gathering gloom. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- He made sundials, water clocks, and similar apparatus, a little last gleam of experimental science in the gathering ignorance. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- I tried vainly, in the gathering darkness, to see his face. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- He forced back the gathering shadows of death, as he forced his clenched right hand to remain clenched, and to cover his wound. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- They were gathering a heart again, they were coming once more into being. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- This IS a gathering of the clans. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Gathering me to his breast, pressing his lips on my lips: so, Jane! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- The boy gathers up his change and has pulled the door open by a leather strap nailed to it for the purpose, when Venus cries out: 'Stop him! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Mrs. Bagnet gathers up her cloak to wipe her eyes on in a very genuine manner, How could you do it? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- One gathers that Pericles was superior in his demeanour; he betrayed at times a contempt for the citizens he served. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- And I may get it as sweet and fresh as the wild honey the bee gathers on the moor. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- But this proceeds only from the relation to ourselves; which in these cases gathers force by being confined to a few persons. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- He's been hung on to, pretty tight, for his shirt's all tore out of the neck-gathers. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- He no more gathers grapes from thorns or figs from thistles than older men did in old times. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
录入:丽贝卡