amass

英 [ə'mæs] 美 [ə'mæs]

• v. 积聚；收集

双解释义

v. (动词)

1. vt. 积累,积聚

   collect sth, especially in large quantities

详尽释义

v. 动词

1. 积聚
2. 积累
3. 堆积
4. 收集
5. 集合
6. 攒
7. 聚敛
8. 搜集
9. 聚集
10. 积蓄

英英释义

Verb:

1. collect or gather;

   "Journals are accumulating in my office"
   "The work keeps piling up"
   

2. get or gather together;

   "I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife"
   "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis"
   "She rolled up a small fortune"
   

例句

用作动词 (v.)

1. A speculator may try to amass great wealth.
   投机商会想方设法积聚钱财。
2. Mr. Smith's business was very successful, and he was able to amass a fortune.
   史密斯先生的事业极为成功，所以他积聚了一大笔财富。
3. She continues to amass a staggering amount of material on the history and technology relating to current-day mind control and other forms of abuse.
   她继续收集在历史和技术上涉及到当今的精神控制和其他的孽待形式的令人惊愕的材料。
4. 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.
   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。

常见句型

用作动词 (v.)

用作及物动词

S+～+ n./pron.

1. It was estimated that the state had amassed 100 to 200 atomic warheads.
   据估计,这个国家已积累了100至200个原子弹头。
2. The campers amassed a large pile of branches before starting their fire.
   野营的人们在架起篝火之前搜集了一大堆碎枝。
3. He has amassed a profound knowledge of eight languages by industry.
   他靠勤奋而精通八种语言。
4. The capitalists amass great wealth by exploiting workers.
   资本家剥削工人而积累了巨额财富。
5. He amassed a fortune by speculating on the stock exchange.
   他靠证券交易投机聚敛了一大笔钱财。
6. He amassed money for his children.
   他为儿女攒钱。
7. During the past two years alone, he amassed a staggering $ 1.5 billion in profits for himself.
   单单在过去的两年里,他就为自己聚集到达15亿之巨的利润。
8. He amassed his papers for his memoirs.
   他把文件汇集起来,准备写回忆录。
9. He amassed a fortune from silver mining.
   他靠开采银矿积累了一笔财富。
10. She has amassed a huge fortune from her novels.
    她通过她的小说已经积聚了一大笔财富。
11. He amassed evidence to support his case.
    他收集证据以支持自己的讼案。

经典引文

• The son of a small landowner whose family had first amassed, and then lost, considerable wealth.

  出自： C. V. Wedgwood

• A detective must find it as important as a novelist to amass his trivial material before picking out the right clue.

  出自： G. Greene

词汇搭配

用作动词 (v.)

～+名词

• amass a large collection of rejection slips 收到一大堆退稿便条
• amass data 积累资料
• amass evidence 收集证据
• amass information 收集情报
• amass political power 积聚政治权力
• amass quite a little fortune 积攒一大笔财产
• amass savings 积蓄存款

～+副词

• amass patiently 耐心积累
• amass quickly 很快积累
• amass rapidly 迅速积累
• amass slowly 慢慢积累

词语用法

v. (动词)

1. amass的基本意思是“积累,积聚”,指聚集起来以形成某种积累或构成较大数量。通常用于贵重物品和钱财的积累,数量一般较大。

词义辨析

v. (动词)

amass, accumulate, heap, pile

• 这四个词都有“堆积”或“积累”的意思,表示“积累财富”的意思时, heap up和amass可互换。其区别是：
• 1.从堆积的高度来看, heap要比pile高。
• 2.从积累的速度和数量上看, amass比accumulate更迅速、更多。
• 3.从使用范围来看, accumulate比其他三词要广,既可用于具体意义,也可用于抽象意义,可以说“积水,积血”,也可以说“积累财富、利息、知识、悲哀、困难、恩德、罪恶、弊病等”; heap也可用于具体意义和抽象意义; amass主要用于抽象意义,如“积聚金钱、资源、知识等”; pile主要用于具体意义,常用于堆积同类的东西,尤其是扁平的东西。

accumulate，amass，collect，gather，heap，pile

• 这些动词均含“积聚，聚集，积累”之意。
• accumulate几乎可用于指任何事物量的增加，侧重连续不断地，一点一滴地聚积。
• amass着重大量地积聚，尤指对如金钱、珠宝等有价值东西的大量积聚。
• collect普通用词，多用于指物，侧重指有区别地作选择或有安排有计划地把零散物集中起来。
• gather普通用词，指人或物或抽象事物都可用。侧重于围绕一个中心的集合、聚集。
• heap主要指把沙、石、煤、草等堆高，不强调整齐。
• pile着重指比较整齐地把东西堆积在一起。

近反义词

【近义词】

• accumulate
• collect
• gather
• heap
• pile

派生词

v.(动词)

• amasser n. 收集者