collect
名词 n.
动词 v.
形容词 adj.
副词 adv.
英 /ˈkɒlɪkt/|/ˈkɒlɛkt/
美 /ˈkɑlɪkt/|/ˈkɑlɛkt/
英文释义
名词 n.
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The prayer said before the reading of the epistle lesson, especially one found in a prayerbook, as with the Book of Common Prayer.
— He used the day's collect as the basis of his sermon.
动词 v.
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To gather together; amass.
— Suzanne collected all the papers she had laid out.
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To get; particularly, get from someone.
— A bank collects a monthly payment on a client's new car loan. A mortgage company collects a monthly payment on a house.
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To accumulate (a number of similar or related objects), particularly for a hobby or recreation.
— John Henry collects stamps.
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To pick up or fetch
— Can you collect me from the airport?
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To form a conclusion; to deduce, infer. (Compare gather, get.)
— […] which consequence, I conceive, is very ill collected.
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To collect payments.
— He had a lot of trouble collecting on that bet he made.
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To come together in a group or mass.
— The rain collected in puddles.
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To infer; to conclude.
— Whence some collect that the former word imports a plurality of persons.
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To collide with or crash into (another vehicle or obstacle).
— The truck veered across the central reservation and collected a car that was travelling in the opposite direction.
形容词 adj.
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To be paid for by the recipient, as a telephone call or a shipment.
— It was to be a collect delivery, but no-one was available to pay.
副词 adv.
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With payment due from the recipient.
— I had to call collect.
词形变化
词源
词源 1
From Middle English collecten, a borrowing from Old French collecter, from Medieval Latin collectare (“to collect money”), from Latin collecta (“a collection of money, in Late Latin a meeting, assemblage, in Medieval Latin a tax, also an assembly for prayer, a prayer”), feminine of collectus, past participle of colligere, conligere (“to gather together, collect, consider, conclude, infer”), from com- (“together”) + legere (“to gather”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to gather, collect”).
词源 2
From Middle English collecte, from Ecclesiastical Latin collēcta (“assembly; collect”), originally designating the gathering at the beginning of a liturgical celebration.
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