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词汇 amass
释义 amass
verb[ T ]
uk /əˈmæs/ us /əˈmæs/
to get a large amount of something, especially money or information, by collecting it over a long period: 集聚,积累,大量收集(尤指钱或信息)
She has amassed a huge fortune from her novels.她靠写小说慢慢积攒了一大笔钱。
Some of his colleagues envy the enormous wealth that he has amassed.他积聚了大笔财富,这引起了一些同事的忌妒。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Collecting and amassing
accumulate
agglomerate
aggregation
assemble
bunch
completist
compost
concentrate
concentration
cumulate
fundraise
fundraising
garner
harvest
rake something up
reassemble
reconcentrate
reconcentration
regather
the assembled company

amass | American Dictionary


amass
verb[ T ]
us/əˈmæs/
to gather a large amount of something, esp. money, by collecting it over a period of time:
By the time he was 40, he had amassed a fortune.

amass | Business English


amass
verb[ T ]
uk /əˈmæs/us
to get a large amount of something, especially money or information, by collecting it over a long period:
He has amassed a huge fortune from his invention.
We have amassed a large amount of information.

Examples of amass


amass
A scientific discipline consists not only of amassing facts and explaining them in theories.
And as the forces amassed against him grew larger, his "rhetoric found an increasingly receptive audience" (p. 31).
Eight million female volunteers amassed supplies for soldiers and sailors, surgical dressings and garments for refugees.
The essays in this volume focus on specific boundaries and amass a wealth of detailed knowledge about them.
To prevent individual people from amassing personal collections, we also formed a death metal organisation.
He began by working with a variety of architects, engineers and iron and steel companies, amassing expertise in the new style of big building.
The lesson is that amassing assets in a public pension plan attracts attention, and accumulated assets may be diverted to other purposes.
Most of his large family of friends amassed somehow from his plays: performers, directors, affectionados like myself.
Their representatives dominated the town's political institutions and many had amassed considerable wealth.
Inclusion of texts like these would make a huge difference to the task of amassing large amounts of text.
As a result, new data was amassed, and many inferences were drawn from the landscape evidence.
Can one become an intellectual without trading on a capital amassed elsewhere, but simply by means of work done on the premises, as it were?
She has succeeded, amassing great hordes of money, acquiring the finest luxuries and earning the envy of her peers.
He goes on to claim, however, that at present it would be difficult to amass stakeholder agreement around this dominant paradigm.
The aim of individuals in this economy was to amass as much credit as possible (in the form of citations and other acknowledgments of indebtedness).
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