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单词 amass
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amass
verb[T]
uk
/əˈmæs/us
/əˈmæs/
to get alargeamountof something,especiallymoneyorinformation, bycollectingit over alongperiod:
集聚，积累，大量收集（尤指钱或信息）
She has amassed ahugefortunefrom hernovels.她靠写小说慢慢积攒了一大笔钱。
Some of hiscolleaguesenvytheenormouswealththat he has amassed.他积聚了大笔财富，这引起了一些同事的忌妒。
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Collecting and amassing
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(Definition ofamassfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

amass| American Dictionary

amass
verb[T]
us
/əˈmæs/
togatheralargeamountof something,esp.money, bycollectingit over aperiodoftime:
By thetimehe was 40, he had amassed afortune.
(Definition ofamassfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

amass| Business English

amass
verb[T]
uk
/əˈmæs/us
to get alargeamountof something,especiallymoneyorinformation, bycollectingit over alongperiod:
He has amassed ahugefortunefrom hisinvention.
We have amassed alargeamountofinformation.
(Definition ofamassfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofamass

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When the head of the family had amassed sufficient resources, he would buy back his child.
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A scientific discipline consists not only of amassing facts and explaining them in theories.
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And as the forces amassed against him grew larger, his "rhetoric found an increasingly receptive audience" (p. 31).
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Eight million female volunteers amassed supplies for soldiers and sailors, surgical dressings and garments for refugees.
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The essays in this volume focus on specific boundaries andamassa wealth of detailed knowledge about them.
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To prevent individual people from amassing personal collections, we also formed a death metal organisation.
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He began by working with a variety of architects, engineers and iron and steel companies, amassing expertise in the new style of big building.
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The lesson is that amassing assets in a public pension plan attracts attention, and accumulated assets may be diverted to other purposes.
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Most of his large family of friends amassed somehow from his plays: performers, directors, affectionados like myself.
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Their representatives dominated the town's political institutions and many had amassed considerable wealth.
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Inclusion of texts like these would make a huge difference to the task of amassing large amounts of text.
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As a result, new data was amassed, and many inferences were drawn from the landscape evidence.
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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?
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She has succeeded, amassing great hordes of money, acquiring the finest luxuries and earning the envy of her peers.
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He goes on to claim, however, that at present it would be difficult toamassstakeholder agreement around this dominant paradigm.
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