【gather音标】 英[ˈgæðə(r)] 美[ˈgæðɚ]
【单词释义】 gather是什么意思：
vt.收集；聚集，搜集；收紧，收缩；采集
vi.逐渐增加，积聚
n.聚集；衣褶
[单词分级] 高考英语词汇
[单词复数] gathers [第三人称单数] gathers
[单词现在分词] gathering
[单词过去式] gathered
[单词过去分词] gathered
【gather形近词/近似词】
bather n.洗澡者；游泳者
blather n. 废话；胡说 v. 喋喋不休；絮絮叨叨；啰嗦地说
father n.父亲
rather adv. 相当地；相反地
【近义词解析】
◇ 聚集，集合
assemble ([四级]v. 集合，聚集，收集)：常指为某种目的聚集在一起。
A large crowd assembled in front of the office building
collect (v. [正式]聚集，汇集)：指人在某一处集中或逐渐地聚集成群。
convene ([专八/GRE]v. 聚集，集合；召集)：指聚集起来或召集有关人员举行正式会议。
gather (v. 聚集，集合)：普通用词，可指人和物，侧重于围绕某个中心而聚集。
【单词例句】
◇ Little Red Cap had run after the flowers. After she had gathered so many that she could not carry any more, she remembered her grandmother, and then continued on her way to her house.
可这时小红帽还在跑来跑去地採花。直到採了许多许多，她都拿不了啦，她才想起奶奶，重新上路去奶奶家。
---- Little Red Cap
◇ They gathered wood for cooking, herbs for the stew, and put the pot onto the fire so a meal was always ready when the eleven came home.
小姑娘出去捡柴火，採来花草当蔬菜，把锅子放在火塘上，总是在十一个哥哥回来之前把饭菜做好。
---- The Twelve Brothers
◇ On the festival, people gather in open air, such as playgrounds or parking lots, and energetically have fun with each other all night long, as though they were never tired.
在节日那天，人们聚集在露天场所，例如操场或停车场，通宵达旦地玩得非常开心，精力充沛的人们似乎不知疲倦。
◇ The word is of Germanic stock and meant "picking," "plucking," or "reaping," a nod to the act of gathering and preserving crops before winter.
该词源于日耳曼语，意思是“采摘”或“收割”，指的是在冬天之前收集和储藏粮食。
---- The reason why Americans refer to Autumn as fall?
◇ How brave we knew she was?we three sisters gathered around her hospital bed feeling time pushing us toward her fate the next day. We were quick to smile,slow to leave,hoping our "Good nights" were not our good-byes.
我们深知母亲是何等的勇敢。姐妹三人围着母亲的病床，感受着母亲明天的命运在分分秒秒逼近。我们面带微笑，不愿离去，祈求我们的晚安道别不会成为诀别。
---- To Love Enough
◇ One day he had gone into the forest to gather wood, where he was approached by an old man, whom he had never seen before, and who said, "Why do you torment yourself with chopping wood? I will make you rich if you will promise me that which is standing behind your mill."
有一天，他到森林里去砍柴，一个他从没见过的老头走近前来对他说：“你何苦这么辛苦地砍柴呀？只要你答应把你磨房后的东西给我，我就让你过富人的日子。”