Collect与gather的区别

作为动词gather, collect都有搜集的意思，这么区别呢？

Gather是把散落的单独的东西或人物会聚在一同。

而collect有挨近，会合的涵义。

Gather的使用

To collect; normally separate things.搜集，寻常将事物分类。

I’ve been gathering ideas from the people I work with.

She bent down to gather the reluctant cat from beneath the chair.

Especially, to harvest food，专门用于劳绩食品。

We went to gather some blackberries from the nearby lane.

我们去四周的小路上采了一些黑莓。

To accumulate over time, to amass little by little. 渐渐积累，点滴累积。

Over the years he’d gathered a considerable collection of mugs.

这些年来，他搜集了多量的马克杯。

To congregate, or assemble.会萃

People gathered round as he began to tell his story.

当他开头讲他的故事时，人们围了过去。

As soon as a crowd gathered, the police came.

人群一会萃，警员就来了

To bring parts of a whole closer.将局部搜集成全体

She gathered the shawl about her as she stepped into the cold.

她走到严寒的场合，用围巾把本人裹起来。

To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.推出或做结论

From his silence, I gathered that things had not gone well.

从他的沉默中，我推断出事故变不太顺遂。

I gather from Aunty May that you had a good day at the match.

我从梅姑妈那边听说你在比赛中度过了愉快的一天。

I gather you have not done your homework

我料想你还没有做家庭作业。

look for (food) in nature 寻寻食品

Our ancestors gathered nuts in the fall

我们的先人在秋日收罗坚果

increase in (speed, force, etc.)增增速率

The destroyer gathered speed.

摈除舰增速了速率。

gain or recover (one’s breath)取得或规复

She paused to gather her breath and leaned against the wall puffing.

她停下去休憩，靠在墙上喘着气。

Collect的使用

To gather together; amass 搜集，会聚

Ancient nomads had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame.

古时的游牧民族必需搜集木料，然后花时间和精力将摩擦产生的热量从木料之间开释出来以扑灭火焰。

Suzanne collected all the papers she had laid out.

苏珊娜把她摆好的文件都收了起来。

The team uses special equipment to collect data on temperature, wind speed and rainfall.

该团队使用特别装备搜集温度、风速和降雨量的数据。

To get; particularly, get from someone 从或人那边取得

The riot is so great that it is very difficult to collect what is being said.

这场骚乱太严峻了，很难弄清晰人们在说些什么。

A bank collects a monthly payment on a client’s new car loan.

银行按月收取客户的新车存款。

A mortgage company collects a monthly payment on a house.

抵押存款公司按月收取衡宇存款。

We collected over a million dollars in outstanding debts.

我们收了一百多万美元的未偿债券。

bring or gather together (a number of things)搜集在一同

He went round the office collecting old coffee cups.

他在办公室里转悠，搜集旧咖啡杯。

To accumulate 作为兴致喜好搜集藏品

John Henry collects stamps.

约翰·亨利集邮。

I don’t think he collects as much as hoards.

我以为他搜集的东西不如囤积得多。

To collect payments.收款

He had a lot of trouble collecting on that bet he made.

他要收赌博赢的钱有很多困难。

He collected their rent each week.他每周收取他们的租金

To come together in a group or mass. （不及物动词）汇拢在一同

The rain collected in puddles.

雨水堆积在水坑里。

To collide with or crash into (another vehicle or obstacle).与另一个物体相撞

The truck veered across the central reservation and collected a car that was travelling in the opposite direction.

卡车转向穿过中央保存区，撞上了一辆朝相反朝向行驶的汽车。

accumulate over a period of time积累

Collect rainwater to use on the garden.

搜集雨水用于花圃’;

call for and take away; fetch接，带走

The children were collected from school.

孩子们从学校被接走了

concentrate (one’s thoughts)会合精力

She returned to her room to collect her thoughts.

她回到本人的房间，整理一下思绪。

从外表可看出Gather，collect都有会萃在一同，构成一组，一团或一个单位如此的涵义。

Gather是这些词中使用最广泛的; 它不仅可以用来指人和物，还可以指没形的东西。

在某些短语中，gather取得分外的特定涵义; 因此，gathering flowers or crops收罗花朵或作物意味着采摘、挑选和会萃; gathering wits“群策群力”指的是积极会合精力或会合精力力气.

Collect通常用来代替gather，在意思上没有刻意的区别。但是，collect可以转达仔细选择或选择准则的想法，或有序安插，或明白了解的头脑，但并不总是表达的目标的看法; 但gather没有这种意思。因此，collect蝴蝶意味着要对标本举行选择，通常还要对它们举行分类; collect books保藏册本意味着对册本的选择要依照一些准则，如有数性、装帧的雅观或特别的作者。

搜集头脑(to gather one’s thoughts)和会合头脑 (to collect one’s thoughts)之间有一个奇妙的区别，前者通常只意味着之前的疏散，后者则意味着将头脑构造起来。

集资(gather money)和筹资资(collect money)也有区别，前者约莫仅仅指积累资金，尔后者通常指经过礼品、捐款和捐款来筹集资金，或接纳举动取得应得的资金。当种种千般的东西放在一同的时分，我们用Collect和collection更倾向于表达会合; 因此，一种杂项的聚集而不是一种集实用collect; 搜集充足的椅子让一切的宾客坐下就要用collect.。