Definition of gather in English:

gather

verb ˈɡaðəˈɡæðər

1no object Come together; assemble or accumulate.
集合；聚集，累积
as soon as a crowd gathered, the police came
一群人刚一聚拢，警察就来了。
Example sentencesExamples
- Mike looked around at the assemblage gathered around him.
- The sporting entertainment kicked off early in the day as crowds gathered around large TV screens to watch the World Cup final.
- Large crowds have gathered around him, and he begins to teach them.
- A crowd gathered around one of the burned-out cars.
- A crowd had gathered around one of the cottages in the town square.
- Crowds also gathered around a television where footage of the annual school drills from the 1960s was being shown.
- And again, she told herself that as she entered the party and viewed the crowd of fans gathered around him.
- The grocery shop was next door to the sweet shop and when I got there I saw a crowd of children gathered around a television camera and some photographers.
- It seems that a crowd of them had gathered around the quarrelling demonstrators, while the British cops attempted to keep the two sides apart.
- He said that when he arrived on the scene at 2.46 pm a crowd of youths had gathered around the southern edge of the lagoon, off Northfield Lane.
- And judging from the crowds gathered around the trophy and the queues looping around the Brunel Plaza, the tour looks to be on target for success.
- Philip's statement brought a ripple of laughter from the crowd of assembled contestants gathered around the archery range.
- A lot of young girls had experienced terrible intimidation by the crowds gathered around the shop in the past.
- Nearby, anxious crowds gathered around lists of injured posted on the walls of the hospital buildings.
- Many in a strong crowd, who had gathered around the screens, were heard to remark it was all about politics rather than singing and the song.
- I still remember a lover's quarrel last February when I'd walked desolately along Madison Avenue, only to come across a small crowd gathered around the store.
- From atop a tree-house, the big picture of a man with a white flowing beard gazed down on a merry crowd gathered around a huge cake.
- A big crowd gathered around the freshly painted Red Cross Centre to join in the celebrations of the new facilities to the region.
- As we stood there conversing in this manner, a crowd gathered around to listen.
- A crowd of 300 demonstrators gathered around the jail, hurling firebombs, rockets and stones at the patrol.
Synonyms
congregate, convene, assemble, meet, collect, come/get together, muster, rally, converge
cluster together, crowd, mass, flock together
rare foregather
2with object Bring together and take in from scattered places or sources.
收集，采集，搜集
information that we have gathered about people
我们所收集到的人员信息。
Example sentencesExamples
- He gathers information from a variety of sources such as newspapers, trade journals, and books on the latest topics and trends.
- I gathered the information from books and other sources and created the pages.
- The main sources used to gather information were as follows.
- Nevertheless here, and in the Source book, material previously scattered in archives is gathered together and ordered.
- The growth of the internet has made it so easy for people both to gather information from diverse sources and to disseminate information to diverse recipients.
- All the information used for the article was gathered from public sources.
- He scoured medical textbooks and science web sites to gather information on the sources of many human illnesses.
- I tried to gather the suddenly scattered memories of court etiquette that had been drilled into me since I understood the concept of courtesy.
- Journalists will protect their confidential sources and will try to gather information with honest and legal means and will not conceal their occupation.
- All information contained herein is gathered from sources we believe to be reliable.
- We've gathered reports from sources we trust - and we plan to add more.
- Many of the Christian themes scattered throughout his writings are here gathered together.
- ‘For the fifth task, you must gather both flags and bring them back here,’ said Bradley.
- The former is deathmatch with the expected setting choices, while the latter is a competition to gather items scattered around the maps.
- We've gathered information from many sources and organized it to provide complete yet understandable information on decisions you now face.
- A compiled fist is data gathered from third-party public sources, such as government records, newspapers and directories.
- Stars are not scattered randomly through space, they are gathered together into vast groups known as galaxies.
- Earlier literature was gathered from non-electronic sources by the authors.
- I gathered a crew and brought in reinforcements from Brooklyn.
- Student editors spend an enormous amount of time gathering every source cited by the author, then checking each one to make sure it supports what the author is saying.
Synonyms
collect, get together, put together, accumulate, amass, assemble, garner
1. 2.1gather something up Pick something up.
  I gathered up the prescription and went to the door
  我拿起处方跟着他向门口走去。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I gathered my things, brought them out, put them in my notebook, and put it in the filing cabinet.
  I had to gather it up and wash and bleach it to get the muddy paw prints out of the sheets.
  He gathered up some snow, creating a small hill.
  He snapped a few pictures, gathered up the pipes, and returned home.
  My grandmother was not sure who might have gathered up the poet's clothes.
  She gathered up her pictures and tucked them in the pink notebook.
  She gathered up a rusty shovel and a pair of rakes and leaned them against a corner.
  She gathered up her things and hurried after him.
  Instead, Maya's world continued to crumble as she bent down to gather the hay scattered around, refusing to look at the couple now.
  Charlotte reluctantly obeyed her Aunt as they gathered up her belongings, one by one, and packed them into suitcases and bags for the trip to North Carolina.
  We scattered the fire and gathered all of our things.
  Vaguely recognising a cup of coffee and a slice of cake, I gathered them up clumsily and joined the queue towards the cash-register.
  They gathered up the sheet they put on the ground and shoved it into the bundle they carried with them.
  I gathered up a dozen and dropped them on the floor of the forest, far away from our reckless river, at a spot where the sun was shining through.
  She shrugged and gathered up the dirty instruments from my tray.
  He gathered the paper scattered across the desk into a pile, and added it to the heap on the floor, frowning deeply.
  He gathered up the cards, shuffled them, and re-dealt.
  As soon as she reached the Nurse's Station, she gathered up her things and slung her purse over her shoulder, accidentally knocking over a coat stand by the exit.
  All scraps and sawdust should be gathered up and disposed of properly off-site.
  Muttering a curse, she put the other two boxes down before starting to gather the papers scattered all around the hallway and into the living room.
  We gathered the cat back up and walked back to its apartment.
  The place is secluded and beautiful and, as I gathered up some of the golf balls that we'd scattered, her dad and her brother zoomed off on their motorcycles.
  For years thereafter, the comic book would dutifully be gathered up every evening and locked in a safe.
2. 2.2gather something in Harvest grain or other crops.
  the harvest of wheat and barley had been gathered in
  Example sentencesExamples
  August to November heralds another period of fair weather, when the harvest is gathered in.
  To most Pagans Samhain is a sacred day - a time when the last harvests are gathered in before winter's arrival, and the time when family members who have passed away are remembered and honored.
  The abundance of apple sellers, though, harks back to the old days when all the crops would be gathered in and no fruit picked after this date for the puca, a supernatural being, would be busy spoiling unpicked fruit at Halloween.
  Synonyms
  collect, get together, put together, accumulate, amass, assemble, garner
3. 2.3no object Collect plants, fruits, etc., for food.
  采摘植物或水果等（作为食物）
  the Bushmen live by hunting and gathering
  丛林居民就是靠打猎和采摘野果为生。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Life inside the reserve is harsh, as the Bushmen are banned from hunting, gathering and collecting firewood.
  After two quick rounds of food gathering, the students learn about the variety of animal species that live underground and glean insight into their fragile cave habitat.
  I even threw some tortilla chips on the ground, and the jays gathered up the chips as rapidly as they did the peanuts.
  Following a difficult voyage, the sailors enjoyed some months on Tahiti gathering and cultivating breadfruit plants.
  The diet of Inuit hunters in the Arctic is composed almost entirely of meat and fish, but most hunter-gatherers in other parts of the world obtain more food from gathering plants than from hunting animals.
  This led to the creation of tools to aid them in their activities such as hunting and food gathering.
  Sixteen Irish people would be brought to an uninhabited island in the South Pacific and left there to survive on the food they could gather or kill for themselves.
  It has changed from necessary food gathering to commercial harvest by way of eel traps.
  For example, bereaved relatives were not allowed to participate in food gathering until someone fed them the first wild rice or maple sugar of the season.
  The basic economy of hunting, fishing, and food gathering, and the settlement pattern that focused on lake margins and river valley locations, remained unchanged.
  Apples and pears, when lying on the ground, could be gathered up as public fruit.
  Who will feed those kids if they go to school and their parents are working in the dingiest of atmospheres to gather barely enough food to feed themselves?
  After collecting several branches of large red berries, he gathered as many wedge fruit as he could carry from the nearby tree and walked back to their spot on the grass.
  In some areas of low population density hunting of wild pigs predominates, along with food gathering, hunting and collection of wild plants and animals.
  Because they need a lot of food, especially when the days shorten and sustenance becomes scarce, chickadees spend all autumn gathering and storing food.
  Botanical knowledge is (and would have been in prehistory) greatest among the women who gather, collect, harvest, and process plant resources.
  Women performed extensive plant gathering, including a wide variety of roots, berries, and seeds.
  Based on situational requirements these handguns can be used for food gathering, and in some instances, defense against dangerous wild animals.
  The summer months were the time when the villagers would collectively gather, grow and store firewood and food to help tide the long winter months.
  Expect to see more extreme food gathering from these boys in future episodes.
  Synonyms
  harvest, collect, reap, pick, pluck, garner, crop, glean
4. 2.4 Pull (someone) into one's arms.
  she gathered the child in her arms
  Example sentencesExamples
  She reached out for him, with both hands outstretched, and he responded by standing, and gently pulling her to her feet, and gathering her into his arms.
  In the next instant I felt him pulling me to him, gathering me into his arms.
  He stretches over her onto his side of the bed and slides into it, pulling the covers up and gathering her into his arms.
  I gathered up my little ones with just the clothes we were wearing and left for good, not looking back and not knowing our destiny.
  Then we'd stopped and Wilson had gathered me into his arms, pulling me onto his lap as he claimed a swing.
  The two embrace and gather the child between them.
  He gathered me up into his arms and pulled me close into him.
  He smiled at her and then gathered her into an embrace holding her tightly with his muscular arms.
  Synonyms
  clasp, clutch, take, pull, embrace, enfold, hold, hug, cuddle, squeeze
  literary embosom
  archaic strain
3with object Increase in (speed, force, etc.)
the destroyer gathered speed
Example sentencesExamples
- If you set a snowball off down a hill it will gather speed and momentum and that's what's happened here.
- As this change gathers pace, many clubs - a legacy of the city's proud working-class past - are in trouble.
- Colliding with shorter broken lines along the way, each element seems to gather energy and speed in a display of centrifugal force.
- By the mid-1990s, a new strategy began to gather force.
- The feminist movement of the 1980s was really gathering pace.
- The first section can be a bit slow and plodding but once the book gathers steam the second and third sections shine like well burnished steel rails.
- Marie gets out her map as the train gathers speed toward Elephant and Castle.
- Then it gathered speed and fell with an enormous crash.
- The whirlwind romance took a little time to gather speed - just a quarter of a century.
- When bad times hit, they lose faith, and, instead of giving a new product time to gather speed, they force it into a seemingly more certain, established market.
- The battle for a second doctors' surgery in Westbury gathered pace this week, with residents being urged to take the fight to their local MP.
- After pitching the ball gathered tremendous pace.
- The inter-county hurling and football championships have been gathering pace this past few weeks.
- Developments off O'Connell Street are also gathering pace.
- The battle to secure a household recycling centre for Westbury gathered pace this week as senior councillors were urged to back the plan.
- The result of these forces gathering momentum in the coming fight over policy, he says, will be an historic clash with massive implications for the coming decades.
- As we gathered speed out of Mazatlan, the empty window frames offered a cooling breeze through the stuffy carriage, and I started to take stock of the characters travelling around us.
- The result was the first in a series of ‘restructurings’ which would gather pace in the 1980s.
- The effect of compounding is often used to show how much a relatively small investment can grow into a surprisingly large sum as the benefit of receiving interest on interest gathers pace over the years.
- The desire for speed gathered momentum in the twentieth century as America's strategic obligations broadened across the globe.
- Slowly at first but then gathering pace the 4,100 tonne warship began to sink.
- There were lots of reasons which gathered speed over the years but I still love him.
- Manchester has pledged to blast away the menace of graffiti ‘once and for all’ as its 100-day clean-up gathers pace.
- As my steep decline into grumpy old manhood gathers pace, I realise I no longer know how to manage even the simplest of contemporary transactions.
- The prog rock revival gathered pace last year when they toured Europe, South America and South East Asia.
- Smoke twisted from the jaws of the stack, the big wheel turned, slowly at first, gathering momentum and speed.
- Until our campaign gathers speed - and we'd imagine we're in for a pretty long wait - we have an archery game for you to play today.
- It couldn't come at a better time for us, as our improvement programme gathers pace.
- It appeared to gather speed and then veered off to her right and out of her view.
- The quest to find one of Croydon's best known independent stores a new home gathered pace this week.
- As Burt feared, the snowball started to roll and it was gathering pace.
- I braced myself as we sped up the hard shoulder for what seemed like an eternity before we'd gathered enough speed to join the motorway.
- To do so would be a mistake, for the novel gathers force and what appears to be a woolly, romantic start turns out to be necessary and crafted.
- As the glacier gathers speed on the steeper sides of the mountain, it contorts and breaks, forming gnarled canyons and crevices of blue ice which are both beautiful and lethal.
- Inspired by prohibition in the US, his campaign soon gathered momentum and the Alliance became a political force to be reckoned with.
- He gathered speed and hovered near the largest group of battling soldiers.
- After a somewhat awkward first 15 min, the film gathers its pace and form, touching greatness on many levels, not least the performances and camera use.
- The club directly above them is gathering a worrying degree of momentum.
- Moving under its own weight, the trolley gathered speed up to 40 mph and would have reached the men on the track at Tebay in minutes.
- One of Australia's most influential union leaders has called for the top income tax rate to be slashed to 30 cents in the dollar as the push for widespread tax reform gathers pace.
- As the biotech and digital revolutions gather pace, so the cost of their primary product, knowledge, grows at an exponential rate.
4with object Infer; understand.
推断，猜测；以为
with clause I gathered that they were old friends
Example sentencesExamples
- The director, one gathers, wants a Paris Commune purified of all its difficult and perhaps unpleasant associations, a kind of utopian model to hold out to today's radical protesters.
- Indeed, the genre blurring of the title is intended, one gathers, to apply not only to Manet and Flaubert but also to Reed's own text.
- You will have gathered by now that it would be an understatement to say he is no admirer of his subject.
- One gathers from their questions that this was a rare encounter.
Synonyms
understand, be given to understand, believe, be led to believe, think, conclude, come to the conclusion, deduce, infer, draw the inference, assume, surmise, fancy
take it, hear, hear tell, be informed, notice, see, learn, discover
5with object Summon up (a mental or physical attribute) for a purpose.
（出于某种目的）集中（思想）；积聚（体力）
she lay gathering her thoughts together
他躺在那儿整理思绪。
he gathered himself for a tremendous leap
他用力向前跳了一大步。
Example sentencesExamples
- When they've gathered themselves within striking range, we're dead.
- For years he had longed for his friendship with this woman to become something more, and having recently gathered up the nerve to court her, his wishes had been granted.
- Still, after a certain number of blows, I managed to gather myself to the degree that I knew what to do, which was to run.
- He gathered himself up and tried to perform first aid.
- In search of some peace, I gathered myself out of bed.
- Finally, I gathered my courage and brought my gaze up to look at him.
- She could hear then breathing and gathering their courage.
- That barren garden: where, presumably, he soon woke, wounded, worried, gathering himself together, and vowed never to return.
- John gathered himself up, trying to look important.
- That was when she gathered her senses and noticed the mosaic floor beneath her.
- Somehow, they gathered themselves to beat Limerick in the first round of the qualifiers but the core discontent hadn't been addressed.
- He stared for a moment, gathered himself mentally, and bowed his head.
- I chuckled, but finally gathered myself and stopped laughing.
- He blinked a few times before he gathered himself.
- He gathered himself up with as much dignity as he could muster before glaring at me.
- Thankfully that was not the case as the lads once again gathered themselves and shot two late points to secure that all-important victory.
- But they gathered themselves and came good at the last.
- She gathered herself up and took a good look around.
- Brian stopped at the red light, and gathered himself.
- Feeling utterly stupid I gathered myself up from under the rubble and hobbled inelegantly to find a first aider.
Synonyms
summon, summon up, call together, bring together, assemble, convene, rally, round up
collect, muster, marshal, organize
formal convoke
1. 5.1 Gain or recover (one's breath)
  喘（气）
  she paused to gather her breath and leaned against the wall puffing
  Example sentencesExamples
  Refusing to panic, she gathered her breath and struggled to release her foot and leg.
  I try to imagine this, taking the opportunity to gather my breath before returning to the fray.
  When she finally gathered her breath she smirked.
  I suspect that, if I get to look back on it at the end of the decade, this will seem to have been a year for gathering breath and gaining strength, a pause in the unwritten plan.
  It must have the stamina to sing with only short pauses to gather breath, and its notes must be loud and clear.
  She paused a moment to gather breath as she felt dizzy from using her powers.
  The effort must have taken a lot out of him, but when he had gathered enough breath to speak, he did so with panting breaths.
  No sooner had I closed my notebook on it pending a future revision and expansion than the wind slewed round, gathered breath, and commenced to blow.
  She had just run from an inn on the outskirts of the town, and still gathered her breath from the way.
  It was rather tight and it was slightly hard to gather enough air to breathe, but I managed.
  He gathered his breath, thought about patting the vacant place next to him as an invitation for Rosa to sit, and tried to smile.
  She took a few moments to gather enough breath to get anything audible out.
  We'll take a bit of a break to gather our breath and then decide exactly when we should go to market.
  Look, gather your breath and have a good rest and keep your chin up because the Court of Criminal Appeal have really done you proud.
  She paused for a moment, as if gathering her breath for another onslaught of rapid-fire questions.
6with object Draw and hold together (fabric or a part of a garment) by running thread through it.
用针线（将织物或衣服的一部分）打褶裥
the front is gathered at the waist
前面在腰部打褶。
Example sentencesExamples
- Pull the basting bobbin threads to gather the skirt.
- The fabric is gathered at the waist with a belt which is tied at the side.
- The dress was a pale lime green, it had a wasp waist and the skirt was gathered the tiniest bit to give it some twirl.
- Jersey and stretch linen are gathered faintly reminiscent of ancient Greece, yet wrapped around the body in hourglass silhouettes.
- The cami tied around my neck and scooped in the back, with some ruffly parts down the middle of the back (not overblown ruffles, just gathered fabric).
- Pull up the threads to gather the fabric into pleats.
- Affix rope, fringe or cording to an ordinary throw pillow or gathered slipcover skirt.
Synonyms
pleat, shirr, pucker, tuck, fold, corrugate, ruffle, crimp, crease, scrunch up

noun ˈɡaðəˈɡæðər

gathers

A part of a garment that is gathered.
织物的打褶裥处
Example sentencesExamples
- In their Seam Displacement series, by applying an extraordinary cutting and tailoring technique, students were able to displace seams, pleats and gathers for a new look.
- The soleplate comes to a point, making it easy to iron button bands and gathers.
- It ripples and furrows, drips in long trails, gathers in gritty, crusty patches.
- This is how pattern drafters take a bust dart from the basic design and move it to the shoulder, then replace it with gathers rather than a dart.
- This full-length jersey has a double shoulder/yoke with full-cut sleeves and underarm gusset, plus elastic ribbed gathers on edges of sleeves.
- Ruffles, lace, pin tucks, gathers, folkloric embroidery or lettuce leaf edging are the perfect accent to more classic silhouettes or a pair of well-worn jeans.
- Buy a runner that is approximately 1 1/2 times the width of your window; the extra width will allow for soft, gentle gathers.
- Pear shaped women tend to have bigger bottoms so choose garments that have easing at the waistline with soft pleats and gathers.
- For evening, the collection is a procession of gathers, plunging necklines and backs, irregular lines.
- This can be accomplished at side seams, the center back seam, gathers, pleats, darts or a combination of the above.
- The prismatic oil-stick scrawls are applied in intricate gathers, loose skeins and impenetrable tangles.
- Small tucks or soft gathers can accomplish the same thing.
- The garments would have soft volume with gathers, frills, layers and plenty of patterns, reads the forecast.

Phrases

gather way

(of a ship) begin to move.
（船）开始移动，加速
slowly the two tugs gathered way
Example sentencesExamples
- The boat slows, stops, and if the lever isn't pushed into neutral, she'll gather way astern.
- Shortly afterwards she began to move down the bank, bumped, gathered way and then bumped very heavily.
- Then with a casual twist she pirouetted and now bows-on to the scene of impending carnage, quietly, almost innocently, began to gather way once more.
- Gradually the two battleships gathered way and proceeded to head down the river abreast of each other.
- The moment the engine is speeded up the clutch comes in, backward movement is checked and the car gathers way up the hill.
- The U-boat then gathered way and disappeared into the darkness.
- It bellied in the wind, and the dark wave hissed loud at the keel, as she gathered way over the water.
- At one time just before she commenced to gather way and draw off we were no more than a hundred yards from that towering cliff of ice which it looked as if our yardarms were going to touch.
- She gathered way quickly, went about like clockwork and stopped when the need arose as if she had power braking.
- If the Alps were strongly manned, the movement for independence would gather way and the Gallic provinces decide the limits of their dominion at will.

Derivatives

gatherer

noun ˈɡaðərəˈɡæð(ə)rər

Legislation to curtail the development of these technologies and their use and abuse by intelligence gatherers would only succeed in pushing the activity further out of view.
Example sentencesExamples
- ‘These people are actually paid and trained semi-professional evidence gatherers, and they are not police officers,’ he said.
- ‘We've already lined up squads of volunteer signature gatherers,’ she says mischievously.
- For much of the 200,000 or so years prior to agriculture, humans lived as nomadic hunters, gatherers and scavengers - surviving solely on wild plants and animals.
- They were once masters of these forests - hunters and gatherers - who depended on the vegetation for their livelihood.

Origin

Old English gaderian, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch gaderen, also to together.

good from Old English:
The ancient root of good probably meant ‘to bring together, unite’ which was also the source of gather (Old English). In 1957 British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan said, ‘Let us be frank about it: most of our people have never had it so good’. ‘You Never Had It So Good’ was the US Democratic Party slogan during the 1952 election campaign. Also in 1952, Kentucky Fried Chicken opened its first outlet, and for many years its slogan has been ‘It's finger-lickin' good’. Good Friday, the Friday before Easter Day, on which Christ was crucified, uses good in the old sense ‘observed as holy’. Our word goodbye (late 16th century) is actually a shortened form of the phrase God be with you. In time good replaced God, in line with phrases such as good morning and goodnight. Sweets and cakes have been goodies since the mid 18th century, and the childish exclamation goody is first recorded not much later. Goody goody gumdrops was the catchphrase of Humphrey Lestocq, the host of the British children's TV show Whirligig in the 1950s.

Rhymes

blather, foregather, slather

Definition of gather in US English:

gather

verbˈɡæðərˈɡaT͟Hər

1no object Come together; assemble or accumulate.
集合；聚集，累积
a crowd gathered in the square
Example sentencesExamples
- Philip's statement brought a ripple of laughter from the crowd of assembled contestants gathered around the archery range.
- He said that when he arrived on the scene at 2.46 pm a crowd of youths had gathered around the southern edge of the lagoon, off Northfield Lane.
- And again, she told herself that as she entered the party and viewed the crowd of fans gathered around him.
- It seems that a crowd of them had gathered around the quarrelling demonstrators, while the British cops attempted to keep the two sides apart.
- The grocery shop was next door to the sweet shop and when I got there I saw a crowd of children gathered around a television camera and some photographers.
- A crowd of 300 demonstrators gathered around the jail, hurling firebombs, rockets and stones at the patrol.
- Many in a strong crowd, who had gathered around the screens, were heard to remark it was all about politics rather than singing and the song.
- Crowds also gathered around a television where footage of the annual school drills from the 1960s was being shown.
- And judging from the crowds gathered around the trophy and the queues looping around the Brunel Plaza, the tour looks to be on target for success.
- Nearby, anxious crowds gathered around lists of injured posted on the walls of the hospital buildings.
- From atop a tree-house, the big picture of a man with a white flowing beard gazed down on a merry crowd gathered around a huge cake.
- Mike looked around at the assemblage gathered around him.
- I still remember a lover's quarrel last February when I'd walked desolately along Madison Avenue, only to come across a small crowd gathered around the store.
- As we stood there conversing in this manner, a crowd gathered around to listen.
- A lot of young girls had experienced terrible intimidation by the crowds gathered around the shop in the past.
- A big crowd gathered around the freshly painted Red Cross Centre to join in the celebrations of the new facilities to the region.
- A crowd gathered around one of the burned-out cars.
- The sporting entertainment kicked off early in the day as crowds gathered around large TV screens to watch the World Cup final.
- A crowd had gathered around one of the cottages in the town square.
- Large crowds have gathered around him, and he begins to teach them.
Synonyms
congregate, convene, assemble, meet, collect, come together, get together, muster, rally, converge
2with object Bring together and take in from scattered places or sources.
收集，采集，搜集
we have gathered the information
Example sentencesExamples
- The former is deathmatch with the expected setting choices, while the latter is a competition to gather items scattered around the maps.
- A compiled fist is data gathered from third-party public sources, such as government records, newspapers and directories.
- All the information used for the article was gathered from public sources.
- The main sources used to gather information were as follows.
- Nevertheless here, and in the Source book, material previously scattered in archives is gathered together and ordered.
- I gathered a crew and brought in reinforcements from Brooklyn.
- We've gathered information from many sources and organized it to provide complete yet understandable information on decisions you now face.
- ‘For the fifth task, you must gather both flags and bring them back here,’ said Bradley.
- He scoured medical textbooks and science web sites to gather information on the sources of many human illnesses.
- Earlier literature was gathered from non-electronic sources by the authors.
- Stars are not scattered randomly through space, they are gathered together into vast groups known as galaxies.
- I gathered the information from books and other sources and created the pages.
- Student editors spend an enormous amount of time gathering every source cited by the author, then checking each one to make sure it supports what the author is saying.
- We've gathered reports from sources we trust - and we plan to add more.
- The growth of the internet has made it so easy for people both to gather information from diverse sources and to disseminate information to diverse recipients.
- He gathers information from a variety of sources such as newspapers, trade journals, and books on the latest topics and trends.
- Many of the Christian themes scattered throughout his writings are here gathered together.
- All information contained herein is gathered from sources we believe to be reliable.
- I tried to gather the suddenly scattered memories of court etiquette that had been drilled into me since I understood the concept of courtesy.
- Journalists will protect their confidential sources and will try to gather information with honest and legal means and will not conceal their occupation.
Synonyms
collect, get together, put together, accumulate, amass, assemble, garner
1. 2.1 Pick up from the ground or a surface.
  （从地上或平面上）拣起，拾起
  they gathered up the dirty plates and cups
  Example sentencesExamples
  All scraps and sawdust should be gathered up and disposed of properly off-site.
  He snapped a few pictures, gathered up the pipes, and returned home.
  I gathered my things, brought them out, put them in my notebook, and put it in the filing cabinet.
  As soon as she reached the Nurse's Station, she gathered up her things and slung her purse over her shoulder, accidentally knocking over a coat stand by the exit.
  For years thereafter, the comic book would dutifully be gathered up every evening and locked in a safe.
  I gathered up a dozen and dropped them on the floor of the forest, far away from our reckless river, at a spot where the sun was shining through.
  Vaguely recognising a cup of coffee and a slice of cake, I gathered them up clumsily and joined the queue towards the cash-register.
  I had to gather it up and wash and bleach it to get the muddy paw prints out of the sheets.
  She gathered up her things and hurried after him.
  She gathered up a rusty shovel and a pair of rakes and leaned them against a corner.
  The place is secluded and beautiful and, as I gathered up some of the golf balls that we'd scattered, her dad and her brother zoomed off on their motorcycles.
  They gathered up the sheet they put on the ground and shoved it into the bundle they carried with them.
  He gathered up the cards, shuffled them, and re-dealt.
  My grandmother was not sure who might have gathered up the poet's clothes.
  She gathered up her pictures and tucked them in the pink notebook.
  He gathered up some snow, creating a small hill.
  He gathered the paper scattered across the desk into a pile, and added it to the heap on the floor, frowning deeply.
  We scattered the fire and gathered all of our things.
  Instead, Maya's world continued to crumble as she bent down to gather the hay scattered around, refusing to look at the couple now.
  We gathered the cat back up and walked back to its apartment.
  Muttering a curse, she put the other two boxes down before starting to gather the papers scattered all around the hallway and into the living room.
  Charlotte reluctantly obeyed her Aunt as they gathered up her belongings, one by one, and packed them into suitcases and bags for the trip to North Carolina.
  She shrugged and gathered up the dirty instruments from my tray.
2. 2.2 Collect (grain or other crops) as a harvest.
  收割（庄稼）
  Example sentencesExamples
  To most Pagans Samhain is a sacred day - a time when the last harvests are gathered in before winter's arrival, and the time when family members who have passed away are remembered and honored.
  The abundance of apple sellers, though, harks back to the old days when all the crops would be gathered in and no fruit picked after this date for the puca, a supernatural being, would be busy spoiling unpicked fruit at Halloween.
  August to November heralds another period of fair weather, when the harvest is gathered in.
  Synonyms
  collect, get together, put together, accumulate, amass, assemble, garner
3. 2.3 Collect plants, fruits, etc., for food.
  采摘植物或水果等（作为食物）
  Example sentencesExamples
  Sixteen Irish people would be brought to an uninhabited island in the South Pacific and left there to survive on the food they could gather or kill for themselves.
  Because they need a lot of food, especially when the days shorten and sustenance becomes scarce, chickadees spend all autumn gathering and storing food.
  After collecting several branches of large red berries, he gathered as many wedge fruit as he could carry from the nearby tree and walked back to their spot on the grass.
  Life inside the reserve is harsh, as the Bushmen are banned from hunting, gathering and collecting firewood.
  Expect to see more extreme food gathering from these boys in future episodes.
  Who will feed those kids if they go to school and their parents are working in the dingiest of atmospheres to gather barely enough food to feed themselves?
  This led to the creation of tools to aid them in their activities such as hunting and food gathering.
  Apples and pears, when lying on the ground, could be gathered up as public fruit.
  I even threw some tortilla chips on the ground, and the jays gathered up the chips as rapidly as they did the peanuts.
  Based on situational requirements these handguns can be used for food gathering, and in some instances, defense against dangerous wild animals.
  For example, bereaved relatives were not allowed to participate in food gathering until someone fed them the first wild rice or maple sugar of the season.
  Women performed extensive plant gathering, including a wide variety of roots, berries, and seeds.
  After two quick rounds of food gathering, the students learn about the variety of animal species that live underground and glean insight into their fragile cave habitat.
  The basic economy of hunting, fishing, and food gathering, and the settlement pattern that focused on lake margins and river valley locations, remained unchanged.
  Following a difficult voyage, the sailors enjoyed some months on Tahiti gathering and cultivating breadfruit plants.
  In some areas of low population density hunting of wild pigs predominates, along with food gathering, hunting and collection of wild plants and animals.
  Botanical knowledge is (and would have been in prehistory) greatest among the women who gather, collect, harvest, and process plant resources.
  It has changed from necessary food gathering to commercial harvest by way of eel traps.
  The summer months were the time when the villagers would collectively gather, grow and store firewood and food to help tide the long winter months.
  The diet of Inuit hunters in the Arctic is composed almost entirely of meat and fish, but most hunter-gatherers in other parts of the world obtain more food from gathering plants than from hunting animals.
  Synonyms
  harvest, collect, reap, pick, pluck, garner, crop, glean
4. 2.4 Draw together or toward oneself.
  把…拉在一起，把…拉向自己
  she gathered the child in her arms
  Example sentencesExamples
  Then we'd stopped and Wilson had gathered me into his arms, pulling me onto his lap as he claimed a swing.
  I gathered up my little ones with just the clothes we were wearing and left for good, not looking back and not knowing our destiny.
  He stretches over her onto his side of the bed and slides into it, pulling the covers up and gathering her into his arms.
  The two embrace and gather the child between them.
  In the next instant I felt him pulling me to him, gathering me into his arms.
  She reached out for him, with both hands outstretched, and he responded by standing, and gently pulling her to her feet, and gathering her into his arms.
  He smiled at her and then gathered her into an embrace holding her tightly with his muscular arms.
  He gathered me up into his arms and pulled me close into him.
  Synonyms
  clasp, clutch, take, pull, embrace, enfold, hold, hug, cuddle, squeeze
3with object Develop a higher degree of.
增加，积聚
the green movement is gathering pace
绿色行动正在加快步伐。
Example sentencesExamples
- The desire for speed gathered momentum in the twentieth century as America's strategic obligations broadened across the globe.
- The quest to find one of Croydon's best known independent stores a new home gathered pace this week.
- When bad times hit, they lose faith, and, instead of giving a new product time to gather speed, they force it into a seemingly more certain, established market.
- To do so would be a mistake, for the novel gathers force and what appears to be a woolly, romantic start turns out to be necessary and crafted.
- Until our campaign gathers speed - and we'd imagine we're in for a pretty long wait - we have an archery game for you to play today.
- He gathered speed and hovered near the largest group of battling soldiers.
- One of Australia's most influential union leaders has called for the top income tax rate to be slashed to 30 cents in the dollar as the push for widespread tax reform gathers pace.
- The first section can be a bit slow and plodding but once the book gathers steam the second and third sections shine like well burnished steel rails.
- The whirlwind romance took a little time to gather speed - just a quarter of a century.
- Moving under its own weight, the trolley gathered speed up to 40 mph and would have reached the men on the track at Tebay in minutes.
- Inspired by prohibition in the US, his campaign soon gathered momentum and the Alliance became a political force to be reckoned with.
- As Burt feared, the snowball started to roll and it was gathering pace.
- I braced myself as we sped up the hard shoulder for what seemed like an eternity before we'd gathered enough speed to join the motorway.
- After a somewhat awkward first 15 min, the film gathers its pace and form, touching greatness on many levels, not least the performances and camera use.
- Developments off O'Connell Street are also gathering pace.
- The battle for a second doctors' surgery in Westbury gathered pace this week, with residents being urged to take the fight to their local MP.
- The battle to secure a household recycling centre for Westbury gathered pace this week as senior councillors were urged to back the plan.
- The result of these forces gathering momentum in the coming fight over policy, he says, will be an historic clash with massive implications for the coming decades.
- The prog rock revival gathered pace last year when they toured Europe, South America and South East Asia.
- Smoke twisted from the jaws of the stack, the big wheel turned, slowly at first, gathering momentum and speed.
- If you set a snowball off down a hill it will gather speed and momentum and that's what's happened here.
- Then it gathered speed and fell with an enormous crash.
- As the biotech and digital revolutions gather pace, so the cost of their primary product, knowledge, grows at an exponential rate.
- The effect of compounding is often used to show how much a relatively small investment can grow into a surprisingly large sum as the benefit of receiving interest on interest gathers pace over the years.
- By the mid-1990s, a new strategy began to gather force.
- The feminist movement of the 1980s was really gathering pace.
- Manchester has pledged to blast away the menace of graffiti ‘once and for all’ as its 100-day clean-up gathers pace.
- As we gathered speed out of Mazatlan, the empty window frames offered a cooling breeze through the stuffy carriage, and I started to take stock of the characters travelling around us.
- The result was the first in a series of ‘restructurings’ which would gather pace in the 1980s.
- As my steep decline into grumpy old manhood gathers pace, I realise I no longer know how to manage even the simplest of contemporary transactions.
- Colliding with shorter broken lines along the way, each element seems to gather energy and speed in a display of centrifugal force.
- It couldn't come at a better time for us, as our improvement programme gathers pace.
- After pitching the ball gathered tremendous pace.
- The club directly above them is gathering a worrying degree of momentum.
- It appeared to gather speed and then veered off to her right and out of her view.
- As this change gathers pace, many clubs - a legacy of the city's proud working-class past - are in trouble.
- As the glacier gathers speed on the steeper sides of the mountain, it contorts and breaks, forming gnarled canyons and crevices of blue ice which are both beautiful and lethal.
- There were lots of reasons which gathered speed over the years but I still love him.
- Slowly at first but then gathering pace the 4,100 tonne warship began to sink.
- The inter-county hurling and football championships have been gathering pace this past few weeks.
- Marie gets out her map as the train gathers speed toward Elephant and Castle.
4with object Infer; understand.
推断，猜测；以为
her clients were, I gathered, a prosperous group
Example sentencesExamples
- You will have gathered by now that it would be an understatement to say he is no admirer of his subject.
- The director, one gathers, wants a Paris Commune purified of all its difficult and perhaps unpleasant associations, a kind of utopian model to hold out to today's radical protesters.
- One gathers from their questions that this was a rare encounter.
- Indeed, the genre blurring of the title is intended, one gathers, to apply not only to Manet and Flaubert but also to Reed's own text.
Synonyms
understand, be given to understand, believe, be led to believe, think, conclude, come to the conclusion, deduce, infer, draw the inference, assume, surmise, fancy
5with object Summon up (a mental or physical attribute such as one's thoughts or strength) for a purpose.
（出于某种目的）集中（思想）；积聚（体力）
he lay gathering his thoughts together
他躺在那儿整理思绪。
he gathered himself for a tremendous leap
他用力向前跳了一大步。
Example sentencesExamples
- She could hear then breathing and gathering their courage.
- She gathered herself up and took a good look around.
- He gathered himself up and tried to perform first aid.
- Feeling utterly stupid I gathered myself up from under the rubble and hobbled inelegantly to find a first aider.
- Brian stopped at the red light, and gathered himself.
- Somehow, they gathered themselves to beat Limerick in the first round of the qualifiers but the core discontent hadn't been addressed.
- For years he had longed for his friendship with this woman to become something more, and having recently gathered up the nerve to court her, his wishes had been granted.
- That was when she gathered her senses and noticed the mosaic floor beneath her.
- I chuckled, but finally gathered myself and stopped laughing.
- In search of some peace, I gathered myself out of bed.
- When they've gathered themselves within striking range, we're dead.
- He stared for a moment, gathered himself mentally, and bowed his head.
- He blinked a few times before he gathered himself.
- That barren garden: where, presumably, he soon woke, wounded, worried, gathering himself together, and vowed never to return.
- John gathered himself up, trying to look important.
- Thankfully that was not the case as the lads once again gathered themselves and shot two late points to secure that all-important victory.
- But they gathered themselves and came good at the last.
- He gathered himself up with as much dignity as he could muster before glaring at me.
- Still, after a certain number of blows, I managed to gather myself to the degree that I knew what to do, which was to run.
- Finally, I gathered my courage and brought my gaze up to look at him.
Synonyms
summon, summon up, call together, bring together, assemble, convene, rally, round up
6with object Draw and hold together (fabric or a part of a garment) by running thread through it.
用针线（将织物或衣服的一部分）打褶裥
the front is gathered at the waist
前面在腰部打褶。
Example sentencesExamples
- Affix rope, fringe or cording to an ordinary throw pillow or gathered slipcover skirt.
- Jersey and stretch linen are gathered faintly reminiscent of ancient Greece, yet wrapped around the body in hourglass silhouettes.
- Pull up the threads to gather the fabric into pleats.
- The cami tied around my neck and scooped in the back, with some ruffly parts down the middle of the back (not overblown ruffles, just gathered fabric).
- The fabric is gathered at the waist with a belt which is tied at the side.
- Pull the basting bobbin threads to gather the skirt.
- The dress was a pale lime green, it had a wasp waist and the skirt was gathered the tiniest bit to give it some twirl.
Synonyms
pleat, shirr, pucker, tuck, fold, corrugate, ruffle, crimp, crease, scrunch up

nounˈɡæðərˈɡaT͟Hər

gathers

A part of a garment that is gathered or drawn in.
织物的打褶裥处
Example sentencesExamples
- Small tucks or soft gathers can accomplish the same thing.
- The soleplate comes to a point, making it easy to iron button bands and gathers.
- This can be accomplished at side seams, the center back seam, gathers, pleats, darts or a combination of the above.
- Ruffles, lace, pin tucks, gathers, folkloric embroidery or lettuce leaf edging are the perfect accent to more classic silhouettes or a pair of well-worn jeans.
- Buy a runner that is approximately 1 1/2 times the width of your window; the extra width will allow for soft, gentle gathers.
- In their Seam Displacement series, by applying an extraordinary cutting and tailoring technique, students were able to displace seams, pleats and gathers for a new look.
- The garments would have soft volume with gathers, frills, layers and plenty of patterns, reads the forecast.
- This full-length jersey has a double shoulder/yoke with full-cut sleeves and underarm gusset, plus elastic ribbed gathers on edges of sleeves.
- Pear shaped women tend to have bigger bottoms so choose garments that have easing at the waistline with soft pleats and gathers.
- This is how pattern drafters take a bust dart from the basic design and move it to the shoulder, then replace it with gathers rather than a dart.
- It ripples and furrows, drips in long trails, gathers in gritty, crusty patches.
- The prismatic oil-stick scrawls are applied in intricate gathers, loose skeins and impenetrable tangles.
- For evening, the collection is a procession of gathers, plunging necklines and backs, irregular lines.

Phrases

gather way

(of a ship) begin to move.
（船）开始移动，加速
Example sentencesExamples
- The moment the engine is speeded up the clutch comes in, backward movement is checked and the car gathers way up the hill.
- The U-boat then gathered way and disappeared into the darkness.
- Gradually the two battleships gathered way and proceeded to head down the river abreast of each other.
- Then with a casual twist she pirouetted and now bows-on to the scene of impending carnage, quietly, almost innocently, began to gather way once more.
- If the Alps were strongly manned, the movement for independence would gather way and the Gallic provinces decide the limits of their dominion at will.
- She gathered way quickly, went about like clockwork and stopped when the need arose as if she had power braking.
- Shortly afterwards she began to move down the bank, bumped, gathered way and then bumped very heavily.
- At one time just before she commenced to gather way and draw off we were no more than a hundred yards from that towering cliff of ice which it looked as if our yardarms were going to touch.
- The boat slows, stops, and if the lever isn't pushed into neutral, she'll gather way astern.
- It bellied in the wind, and the dark wave hissed loud at the keel, as she gathered way over the water.

Origin

Old English gaderian, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch gaderen, also to together.

词汇	gather
释义	Definition of gather in English: gather verb ˈɡaðəˈɡæðər 1no object Come together; assemble or accumulate. 集合；聚集，累积 as soon as a crowd gathered, the police came 一群人刚一聚拢，警察就来了。 Example sentencesExamples Mike looked around at the assemblage gathered around him. The sporting entertainment kicked off early in the day as crowds gathered around large TV screens to watch the World Cup final. Large crowds have gathered around him, and he begins to teach them. A crowd gathered around one of the burned-out cars. A crowd had gathered around one of the cottages in the town square. Crowds also gathered around a television where footage of the annual school drills from the 1960s was being shown. And again, she told herself that as she entered the party and viewed the crowd of fans gathered around him. The grocery shop was next door to the sweet shop and when I got there I saw a crowd of children gathered around a television camera and some photographers. It seems that a crowd of them had gathered around the quarrelling demonstrators, while the British cops attempted to keep the two sides apart. He said that when he arrived on the scene at 2.46 pm a crowd of youths had gathered around the southern edge of the lagoon, off Northfield Lane. And judging from the crowds gathered around the trophy and the queues looping around the Brunel Plaza, the tour looks to be on target for success. Philip's statement brought a ripple of laughter from the crowd of assembled contestants gathered around the archery range. A lot of young girls had experienced terrible intimidation by the crowds gathered around the shop in the past. Nearby, anxious crowds gathered around lists of injured posted on the walls of the hospital buildings. Many in a strong crowd, who had gathered around the screens, were heard to remark it was all about politics rather than singing and the song. I still remember a lover's quarrel last February when I'd walked desolately along Madison Avenue, only to come across a small crowd gathered around the store. From atop a tree-house, the big picture of a man with a white flowing beard gazed down on a merry crowd gathered around a huge cake. A big crowd gathered around the freshly painted Red Cross Centre to join in the celebrations of the new facilities to the region. As we stood there conversing in this manner, a crowd gathered around to listen. A crowd of 300 demonstrators gathered around the jail, hurling firebombs, rockets and stones at the patrol. Synonyms congregate, convene, assemble, meet, collect, come/get together, muster, rally, converge cluster together, crowd, mass, flock together rare foregather 2with object Bring together and take in from scattered places or sources. 收集，采集，搜集 information that we have gathered about people 我们所收集到的人员信息。 Example sentencesExamples He gathers information from a variety of sources such as newspapers, trade journals, and books on the latest topics and trends. I gathered the information from books and other sources and created the pages. The main sources used to gather information were as follows. Nevertheless here, and in the Source book, material previously scattered in archives is gathered together and ordered. The growth of the internet has made it so easy for people both to gather information from diverse sources and to disseminate information to diverse recipients. All the information used for the article was gathered from public sources. He scoured medical textbooks and science web sites to gather information on the sources of many human illnesses. I tried to gather the suddenly scattered memories of court etiquette that had been drilled into me since I understood the concept of courtesy. Journalists will protect their confidential sources and will try to gather information with honest and legal means and will not conceal their occupation. All information contained herein is gathered from sources we believe to be reliable. We've gathered reports from sources we trust - and we plan to add more. Many of the Christian themes scattered throughout his writings are here gathered together. ‘For the fifth task, you must gather both flags and bring them back here,’ said Bradley. The former is deathmatch with the expected setting choices, while the latter is a competition to gather items scattered around the maps. We've gathered information from many sources and organized it to provide complete yet understandable information on decisions you now face. A compiled fist is data gathered from third-party public sources, such as government records, newspapers and directories. Stars are not scattered randomly through space, they are gathered together into vast groups known as galaxies. Earlier literature was gathered from non-electronic sources by the authors. I gathered a crew and brought in reinforcements from Brooklyn. Student editors spend an enormous amount of time gathering every source cited by the author, then checking each one to make sure it supports what the author is saying. Synonyms collect, get together, put together, accumulate, amass, assemble, garner 2.1gather something up Pick something up. I gathered up the prescription and went to the door 我拿起处方跟着他向门口走去。 Example sentencesExamples I gathered my things, brought them out, put them in my notebook, and put it in the filing cabinet. I had to gather it up and wash and bleach it to get the muddy paw prints out of the sheets. He gathered up some snow, creating a small hill. He snapped a few pictures, gathered up the pipes, and returned home. My grandmother was not sure who might have gathered up the poet's clothes. She gathered up her pictures and tucked them in the pink notebook. She gathered up a rusty shovel and a pair of rakes and leaned them against a corner. She gathered up her things and hurried after him. Instead, Maya's world continued to crumble as she bent down to gather the hay scattered around, refusing to look at the couple now. Charlotte reluctantly obeyed her Aunt as they gathered up her belongings, one by one, and packed them into suitcases and bags for the trip to North Carolina. We scattered the fire and gathered all of our things. Vaguely recognising a cup of coffee and a slice of cake, I gathered them up clumsily and joined the queue towards the cash-register. They gathered up the sheet they put on the ground and shoved it into the bundle they carried with them. I gathered up a dozen and dropped them on the floor of the forest, far away from our reckless river, at a spot where the sun was shining through. She shrugged and gathered up the dirty instruments from my tray. He gathered the paper scattered across the desk into a pile, and added it to the heap on the floor, frowning deeply. He gathered up the cards, shuffled them, and re-dealt. As soon as she reached the Nurse's Station, she gathered up her things and slung her purse over her shoulder, accidentally knocking over a coat stand by the exit. All scraps and sawdust should be gathered up and disposed of properly off-site. Muttering a curse, she put the other two boxes down before starting to gather the papers scattered all around the hallway and into the living room. We gathered the cat back up and walked back to its apartment. The place is secluded and beautiful and, as I gathered up some of the golf balls that we'd scattered, her dad and her brother zoomed off on their motorcycles. For years thereafter, the comic book would dutifully be gathered up every evening and locked in a safe. 2.2gather something in Harvest grain or other crops. the harvest of wheat and barley had been gathered in Example sentencesExamples August to November heralds another period of fair weather, when the harvest is gathered in. To most Pagans Samhain is a sacred day - a time when the last harvests are gathered in before winter's arrival, and the time when family members who have passed away are remembered and honored. The abundance of apple sellers, though, harks back to the old days when all the crops would be gathered in and no fruit picked after this date for the puca, a supernatural being, would be busy spoiling unpicked fruit at Halloween. Synonyms collect, get together, put together, accumulate, amass, assemble, garner 2.3no object Collect plants, fruits, etc., for food. 采摘植物或水果等（作为食物） the Bushmen live by hunting and gathering 丛林居民就是靠打猎和采摘野果为生。 Example sentencesExamples Life inside the reserve is harsh, as the Bushmen are banned from hunting, gathering and collecting firewood. After two quick rounds of food gathering, the students learn about the variety of animal species that live underground and glean insight into their fragile cave habitat. I even threw some tortilla chips on the ground, and the jays gathered up the chips as rapidly as they did the peanuts. Following a difficult voyage, the sailors enjoyed some months on Tahiti gathering and cultivating breadfruit plants. The diet of Inuit hunters in the Arctic is composed almost entirely of meat and fish, but most hunter-gatherers in other parts of the world obtain more food from gathering plants than from hunting animals. This led to the creation of tools to aid them in their activities such as hunting and food gathering. Sixteen Irish people would be brought to an uninhabited island in the South Pacific and left there to survive on the food they could gather or kill for themselves. It has changed from necessary food gathering to commercial harvest by way of eel traps. For example, bereaved relatives were not allowed to participate in food gathering until someone fed them the first wild rice or maple sugar of the season. The basic economy of hunting, fishing, and food gathering, and the settlement pattern that focused on lake margins and river valley locations, remained unchanged. Apples and pears, when lying on the ground, could be gathered up as public fruit. Who will feed those kids if they go to school and their parents are working in the dingiest of atmospheres to gather barely enough food to feed themselves? After collecting several branches of large red berries, he gathered as many wedge fruit as he could carry from the nearby tree and walked back to their spot on the grass. In some areas of low population density hunting of wild pigs predominates, along with food gathering, hunting and collection of wild plants and animals. Because they need a lot of food, especially when the days shorten and sustenance becomes scarce, chickadees spend all autumn gathering and storing food. Botanical knowledge is (and would have been in prehistory) greatest among the women who gather, collect, harvest, and process plant resources. Women performed extensive plant gathering, including a wide variety of roots, berries, and seeds. Based on situational requirements these handguns can be used for food gathering, and in some instances, defense against dangerous wild animals. The summer months were the time when the villagers would collectively gather, grow and store firewood and food to help tide the long winter months. Expect to see more extreme food gathering from these boys in future episodes. Synonyms harvest, collect, reap, pick, pluck, garner, crop, glean 2.4 Pull (someone) into one's arms. she gathered the child in her arms Example sentencesExamples She reached out for him, with both hands outstretched, and he responded by standing, and gently pulling her to her feet, and gathering her into his arms. In the next instant I felt him pulling me to him, gathering me into his arms. He stretches over her onto his side of the bed and slides into it, pulling the covers up and gathering her into his arms. I gathered up my little ones with just the clothes we were wearing and left for good, not looking back and not knowing our destiny. Then we'd stopped and Wilson had gathered me into his arms, pulling me onto his lap as he claimed a swing. The two embrace and gather the child between them. He gathered me up into his arms and pulled me close into him. He smiled at her and then gathered her into an embrace holding her tightly with his muscular arms. Synonyms clasp, clutch, take, pull, embrace, enfold, hold, hug, cuddle, squeeze literary embosom archaic strain 3with object Increase in (speed, force, etc.) the destroyer gathered speed Example sentencesExamples If you set a snowball off down a hill it will gather speed and momentum and that's what's happened here. As this change gathers pace, many clubs - a legacy of the city's proud working-class past - are in trouble. Colliding with shorter broken lines along the way, each element seems to gather energy and speed in a display of centrifugal force. By the mid-1990s, a new strategy began to gather force. The feminist movement of the 1980s was really gathering pace. The first section can be a bit slow and plodding but once the book gathers steam the second and third sections shine like well burnished steel rails. Marie gets out her map as the train gathers speed toward Elephant and Castle. Then it gathered speed and fell with an enormous crash. The whirlwind romance took a little time to gather speed - just a quarter of a century. When bad times hit, they lose faith, and, instead of giving a new product time to gather speed, they force it into a seemingly more certain, established market. The battle for a second doctors' surgery in Westbury gathered pace this week, with residents being urged to take the fight to their local MP. After pitching the ball gathered tremendous pace. The inter-county hurling and football championships have been gathering pace this past few weeks. Developments off O'Connell Street are also gathering pace. The battle to secure a household recycling centre for Westbury gathered pace this week as senior councillors were urged to back the plan. The result of these forces gathering momentum in the coming fight over policy, he says, will be an historic clash with massive implications for the coming decades. As we gathered speed out of Mazatlan, the empty window frames offered a cooling breeze through the stuffy carriage, and I started to take stock of the characters travelling around us. The result was the first in a series of ‘restructurings’ which would gather pace in the 1980s. The effect of compounding is often used to show how much a relatively small investment can grow into a surprisingly large sum as the benefit of receiving interest on interest gathers pace over the years. The desire for speed gathered momentum in the twentieth century as America's strategic obligations broadened across the globe. Slowly at first but then gathering pace the 4,100 tonne warship began to sink. There were lots of reasons which gathered speed over the years but I still love him. Manchester has pledged to blast away the menace of graffiti ‘once and for all’ as its 100-day clean-up gathers pace. As my steep decline into grumpy old manhood gathers pace, I realise I no longer know how to manage even the simplest of contemporary transactions. The prog rock revival gathered pace last year when they toured Europe, South America and South East Asia. Smoke twisted from the jaws of the stack, the big wheel turned, slowly at first, gathering momentum and speed. Until our campaign gathers speed - and we'd imagine we're in for a pretty long wait - we have an archery game for you to play today. It couldn't come at a better time for us, as our improvement programme gathers pace. It appeared to gather speed and then veered off to her right and out of her view. The quest to find one of Croydon's best known independent stores a new home gathered pace this week. As Burt feared, the snowball started to roll and it was gathering pace. I braced myself as we sped up the hard shoulder for what seemed like an eternity before we'd gathered enough speed to join the motorway. To do so would be a mistake, for the novel gathers force and what appears to be a woolly, romantic start turns out to be necessary and crafted. As the glacier gathers speed on the steeper sides of the mountain, it contorts and breaks, forming gnarled canyons and crevices of blue ice which are both beautiful and lethal. Inspired by prohibition in the US, his campaign soon gathered momentum and the Alliance became a political force to be reckoned with. He gathered speed and hovered near the largest group of battling soldiers. After a somewhat awkward first 15 min, the film gathers its pace and form, touching greatness on many levels, not least the performances and camera use. The club directly above them is gathering a worrying degree of momentum. Moving under its own weight, the trolley gathered speed up to 40 mph and would have reached the men on the track at Tebay in minutes. One of Australia's most influential union leaders has called for the top income tax rate to be slashed to 30 cents in the dollar as the push for widespread tax reform gathers pace. As the biotech and digital revolutions gather pace, so the cost of their primary product, knowledge, grows at an exponential rate. 4with object Infer; understand. 推断，猜测；以为 with clause I gathered that they were old friends Example sentencesExamples The director, one gathers, wants a Paris Commune purified of all its difficult and perhaps unpleasant associations, a kind of utopian model to hold out to today's radical protesters. Indeed, the genre blurring of the title is intended, one gathers, to apply not only to Manet and Flaubert but also to Reed's own text. You will have gathered by now that it would be an understatement to say he is no admirer of his subject. One gathers from their questions that this was a rare encounter. Synonyms understand, be given to understand, believe, be led to believe, think, conclude, come to the conclusion, deduce, infer, draw the inference, assume, surmise, fancy take it, hear, hear tell, be informed, notice, see, learn, discover 5with object Summon up (a mental or physical attribute) for a purpose. （出于某种目的）集中（思想）；积聚（体力） she lay gathering her thoughts together 他躺在那儿整理思绪。 he gathered himself for a tremendous leap 他用力向前跳了一大步。 Example sentencesExamples When they've gathered themselves within striking range, we're dead. For years he had longed for his friendship with this woman to become something more, and having recently gathered up the nerve to court her, his wishes had been granted. Still, after a certain number of blows, I managed to gather myself to the degree that I knew what to do, which was to run. He gathered himself up and tried to perform first aid. In search of some peace, I gathered myself out of bed. Finally, I gathered my courage and brought my gaze up to look at him. She could hear then breathing and gathering their courage. That barren garden: where, presumably, he soon woke, wounded, worried, gathering himself together, and vowed never to return. John gathered himself up, trying to look important. That was when she gathered her senses and noticed the mosaic floor beneath her. Somehow, they gathered themselves to beat Limerick in the first round of the qualifiers but the core discontent hadn't been addressed. He stared for a moment, gathered himself mentally, and bowed his head. I chuckled, but finally gathered myself and stopped laughing. He blinked a few times before he gathered himself. He gathered himself up with as much dignity as he could muster before glaring at me. Thankfully that was not the case as the lads once again gathered themselves and shot two late points to secure that all-important victory. But they gathered themselves and came good at the last. She gathered herself up and took a good look around. Brian stopped at the red light, and gathered himself. Feeling utterly stupid I gathered myself up from under the rubble and hobbled inelegantly to find a first aider. Synonyms summon, summon up, call together, bring together, assemble, convene, rally, round up collect, muster, marshal, organize formal convoke 5.1 Gain or recover (one's breath) 喘（气） she paused to gather her breath and leaned against the wall puffing Example sentencesExamples Refusing to panic, she gathered her breath and struggled to release her foot and leg. I try to imagine this, taking the opportunity to gather my breath before returning to the fray. When she finally gathered her breath she smirked. I suspect that, if I get to look back on it at the end of the decade, this will seem to have been a year for gathering breath and gaining strength, a pause in the unwritten plan. It must have the stamina to sing with only short pauses to gather breath, and its notes must be loud and clear. She paused a moment to gather breath as she felt dizzy from using her powers. The effort must have taken a lot out of him, but when he had gathered enough breath to speak, he did so with panting breaths. No sooner had I closed my notebook on it pending a future revision and expansion than the wind slewed round, gathered breath, and commenced to blow. She had just run from an inn on the outskirts of the town, and still gathered her breath from the way. It was rather tight and it was slightly hard to gather enough air to breathe, but I managed. He gathered his breath, thought about patting the vacant place next to him as an invitation for Rosa to sit, and tried to smile. She took a few moments to gather enough breath to get anything audible out. We'll take a bit of a break to gather our breath and then decide exactly when we should go to market. Look, gather your breath and have a good rest and keep your chin up because the Court of Criminal Appeal have really done you proud. She paused for a moment, as if gathering her breath for another onslaught of rapid-fire questions. 6with object Draw and hold together (fabric or a part of a garment) by running thread through it. 用针线（将织物或衣服的一部分）打褶裥 the front is gathered at the waist 前面在腰部打褶。 Example sentencesExamples Pull the basting bobbin threads to gather the skirt. The fabric is gathered at the waist with a belt which is tied at the side. The dress was a pale lime green, it had a wasp waist and the skirt was gathered the tiniest bit to give it some twirl. Jersey and stretch linen are gathered faintly reminiscent of ancient Greece, yet wrapped around the body in hourglass silhouettes. The cami tied around my neck and scooped in the back, with some ruffly parts down the middle of the back (not overblown ruffles, just gathered fabric). Pull up the threads to gather the fabric into pleats. Affix rope, fringe or cording to an ordinary throw pillow or gathered slipcover skirt. Synonyms pleat, shirr, pucker, tuck, fold, corrugate, ruffle, crimp, crease, scrunch up noun ˈɡaðəˈɡæðər gathers A part of a garment that is gathered. 织物的打褶裥处 Example sentencesExamples In their Seam Displacement series, by applying an extraordinary cutting and tailoring technique, students were able to displace seams, pleats and gathers for a new look. The soleplate comes to a point, making it easy to iron button bands and gathers. It ripples and furrows, drips in long trails, gathers in gritty, crusty patches. This is how pattern drafters take a bust dart from the basic design and move it to the shoulder, then replace it with gathers rather than a dart. This full-length jersey has a double shoulder/yoke with full-cut sleeves and underarm gusset, plus elastic ribbed gathers on edges of sleeves. Ruffles, lace, pin tucks, gathers, folkloric embroidery or lettuce leaf edging are the perfect accent to more classic silhouettes or a pair of well-worn jeans. Buy a runner that is approximately 1 1/2 times the width of your window; the extra width will allow for soft, gentle gathers. Pear shaped women tend to have bigger bottoms so choose garments that have easing at the waistline with soft pleats and gathers. For evening, the collection is a procession of gathers, plunging necklines and backs, irregular lines. This can be accomplished at side seams, the center back seam, gathers, pleats, darts or a combination of the above. The prismatic oil-stick scrawls are applied in intricate gathers, loose skeins and impenetrable tangles. Small tucks or soft gathers can accomplish the same thing. The garments would have soft volume with gathers, frills, layers and plenty of patterns, reads the forecast. Phrases gather way (of a ship) begin to move. （船）开始移动，加速 slowly the two tugs gathered way Example sentencesExamples The boat slows, stops, and if the lever isn't pushed into neutral, she'll gather way astern. Shortly afterwards she began to move down the bank, bumped, gathered way and then bumped very heavily. Then with a casual twist she pirouetted and now bows-on to the scene of impending carnage, quietly, almost innocently, began to gather way once more. Gradually the two battleships gathered way and proceeded to head down the river abreast of each other. The moment the engine is speeded up the clutch comes in, backward movement is checked and the car gathers way up the hill. The U-boat then gathered way and disappeared into the darkness. It bellied in the wind, and the dark wave hissed loud at the keel, as she gathered way over the water. At one time just before she commenced to gather way and draw off we were no more than a hundred yards from that towering cliff of ice which it looked as if our yardarms were going to touch. She gathered way quickly, went about like clockwork and stopped when the need arose as if she had power braking. If the Alps were strongly manned, the movement for independence would gather way and the Gallic provinces decide the limits of their dominion at will. Derivatives gatherer noun ˈɡaðərəˈɡæð(ə)rər Legislation to curtail the development of these technologies and their use and abuse by intelligence gatherers would only succeed in pushing the activity further out of view. Example sentencesExamples ‘These people are actually paid and trained semi-professional evidence gatherers, and they are not police officers,’ he said. ‘We've already lined up squads of volunteer signature gatherers,’ she says mischievously. For much of the 200,000 or so years prior to agriculture, humans lived as nomadic hunters, gatherers and scavengers - surviving solely on wild plants and animals. They were once masters of these forests - hunters and gatherers - who depended on the vegetation for their livelihood. Origin Old English gaderian, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch gaderen, also to together. good from Old English: The ancient root of good probably meant ‘to bring together, unite’ which was also the source of gather (Old English). In 1957 British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan said, ‘Let us be frank about it: most of our people have never had it so good’. ‘You Never Had It So Good’ was the US Democratic Party slogan during the 1952 election campaign. Also in 1952, Kentucky Fried Chicken opened its first outlet, and for many years its slogan has been ‘It's finger-lickin' good’. Good Friday, the Friday before Easter Day, on which Christ was crucified, uses good in the old sense ‘observed as holy’. Our word goodbye (late 16th century) is actually a shortened form of the phrase God be with you. In time good replaced God, in line with phrases such as good morning and goodnight. Sweets and cakes have been goodies since the mid 18th century, and the childish exclamation goody is first recorded not much later. Goody goody gumdrops was the catchphrase of Humphrey Lestocq, the host of the British children's TV show Whirligig in the 1950s. Rhymes blather, foregather, slather verb.1 phr. Definition of gather in US English: gather verbˈɡæðərˈɡaT͟Hər 1no object Come together; assemble or accumulate. 集合；聚集，累积 a crowd gathered in the square Example sentencesExamples Philip's statement brought a ripple of laughter from the crowd of assembled contestants gathered around the archery range. He said that when he arrived on the scene at 2.46 pm a crowd of youths had gathered around the southern edge of the lagoon, off Northfield Lane. And again, she told herself that as she entered the party and viewed the crowd of fans gathered around him. It seems that a crowd of them had gathered around the quarrelling demonstrators, while the British cops attempted to keep the two sides apart. The grocery shop was next door to the sweet shop and when I got there I saw a crowd of children gathered around a television camera and some photographers. A crowd of 300 demonstrators gathered around the jail, hurling firebombs, rockets and stones at the patrol. Many in a strong crowd, who had gathered around the screens, were heard to remark it was all about politics rather than singing and the song. Crowds also gathered around a television where footage of the annual school drills from the 1960s was being shown. And judging from the crowds gathered around the trophy and the queues looping around the Brunel Plaza, the tour looks to be on target for success. Nearby, anxious crowds gathered around lists of injured posted on the walls of the hospital buildings. From atop a tree-house, the big picture of a man with a white flowing beard gazed down on a merry crowd gathered around a huge cake. Mike looked around at the assemblage gathered around him. I still remember a lover's quarrel last February when I'd walked desolately along Madison Avenue, only to come across a small crowd gathered around the store. As we stood there conversing in this manner, a crowd gathered around to listen. A lot of young girls had experienced terrible intimidation by the crowds gathered around the shop in the past. A big crowd gathered around the freshly painted Red Cross Centre to join in the celebrations of the new facilities to the region. A crowd gathered around one of the burned-out cars. The sporting entertainment kicked off early in the day as crowds gathered around large TV screens to watch the World Cup final. A crowd had gathered around one of the cottages in the town square. Large crowds have gathered around him, and he begins to teach them. Synonyms congregate, convene, assemble, meet, collect, come together, get together, muster, rally, converge 2with object Bring together and take in from scattered places or sources. 收集，采集，搜集 we have gathered the information Example sentencesExamples The former is deathmatch with the expected setting choices, while the latter is a competition to gather items scattered around the maps. A compiled fist is data gathered from third-party public sources, such as government records, newspapers and directories. All the information used for the article was gathered from public sources. The main sources used to gather information were as follows. Nevertheless here, and in the Source book, material previously scattered in archives is gathered together and ordered. I gathered a crew and brought in reinforcements from Brooklyn. We've gathered information from many sources and organized it to provide complete yet understandable information on decisions you now face. ‘For the fifth task, you must gather both flags and bring them back here,’ said Bradley. He scoured medical textbooks and science web sites to gather information on the sources of many human illnesses. Earlier literature was gathered from non-electronic sources by the authors. Stars are not scattered randomly through space, they are gathered together into vast groups known as galaxies. I gathered the information from books and other sources and created the pages. Student editors spend an enormous amount of time gathering every source cited by the author, then checking each one to make sure it supports what the author is saying. We've gathered reports from sources we trust - and we plan to add more. The growth of the internet has made it so easy for people both to gather information from diverse sources and to disseminate information to diverse recipients. He gathers information from a variety of sources such as newspapers, trade journals, and books on the latest topics and trends. Many of the Christian themes scattered throughout his writings are here gathered together. All information contained herein is gathered from sources we believe to be reliable. I tried to gather the suddenly scattered memories of court etiquette that had been drilled into me since I understood the concept of courtesy. Journalists will protect their confidential sources and will try to gather information with honest and legal means and will not conceal their occupation. Synonyms collect, get together, put together, accumulate, amass, assemble, garner 2.1 Pick up from the ground or a surface. （从地上或平面上）拣起，拾起 they gathered up the dirty plates and cups Example sentencesExamples All scraps and sawdust should be gathered up and disposed of properly off-site. He snapped a few pictures, gathered up the pipes, and returned home. I gathered my things, brought them out, put them in my notebook, and put it in the filing cabinet. As soon as she reached the Nurse's Station, she gathered up her things and slung her purse over her shoulder, accidentally knocking over a coat stand by the exit. For years thereafter, the comic book would dutifully be gathered up every evening and locked in a safe. I gathered up a dozen and dropped them on the floor of the forest, far away from our reckless river, at a spot where the sun was shining through. Vaguely recognising a cup of coffee and a slice of cake, I gathered them up clumsily and joined the queue towards the cash-register. I had to gather it up and wash and bleach it to get the muddy paw prints out of the sheets. She gathered up her things and hurried after him. She gathered up a rusty shovel and a pair of rakes and leaned them against a corner. The place is secluded and beautiful and, as I gathered up some of the golf balls that we'd scattered, her dad and her brother zoomed off on their motorcycles. They gathered up the sheet they put on the ground and shoved it into the bundle they carried with them. He gathered up the cards, shuffled them, and re-dealt. My grandmother was not sure who might have gathered up the poet's clothes. She gathered up her pictures and tucked them in the pink notebook. He gathered up some snow, creating a small hill. He gathered the paper scattered across the desk into a pile, and added it to the heap on the floor, frowning deeply. We scattered the fire and gathered all of our things. Instead, Maya's world continued to crumble as she bent down to gather the hay scattered around, refusing to look at the couple now. We gathered the cat back up and walked back to its apartment. Muttering a curse, she put the other two boxes down before starting to gather the papers scattered all around the hallway and into the living room. Charlotte reluctantly obeyed her Aunt as they gathered up her belongings, one by one, and packed them into suitcases and bags for the trip to North Carolina. She shrugged and gathered up the dirty instruments from my tray. 2.2 Collect (grain or other crops) as a harvest. 收割（庄稼） Example sentencesExamples To most Pagans Samhain is a sacred day - a time when the last harvests are gathered in before winter's arrival, and the time when family members who have passed away are remembered and honored. The abundance of apple sellers, though, harks back to the old days when all the crops would be gathered in and no fruit picked after this date for the puca, a supernatural being, would be busy spoiling unpicked fruit at Halloween. August to November heralds another period of fair weather, when the harvest is gathered in. Synonyms collect, get together, put together, accumulate, amass, assemble, garner 2.3 Collect plants, fruits, etc., for food. 采摘植物或水果等（作为食物） Example sentencesExamples Sixteen Irish people would be brought to an uninhabited island in the South Pacific and left there to survive on the food they could gather or kill for themselves. Because they need a lot of food, especially when the days shorten and sustenance becomes scarce, chickadees spend all autumn gathering and storing food. After collecting several branches of large red berries, he gathered as many wedge fruit as he could carry from the nearby tree and walked back to their spot on the grass. Life inside the reserve is harsh, as the Bushmen are banned from hunting, gathering and collecting firewood. Expect to see more extreme food gathering from these boys in future episodes. Who will feed those kids if they go to school and their parents are working in the dingiest of atmospheres to gather barely enough food to feed themselves? This led to the creation of tools to aid them in their activities such as hunting and food gathering. Apples and pears, when lying on the ground, could be gathered up as public fruit. I even threw some tortilla chips on the ground, and the jays gathered up the chips as rapidly as they did the peanuts. Based on situational requirements these handguns can be used for food gathering, and in some instances, defense against dangerous wild animals. For example, bereaved relatives were not allowed to participate in food gathering until someone fed them the first wild rice or maple sugar of the season. Women performed extensive plant gathering, including a wide variety of roots, berries, and seeds. After two quick rounds of food gathering, the students learn about the variety of animal species that live underground and glean insight into their fragile cave habitat. The basic economy of hunting, fishing, and food gathering, and the settlement pattern that focused on lake margins and river valley locations, remained unchanged. Following a difficult voyage, the sailors enjoyed some months on Tahiti gathering and cultivating breadfruit plants. In some areas of low population density hunting of wild pigs predominates, along with food gathering, hunting and collection of wild plants and animals. Botanical knowledge is (and would have been in prehistory) greatest among the women who gather, collect, harvest, and process plant resources. It has changed from necessary food gathering to commercial harvest by way of eel traps. The summer months were the time when the villagers would collectively gather, grow and store firewood and food to help tide the long winter months. The diet of Inuit hunters in the Arctic is composed almost entirely of meat and fish, but most hunter-gatherers in other parts of the world obtain more food from gathering plants than from hunting animals. Synonyms harvest, collect, reap, pick, pluck, garner, crop, glean 2.4 Draw together or toward oneself. 把…拉在一起，把…拉向自己 she gathered the child in her arms Example sentencesExamples Then we'd stopped and Wilson had gathered me into his arms, pulling me onto his lap as he claimed a swing. I gathered up my little ones with just the clothes we were wearing and left for good, not looking back and not knowing our destiny. He stretches over her onto his side of the bed and slides into it, pulling the covers up and gathering her into his arms. The two embrace and gather the child between them. In the next instant I felt him pulling me to him, gathering me into his arms. She reached out for him, with both hands outstretched, and he responded by standing, and gently pulling her to her feet, and gathering her into his arms. He smiled at her and then gathered her into an embrace holding her tightly with his muscular arms. He gathered me up into his arms and pulled me close into him. Synonyms clasp, clutch, take, pull, embrace, enfold, hold, hug, cuddle, squeeze 3with object Develop a higher degree of. 增加，积聚 the green movement is gathering pace 绿色行动正在加快步伐。 Example sentencesExamples The desire for speed gathered momentum in the twentieth century as America's strategic obligations broadened across the globe. The quest to find one of Croydon's best known independent stores a new home gathered pace this week. When bad times hit, they lose faith, and, instead of giving a new product time to gather speed, they force it into a seemingly more certain, established market. To do so would be a mistake, for the novel gathers force and what appears to be a woolly, romantic start turns out to be necessary and crafted. Until our campaign gathers speed - and we'd imagine we're in for a pretty long wait - we have an archery game for you to play today. He gathered speed and hovered near the largest group of battling soldiers. One of Australia's most influential union leaders has called for the top income tax rate to be slashed to 30 cents in the dollar as the push for widespread tax reform gathers pace. The first section can be a bit slow and plodding but once the book gathers steam the second and third sections shine like well burnished steel rails. The whirlwind romance took a little time to gather speed - just a quarter of a century. Moving under its own weight, the trolley gathered speed up to 40 mph and would have reached the men on the track at Tebay in minutes. Inspired by prohibition in the US, his campaign soon gathered momentum and the Alliance became a political force to be reckoned with. As Burt feared, the snowball started to roll and it was gathering pace. I braced myself as we sped up the hard shoulder for what seemed like an eternity before we'd gathered enough speed to join the motorway. After a somewhat awkward first 15 min, the film gathers its pace and form, touching greatness on many levels, not least the performances and camera use. Developments off O'Connell Street are also gathering pace. The battle for a second doctors' surgery in Westbury gathered pace this week, with residents being urged to take the fight to their local MP. The battle to secure a household recycling centre for Westbury gathered pace this week as senior councillors were urged to back the plan. The result of these forces gathering momentum in the coming fight over policy, he says, will be an historic clash with massive implications for the coming decades. The prog rock revival gathered pace last year when they toured Europe, South America and South East Asia. Smoke twisted from the jaws of the stack, the big wheel turned, slowly at first, gathering momentum and speed. If you set a snowball off down a hill it will gather speed and momentum and that's what's happened here. Then it gathered speed and fell with an enormous crash. As the biotech and digital revolutions gather pace, so the cost of their primary product, knowledge, grows at an exponential rate. The effect of compounding is often used to show how much a relatively small investment can grow into a surprisingly large sum as the benefit of receiving interest on interest gathers pace over the years. By the mid-1990s, a new strategy began to gather force. The feminist movement of the 1980s was really gathering pace. Manchester has pledged to blast away the menace of graffiti ‘once and for all’ as its 100-day clean-up gathers pace. As we gathered speed out of Mazatlan, the empty window frames offered a cooling breeze through the stuffy carriage, and I started to take stock of the characters travelling around us. The result was the first in a series of ‘restructurings’ which would gather pace in the 1980s. As my steep decline into grumpy old manhood gathers pace, I realise I no longer know how to manage even the simplest of contemporary transactions. Colliding with shorter broken lines along the way, each element seems to gather energy and speed in a display of centrifugal force. It couldn't come at a better time for us, as our improvement programme gathers pace. After pitching the ball gathered tremendous pace. The club directly above them is gathering a worrying degree of momentum. It appeared to gather speed and then veered off to her right and out of her view. As this change gathers pace, many clubs - a legacy of the city's proud working-class past - are in trouble. As the glacier gathers speed on the steeper sides of the mountain, it contorts and breaks, forming gnarled canyons and crevices of blue ice which are both beautiful and lethal. There were lots of reasons which gathered speed over the years but I still love him. Slowly at first but then gathering pace the 4,100 tonne warship began to sink. The inter-county hurling and football championships have been gathering pace this past few weeks. Marie gets out her map as the train gathers speed toward Elephant and Castle. 4with object Infer; understand. 推断，猜测；以为 her clients were, I gathered, a prosperous group Example sentencesExamples You will have gathered by now that it would be an understatement to say he is no admirer of his subject. The director, one gathers, wants a Paris Commune purified of all its difficult and perhaps unpleasant associations, a kind of utopian model to hold out to today's radical protesters. One gathers from their questions that this was a rare encounter. Indeed, the genre blurring of the title is intended, one gathers, to apply not only to Manet and Flaubert but also to Reed's own text. Synonyms understand, be given to understand, believe, be led to believe, think, conclude, come to the conclusion, deduce, infer, draw the inference, assume, surmise, fancy 5with object Summon up (a mental or physical attribute such as one's thoughts or strength) for a purpose. （出于某种目的）集中（思想）；积聚（体力） he lay gathering his thoughts together 他躺在那儿整理思绪。 he gathered himself for a tremendous leap 他用力向前跳了一大步。 Example sentencesExamples She could hear then breathing and gathering their courage. She gathered herself up and took a good look around. He gathered himself up and tried to perform first aid. Feeling utterly stupid I gathered myself up from under the rubble and hobbled inelegantly to find a first aider. Brian stopped at the red light, and gathered himself. Somehow, they gathered themselves to beat Limerick in the first round of the qualifiers but the core discontent hadn't been addressed. For years he had longed for his friendship with this woman to become something more, and having recently gathered up the nerve to court her, his wishes had been granted. That was when she gathered her senses and noticed the mosaic floor beneath her. I chuckled, but finally gathered myself and stopped laughing. In search of some peace, I gathered myself out of bed. When they've gathered themselves within striking range, we're dead. He stared for a moment, gathered himself mentally, and bowed his head. He blinked a few times before he gathered himself. That barren garden: where, presumably, he soon woke, wounded, worried, gathering himself together, and vowed never to return. John gathered himself up, trying to look important. Thankfully that was not the case as the lads once again gathered themselves and shot two late points to secure that all-important victory. But they gathered themselves and came good at the last. He gathered himself up with as much dignity as he could muster before glaring at me. Still, after a certain number of blows, I managed to gather myself to the degree that I knew what to do, which was to run. Finally, I gathered my courage and brought my gaze up to look at him. Synonyms summon, summon up, call together, bring together, assemble, convene, rally, round up 6with object Draw and hold together (fabric or a part of a garment) by running thread through it. 用针线（将织物或衣服的一部分）打褶裥 the front is gathered at the waist 前面在腰部打褶。 Example sentencesExamples Affix rope, fringe or cording to an ordinary throw pillow or gathered slipcover skirt. Jersey and stretch linen are gathered faintly reminiscent of ancient Greece, yet wrapped around the body in hourglass silhouettes. Pull up the threads to gather the fabric into pleats. The cami tied around my neck and scooped in the back, with some ruffly parts down the middle of the back (not overblown ruffles, just gathered fabric). The fabric is gathered at the waist with a belt which is tied at the side. Pull the basting bobbin threads to gather the skirt. The dress was a pale lime green, it had a wasp waist and the skirt was gathered the tiniest bit to give it some twirl. Synonyms pleat, shirr, pucker, tuck, fold, corrugate, ruffle, crimp, crease, scrunch up nounˈɡæðərˈɡaT͟Hər gathers A part of a garment that is gathered or drawn in. 织物的打褶裥处 Example sentencesExamples Small tucks or soft gathers can accomplish the same thing. The soleplate comes to a point, making it easy to iron button bands and gathers. This can be accomplished at side seams, the center back seam, gathers, pleats, darts or a combination of the above. Ruffles, lace, pin tucks, gathers, folkloric embroidery or lettuce leaf edging are the perfect accent to more classic silhouettes or a pair of well-worn jeans. Buy a runner that is approximately 1 1/2 times the width of your window; the extra width will allow for soft, gentle gathers. In their Seam Displacement series, by applying an extraordinary cutting and tailoring technique, students were able to displace seams, pleats and gathers for a new look. The garments would have soft volume with gathers, frills, layers and plenty of patterns, reads the forecast. This full-length jersey has a double shoulder/yoke with full-cut sleeves and underarm gusset, plus elastic ribbed gathers on edges of sleeves. Pear shaped women tend to have bigger bottoms so choose garments that have easing at the waistline with soft pleats and gathers. This is how pattern drafters take a bust dart from the basic design and move it to the shoulder, then replace it with gathers rather than a dart. It ripples and furrows, drips in long trails, gathers in gritty, crusty patches. The prismatic oil-stick scrawls are applied in intricate gathers, loose skeins and impenetrable tangles. For evening, the collection is a procession of gathers, plunging necklines and backs, irregular lines. Phrases gather way (of a ship) begin to move. （船）开始移动，加速 Example sentencesExamples The moment the engine is speeded up the clutch comes in, backward movement is checked and the car gathers way up the hill. The U-boat then gathered way and disappeared into the darkness. Gradually the two battleships gathered way and proceeded to head down the river abreast of each other. Then with a casual twist she pirouetted and now bows-on to the scene of impending carnage, quietly, almost innocently, began to gather way once more. If the Alps were strongly manned, the movement for independence would gather way and the Gallic provinces decide the limits of their dominion at will. She gathered way quickly, went about like clockwork and stopped when the need arose as if she had power braking. Shortly afterwards she began to move down the bank, bumped, gathered way and then bumped very heavily. At one time just before she commenced to gather way and draw off we were no more than a hundred yards from that towering cliff of ice which it looked as if our yardarms were going to touch. The boat slows, stops, and if the lever isn't pushed into neutral, she'll gather way astern. It bellied in the wind, and the dark wave hissed loud at the keel, as she gathered way over the water. Origin Old English gaderian, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch gaderen, also to together. verb.1 phr.
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