核心畫面
Picture a pile that grows a little at a time and never gets cleared — dust on a shelf, savings in an account, years of know-how. Accumulate is that slow building up. Nobody adds it all at once; the size comes from time passing while the adding keeps happening.
可以想成：一堆東西一點一點變多，而且從來沒被清掉——架子上的灰塵、戶頭裡的存款、多年下來的經驗。accumulate…更多收起
可以想成：一堆東西一點一點變多，而且從來沒被清掉——架子上的灰塵、戶頭裡的存款、多年下來的經驗。accumulate 就是這種慢慢堆積。沒有人一次把它加到那麼多，量是靠「時間一直過、東西一直加」累出來的。所以這個字裡面一定藏著一段時間。原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
accumulateverb/əˈkjuːmjʊˌleɪt/
- 1
To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together (either literally or figuratively), often gradually and without active intent.
- He wishes to accumulate a sum of money.
- In these stellar pairings, if the two stars are close together, the white dwarf will siphon mass away from its companion and have an outburst called a nova. And when the white dwarf accumulates too much mass, it will collapse and explode in a supernova.
- 2
To gradually grow or increase in quantity or number.
- With her company going bankrupt, her divorce, and a gambling habit, debts started to accumulate so she had to sell her house.
- Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, / Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.
- 3
datededucationTo take a higher degree at the same time with a lower degree, or at a shorter interval than usual.
accumulateadj/əˈkjuːmjʊˌleɪt/
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rareCollected; accumulated.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。