核心畫面
Scattered things being drawn in toward one place and growing into a single mass — people coming together into a crowd, bits being collected into a pile, even folds of cloth pulled into one bunch. Wherever something spreads out gets pulled inward and builds up, that's gather.
可以把 gather 的核心想成『把散開的東西往一處收攏，越聚越多、聚成一團』。本來四散的人收攏成一群、零碎的東西收…更多收起
可以把 gather 的核心想成『把散開的東西往一處收攏，越聚越多、聚成一團』。本來四散的人收攏成一群、零碎的東西收攏成一堆、攤開的布料抓攏成一束——只要是『分散→往中間聚→越積越多』這個動作，就是 gather。原始詞典資料19 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。
gatherverb/ˈɡæðə/
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To collect normally separate things.
- I've been gathering ideas from the people I work with.
- She bent down to gather the reluctant cat from beneath the chair.
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To collect normally separate things.
- We went to gather some blackberries from the nearby lane.
- 3
To collect normally separate things.
- Over the years he'd gathered a considerable collection of mugs.
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To collect normally separate things.
- People gathered round as he began to tell his story.
- Tears from the depth of some divine despair / Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, […]
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To collect normally separate things.
- Their snow-ball did not gather as it went.
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To bring parts of a whole closer.
- She gathered the shawl about her as she stepped into the cold.
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businessmanufacturingsewingTo bring parts of a whole closer.
- A gown should be gathered around the top so that it will remain shaped.
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businessknittingmanufacturingTo bring parts of a whole closer.
- Be careful not to stretch or gather your knitting.
- If you want to emphasise the shape, it is possible to gather the waistline.
另外 6 個記錄的用法
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architectureTo bring parts of a whole closer.
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nauticaltransportTo bring parts of a whole closer.
- to gather the slack of a rope
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To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.
- From his silence, I gathered that things had not gone well.
- I gather from Aunty May that you had a good day at the match.
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medicinesciencesTo be filled with pus
- Salt water can help boils to gather and then burst.
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artscraftsglassblowingTo collect molten glass on the end of a tool.
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To gain; to win.
- He gathers ground upon her in the chase.
gathernoun/ˈɡæðə/
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A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
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The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
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businessconstructionmanufacturingThe soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather.
- 4
artscraftsglassblowingA blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe.
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A gathering.
- "I'll tell you all about it at the Gather, win or lose."
- What bothered him more, he thought as he started Washoe southward, was Spikes's animosity, the bearded man's sudden violent reaction to his arrival at the gather.
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。