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单词 re-collect
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Definition of re-collect in US English:

re-collect

verbˌrēkəˈlektˌrēkəˈlekt
[with object]
  • Collect or gather again.

    after re-collecting our apples for the second time, Bruno brought us a couple of nice sturdy sacks
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Much of this material could never be re-collected because it has come from members of seed-collection organizations who have since passed away and from areas in countries that are now involved in civil strife.
    • Forty-five species represented by herbarium specimens or reported in the literature as occurring in Pike County were not re-collected during this study.
    • It had been put there by Roman collectors, to them already up to 600 years old, then re-collected by a rich Dane 2,000 years later.
    • When I took the still-broken appliances back and the owners didn't want them I re-collected them to keep in my room.
    • But he has focused on his Vietnam years almost exclusively, and waved his thrown and apparently re-collected medals around like a magic talisman to ward off all criticisms.
    • Only avant-garde practice that turns its back against the established collections of good taste can take up and re-collect the discarded.
    • In the short run, it is neither possible nor necessary to re-collect most of the fossil record.
    • The marine animals that we're interested in are those that are stationary and occur on the sea-bed, so that we have a good possibility of being able to go back and re-collect more if we need to.

Origin

Early 17th century: later form of recollect1, from re- 'once more' + the verb collect1.

 
 

Definition of re-collect in US English:

re-collect

verbˌrēkəˈlekt
[with object]
  • Collect or gather again.

    after re-collecting our apples for the second time, Bruno brought us a couple of nice sturdy sacks
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Only avant-garde practice that turns its back against the established collections of good taste can take up and re-collect the discarded.
    • The marine animals that we're interested in are those that are stationary and occur on the sea-bed, so that we have a good possibility of being able to go back and re-collect more if we need to.
    • Forty-five species represented by herbarium specimens or reported in the literature as occurring in Pike County were not re-collected during this study.
    • It had been put there by Roman collectors, to them already up to 600 years old, then re-collected by a rich Dane 2,000 years later.
    • When I took the still-broken appliances back and the owners didn't want them I re-collected them to keep in my room.
    • Much of this material could never be re-collected because it has come from members of seed-collection organizations who have since passed away and from areas in countries that are now involved in civil strife.
    • In the short run, it is neither possible nor necessary to re-collect most of the fossil record.
    • But he has focused on his Vietnam years almost exclusively, and waved his thrown and apparently re-collected medals around like a magic talisman to ward off all criticisms.

Origin

Early 17th century: later form of recollect, from re- ‘once more’ + the verb collect.

 
 
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