| 单词 | harvest |
| 释义 | harvest (once / 291 pages) nv The harvest is the time when you reap what you sow. As a verb, to harvest something means that you pick or gather it. You might harvest your sweet corn late in the summer. As a noun, harvest means the time of year when crops are ripe and ready to be gathered. The picked crop is also called a harvest: a bumper crop is a plentiful harvest, and a poor harvest is when things didn’t grow as well as expected. As a verb, to harvest something is to gather, trap, or cull it. You can harvest a soybean crop, you can harvest beaver pelts, or you can harvest tissues or organs for transplants. WORD FAMILYharvest: harvested, harvester, harvesting, harvests+/harvester: harvesters/harvesting: harvestings USAGE EXAMPLESThe Fiji government imposed a temporary ban on turtle harvesting in 1995 to halt the decline. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) Then there’s the matter of illegally harvested and traded specimens. The New Yorker(Jan 02, 2017) They were probably planted in the ‘60s to be harvested later, Petree said. “They are past maturity and starting to decline,” he said. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1n the gathering of a ripened crop Syn|Hypo|Hyper harvest home, harvesting haying the harvesting of hay gather, gathering the act of gathering something 2n the yield from plants in a single growing season Syn|Hypo|Hyper crop fruitage the yield of fruit output, yield production of a certain amount 3n the season for gathering crops Syn|Hyper harvest time season, time of year one of the natural periods into which the year is divided by the equinoxes and solstices or atmospheric conditions 4n the consequence of an effort or activity they gathered a harvest of examples a harvest of love Hyper consequence, effect, event, issue, outcome, result, upshot a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon 5v gather, as of natural products harvest the grapes Syn|Hypo|Hyper glean, reap cut reap or harvest collect, garner, gather, pull together assemble or get together 6v remove from a culture or a living or dead body, as for the purposes of transplantation The Chinese are said to harvest organs from executed criminals Hyper remove, take, take away, withdraw remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract |
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