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单词 garner
释义 gar·ner
I. \ˈgärnər, ˈgȧnə(r\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English garner, gerner, from Old French gernier, grenier, from Latin granarium, from granum grain + -arium -ary — more at corn
1.
 a. : a building in which grain is stored : granary
 b. : a bin for the storage of grain; specifically : a bin in a grain elevator in which grain is collected for weighing
 c. : something that resembles a garner
  < you may be gathered into the garner of mortality before me — Sir Walter Scott >
2. : something that is collected : accumulation
 < makes an entirely fresh garner each year — Donald Davidson >
II. verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: Middle English garneren, from garner, n.
transitive verb
1.
 a. : to gather into a granary : store
  < the new crop was not yet garnered and the last year's grain was getting low — Willa Cather >
 b. : to deposit as if in a granary
  < volumes in which he has garnered the fruits of his lifetime labors — Reinhold Niebuhr >
2.
 a. : to acquire as the result of effort : earn, reap
  < garner financial support from business circles — W.J.Jorden >
  < garners publicity by floating through the air from a flying trapeze beneath a helicopter — Newsweek >
 b. : to pick up : accumulate, collect
  < garnered the spoils with an all-encompassing rake — Sidney Warren >
  < garnered a fine array of folk songs — Julian Dana >
intransitive verb
: to become stored : accumulate
 < wrath that garners in my heart — Alfred Tennyson >
Synonyms: see reap
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