collect: [16] Collect comes via French collecter or medieval Latin collēctāre from collēct-, the past participial stem of Latin colligere ‘gather together’, a compound verb formed from com- ‘together’ and legere ‘gather’ (source also of English elect, neglect, and select and, from its secondary meaning ‘read’, lecture and legible).
The specialized noun use of collect, ‘short prayer’, pronounced with its main stress on the first syllable, antedates the verb in English, having arrived via Old French in the 13th century. It comes from late Latin collēcta ‘assembly’, a nominalization of the past participle of colligere, which was used in medieval times in the phrase ōrātiō ad collēctam ‘prayer to the congregation’. Collect comes from the past participle of Latin colligere, but its infinitive form is the source of English coil and cull. => coil, cull, elect, lecture, legible, ligneous, neglect, select
collect (v.)
early 15c. (transitive), from Old French collecter "to collect" (late 14c.), from Latin collectus, past participle of colligere "gather together," from com- "together" (see com-) + legere "to gather" (see lecture (n.)). The intransitive sense is attested from 1794. Related: Collected; collecting. As an adjective meaning "paid by the recipient" it is attested from 1893, originally with reference to telegrams.
雙語例句
1. Methane gas does collect in the mines around here.
周圍的礦井里的確有沼氣聚積。
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2. He was grateful for a chance to relax and collect his thoughts.
他很慶幸有機會放松放松，整理一下自己的思緒。
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3. Like a telescope it has a curved mirror to collect the sunlight.
和望遠鏡一樣，它有一個曲面鏡可以積聚陽光。
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4. It's amazing how people collect so much stuff over the years.
人們竟然日積月累地收集了這么多東西，真令人驚嘆。
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5. Should you lose your ticket call collect on STA's helpline.