发音：[əˈmas]
例句：
- When you amass something, you collect or accumulate things together.
- I took the magazine home and there told my mother that someday I would amass tons of money and build her a house similar to the ones in the magazine.
- The wealth amassed by the plantation owners gave Maryland’s colonialists prominent standing in early American politics.
- In the 1990s, she started compiling evidence to show how 17 companies had amassed wealth from slavery, such as the insurance firm Lloyd’s of London.
- In the first half of the nineteenth century, owners of whaling ships amassed fortunes from oil and built the still well-preserved Federalist and Greek Revival mansions on upper Main Street.
解释：
- Amass这个单词做动词使用，其表示“collect or accumulate things”这一含义，即“积累/把东西聚集在一起”，与accumulate/collect构成近义词。
- 具体使用场景如下：
- Elon Musk amasses a great amount of fortune.(马斯克积累了大量的财富。）
–News - She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis. （她正在为自己的论文收集/积累信息。）
–News - Dark clouds amassed over the city.（乌云在天空中越积越厚。）
–News - During my first twenty or so years in prison, I accumulated very few possessions, but in the last few years I had amassed enough property — mainly books and papers — to make up for previous decades.（在我入狱的头二十几年里，我积累的财产很少，但在过去的几年里，我积累了足够的财产—主要是书籍和文件—来弥补前几十年的开支。）
–Arts - Brazilian football superstar Kaka was the first athlete to amass 10 million followers on Twitter, joining an elite group of online influencers.（巴西足球巨星卡卡是第一位在Twitter上积累1000万粉丝的运动员，加入了一个由在线影响者组成的精英群体。）
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