詞彙精選：harvest的用法和辨析
一、詳細釋義：
n.
收穫；收穫季節 [U,C]
例句：
The farmer hired extra work.rs for the harvest.
農人爲收割額外僱了工人。
例句：
This is not the season for harvest.
現在不是收穫的季節。
收成，收穫量 [C]
例句：
The farmer's financial difficulties were caused by a scanty harvest.
這個農民的經濟困難是因爲收成不足造成的。
例句：
It happened that the harvest was bad in 1988.
碰巧一九八八年的收成很糟。
結果；後果；成果 [C]
例句：
It is not easy to reap the harvest of my hard work.
獲得自己辛勤工作的成果是不容易的。
例句：
The new medicine is the harvest of thirty years' research.
這種新藥是三十年研究的成果。
v.
收割；收穫 [I,T]
例句：
Rice farmers here still plant and harvest their crops by hand.
這兒的稻農仍然靠雙手種植和收割莊稼。
例句：
The raspberries were harvested by industrious workers.
辛勤的勞動者收穫了山莓。
獲得，得到 [T]
例句：
Researchers can harvest and grow adult cells in large amounts compared to embryos.
與胚胎相比，研究者能大規模獲得和培養成體細胞。
二、詞義辨析：
crop,harvest,yield
這些名詞均含有“收成”之意。crop普通用詞，側重指農作物一次收割或一季的收成。harvest主要指農作物或水果的收穫量，有時也指收割的行爲。yield指生產物，農作物的總產量。
三、相關短語：
harvest mite
秋蟎
harvest time
收割期
harvest fly
n. 秋蟬, 蟬
harvest home
最後一批作物收割進倉
harvest moon
n. 秋分前後之滿月，收穫月（九月的滿月）
harvest mouse
n. 巢鼠禾鼠
四、參考例句：
Autumn is the harvest season.
秋季是收穫的季節。
Fall is a harvest season.
秋天是一個收穫的季節。
We have a plenteous harvest this year.
我們今年取得了大豐收。
Farmers harvest their crops in fall.
農民秋天收穫莊稼。
After the harvest, the ranches seemed asleep.
收穫期一過農莊就彷彿入睡了。
The summer harvest is about to start.
夏收即將開始。
They had a superabundant harvest last year.
他們去年有特大豐收。
Excessive rainfall had made the harvest impossible.
雨量過多，豐收已經不可能了。
They turned the soil after the harvest.
他們在收穫後翻耕土壤。
Farmers are extremely busy during the harvest.
農民在收穫季節裏十分忙碌。
