2010년 3월 22일 월요일

Dic: gather (find something in an indirect way)

  • I gather his report is highly critical of the trial judge.
  • ‘He speaks English,’ she said to Graham. ‘I gathered that.’
  • From what I could gather, he was trying to raise money by organising festivals.
VERB | You use gather in expressions such as ‘I gather’ and ‘as far as I can gather’ to introduce information that you have found out, especially when you have found it out in an indirect way.
.... Cobuild

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