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accumulate English

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accumulate

If you accumulate something, you bring it together. He worried that the paperwork would accumulate on his desk if he took a day off work. By saving small amounts of money each week, he watched his wealth accumulate over the years.

accumulate

(= pile up, gather) collect or gather Journals are accumulating in my office The work keeps piling up (= roll up, amass) get or gather together I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis She rolled up a small fortune

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Simple sentences

He tried to accumulate wealth.
We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.
One of the things we should learn from Americans is their ability to gather, accumulate, and impart knowledge.
Dentists recommend to change toothbrushes every three months, because over time their bristles become worse at getting rid of plague, as well as accumulate microbes.

Movie subtitles

We do not buy or sell or seek personal fortunes because there is no uncertain future here for which to accumulate it.
Accumulate a nest egg and so on.
They accumulate millions by taking loss after loss.
None of this money is allowed to accumulate at any point on the track.
I'll never accumulate any cigarettes.
My dear girl, the one purpose in growing old is to accumulate knowledge and wisdom.
It is not enough to accumulate the dead one must know how to honor them.
The energy of life which we accumulate we store in vats such as these.
Well, we accumulate things.
I just don't want anybody else to grab something that took me years to accumulate.
However, the capitalist class who just accumulate money in the banks and command young people to go to war, to death.
As time goes by, we accumulate things without realizing, until the day. Follow me, Drogo.
Their goal is to accumulate great personal wealth, But that can only be achieved by injury to others.
Well, if you rotate to the west, you gain yesterdays. To the east, you accumulate tomorrows.
Accumulate a nest egg and so on. - Why?
Over the years, I've managed to accumulate something of a treasure. and the responsibilities that go with it.
When such small outrages accumulate, great revolutions are born. 150 francs.
That's one of the signs of underdevelopment: the inability to relate things, to accumulate experience and to develop.
Wanna accumulate some experiences?
I have managed to accumulate a little stash of wine.
I'll need to demonstrate my technique in more acceptable ways in order to accumulate the proper data.
That breakwater alone could cause the tidal flow to stagnate, pollutants to accumulate.
Now, you see, Bud, when a woman sleeps her hormones accumulate, which means that when she wakes up she falls in love with the first man that she sees.
You young yet. They accumulate.
Particles will accumulate in their dilithium chamber.
Abandon all remorse, on horror's head horrors accumulate do deeds to make heaven weep, all earth amazed for nothing canst thou to damnation add greater than that.
IF YOU ROTATE TO THE WEST, YOU GAIN YESTERDAYS, TO THE EAST, YOU ACCUMULATE TOMORROWS.
So the telescope would be pointed at a nearby bright star and then offset to a featureless patch of sky from which, over the long night the light from the unseen galaxy would slowly accumulate.
As the murmurs from the edge of the cosmos slowly accumulate our understanding grows.
The remains of the stars accumulate as the eons pass.
But I get to accumulate air time.
It may not be proper to say this. after all you've done, but. human beings accumulate so many things during their life.
You accumulate it without anyone noticing.
Well, the whole point ofjoining is for the symbiont to accumulate experiences from the span of many lifetimes.
We must accumulate all the paper we can about her.
The thing is, Mand, you have to speculate to accumulate, in business.

News and current affairs

As time passes, deficits accumulate.
As deficits accumulate, the cost of servicing the net international asset position grows.
After all, why should the central banks of China, Japan, South Korea, and other Asian countries accumulate vast holdings of US Treasury bills if the dollar is likely to lose value in the years ahead?
But it would at least head off one danger, namely the urge to accumulate even more reserves.
CAMBRIDGE - When will China finally realize that it cannot accumulate dollars forever?
With its huge domestic economy, China would never have been able to accumulate such an enormous external surplus if its growth had not been confined to such enterprises.
It forced China to accumulate huge amounts of dollars to stabilize its currency and gave the euro an extra boost as the dollar depreciated.
China must exercise the foresight needed to begin paying this debt now, when it is manageable, rather than allowing it to accumulate and, ultimately, threaten to bankrupt us all.
That might be true, but stronger domestic demand would lead to higher imports, which would need to be paid for with higher export revenues, because the country cannot afford to accumulate more foreign debt.
Must countries produce fewer children if they want to accumulate more wealth?
Politics complicates matters further, because the exclusively short-term focus on the fiscal impact of spending and revenues clashes with policies whose benefits accumulate over time.
After all, the program would boost significantly the interest-rate spread between Maastricht-compliant debt and the debt that remains in the member states' hands (which they previously were not permitted to accumulate).
When they are negligible, they flatter profit statements, while balance-sheet problems slowly accumulate.
But Germany did not accumulate foreign reserves the way that China did.
Yes, China continues to accumulate a vast fund of foreign-exchange reserves.
If farmers can be helped to obtain simple technologies, income can rise, and they can accumulate bank balances and collateral.
Instead of looking for changes in genes that take many generations to accumulate until they can be detected, we have measured natural selection directly.
But, while the effects of biology on the traits that we measured are relatively small for humans living in complex modern cultures, even small effects, when repeated consistently, will accumulate.
But surely there can be a balance between Second Amendment rights and rational constraints on the ability of mentally unstable people to accumulate arsenals.
By using gene-splicing techniques to introduce the two genes that express these enzymes, the pathway is restored and the rice grains accumulate therapeutic amounts of beta-carotene.
Countries seeking additional reserves will not be forced to accumulate only - or even mainly - dollars.
One of the most daunting challenges for poor countries is the need to accumulate investment capital under conditions of low savings without incurring too much foreign debt.
If speculation were really the cause, they argue, there should be an increase in oil inventories, because higher prices would reduce consumption, forcing speculators to accumulate oil.
At the same time, emerging-market central banks need to accumulate gold reserves, which they still hold in far lower proportion than do rich-country central banks.
First, they must accumulate capital, which implies a high savings rate that will help pay for new machines, equipment, and infrastructure.
Why, for example, did China's decision to accumulate foreign reserves result in a mortgage lender in Ohio taking excessive risks?

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