1be given STH 得到某物GET to be given something 得到,收到SYN get
All the children will receive a small gift.
每个孩子都会收到一份小礼物。
receive something from somebody
She received an honorary degree from Harvard.
她获得了哈佛大学的荣誉学位。
receive attention/affection/support
She received no support from her parents.
她没有得到父母的支持。
receive payment/money/a pension etc
They will be entitled to receive unemployment benefit.
他们将有资格领取失业救济金。
receive a prize/award/gift etc
He went up to receive his award from the mayor.
他上前接受市长颁奖。
receive education/training
16 to 18-year-olds receiving full-time education
接受全日制教育的16到18岁青少年
Lee received 324 votes (=324 people voted for him).
李得到324票。
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Receive is a rather formal word, which is used especially in written English. In everyday English, people usually use get. receive 是一个较为正式的单词,尤用于英语书面语。在日常英语中,人们一般用 get
What did you get for your birthday?
你生日收到了什么礼物?
She got a degree from York University.
她在约克大学取得了学位。
2be sent STH 接到某物 formalGET to get a letter, message, or telephone call, or something which someone has sent you 接到,收到〔信件、消息、电话等〕
receive something from somebody
He received a letter from his insurance company.
他收到他的保险公司寄来的一封信。
If you would like to receive further information, return the attached form.
欲收到详细资料,请交回所附表格。
We have received numerous complaints about the noise.
我们已经收到很多对噪音的投诉。
3treatment 治疗 formalMIMH if you receive a particular type of medicaltreatment, it is done to you 接受〔治疗〕
He received hospital treatment for a cut over his eye.
The film was well received by critics (=they said it was good).
影评家们对这部电影反响良好。
He received the news in silence.
他听了这个消息默不作声。
nGrammar
Receive is often passive in this meaning.
5be on/at the receiving end (of something)EFFECT/INFLUENCEto be the person who is affected by someone else’s actions, usually in an unpleasant way 承受〔通常指不愉快之事〕
She found herself on the receiving end of racist abuse.
她觉得自己遭到种族虐待。
Examples from the Corpus
be on/at the receiving end (of something)• On the other there was the undoubted fact that we would be on the receiving end.• Today it was my turn to be on the receiving end.• What was it like to be on the receiving end?• You didn't have to be a client or a famous face to be on the receiving end.• Otherwise, his supplyunit would be on the receiving end of a simulatedbomb or Tomahawkcruisemissile.• This is often best done in conjunction with those who are going to be on the receiving end of an appraisalinterview.• Talk show hosts can also be on the receiving end of questions.• I know how it feels to be on the receiving end of that.
6.receive an injury/blowformal to be injured or hit 受伤/挨打
Examples from the Corpus
receive an injury/blow• As they straighten, curve the spine and pull in the tummy, as if you have just received a blow.• He went down to protest and himself began to receive blows.• Ben stood transfixed with disbelief, his mouth open, as if he had received a blow across it.• Agnes went to pick her up and received a blow from an elbow that sent her across the room.• Wilson received an injury in the thirdminute, but that didn't hamper his stand on the game.• His adventure began during a practice game against the Minnesota Vikings when he received a blow to the head.• It was almost as if I had received a blow to the heart.• For his outspokenness, he received a blow to the skull which sent him reeling.
7people 人 formalSS to officially accept someone as a guest or member of a group 接待,招待;接纳
receive guests/visitors
She isn’t well enough to receive visitors yet.
她身体还不是很好,不能见客。
receive somebody into something
She was later received into the Church.
她后来被接纳入教。
8by radio 用无线电
a)TCBif a radio or television receives radio waves or other signals, it makes them become sounds or pictures 〔收音机、电视〕接收到〔无线电或电视信号〕
b)TCBto be able to hear a radio message that someone is sending 收听到〔无线电信号〕
received ... treatment• Yates had a history of drugabuse for which she received treatment.• Carey Lohrenz received preferential treatment and inflatedgrades during flight training.• And she has received shock treatment before.• Only eight and 12 children respectively received nutritional treatment for varyingintervals during years one and two.• Over 700 demonstratorsreceived treatment in hospital.• I received treatment on my injury every day in Edinburgh, so that by the end I was recovering well.• In the past six months, the interventionspecialistsinterviewed about 440 people, and most received treatment within a week.
well received• But a reissue of his work this week has been less well received.• Organizations that come in trying to tell people what to do or how to think are not very well received.• The novel was not well received.• The plenary sessions on Friday and Saturday were less well received.• He was well received, and we were led to believe the administration would offer constructiveproposals for reforminghealthcare.• The message was well received by commissioners.• Hawke's first novel was well received by many book critics.• Protests have been peaceful and well received by the public.• Another gift that was well received was a book of poetry for which I made a pressedflowerbookmark.
receive guests/visitors• But her spirit remained intact, and she continued to receive visitors.• Not for nothing had this little processionpresented the air of a party setting out to receive guests.• He could receive visitors and was allowed out of jail from time to time, even occasionally to preach in London.• She did, however, often visit friends and members of her family, as well as receive visitors at Weston.• He was delighted to receive visitors but charged Mike £50 for the opportunity to photograph him.• She did not receive visitorsdressed only in a shirt.• Tower has received visitors from every conceivable country on earth and indigenous people from the Cordillera have visited Britain.
Originreceive
(1300-1400)Old North Frenchreceivre, from Latinrecipere, from capere“to take”