词汇 | accumulate |
词源 | accumulate. Accumulate means literally “to heap up,” from the Latin accumulare. (We also find the idea in “cumulus” clouds, billowing clouds heaped up in the sky.) One who accu- mulates wealth piles it up by adding money to the figurative pile. |
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