1mass noun The action or process of collecting someone or something.

一批收藏的唱片。

她把这信封留在办公室里等人来拿。

1. 1.1count noun A regular removal of mail for dispatch or of refuse for disposal.
   收邮件（以备发送）；收垃圾（以备处理）
   withdrawal of the Sunday collections

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Oh, I nearly forgot, we are lucky enough to have a refuse collection and now CPZ has been foisted upon us against our wishes, I might add.
   • Postal workers' leaders warned that action over pay could threaten the Christmas mail as post and council strikes disrupted collections and deliveries and closed schools and libraries yesterday.
   • The crisis is affecting all aspects of life in the rural community with refuse collections and postal services to farms affected by the restrictions placed on people entering and leaving farmland.
   • The power to suspend bin collections from people who refuse to pay their annual charges was made possible under the Protection of the Environment Act 2003.
   • From today, Tuesday, all items that cannot be disposed of in regular collections can be dropped off at the centre.
   • Commissioner Walsh firmly believes that charges for domestic refuse collections are a form of double taxation and he and others of a similar ilk are entitled to that opinion.
   • All traffic was stopped between 5.30 am and 7.15 pm and refuse collections were cancelled so that police search teams could search through the rubbish.
   • More than 1,600 have joined now our protest - calling on city council chiefs to retain weekly household refuse collections.
   • Meanwhile, the four local authorities in Dublin said they hoped to clear most of the backlog in refuse collections by the weekend.
   • Weekly refuse collections may return to South Woodham Ferrers under a review currently being undertaken by the borough council.
   • The Royal Mail has reduced collections without providing bigger postboxes to accommodate the volume of letters.
   • And 97 per cent of those asked said they are happy with their weekly refuse collections, while four out of five said the council was doing a good job.
   • Householders are being asked how York Council should organise refuse collections in future to help the recycling project.
   • Local authorities would then arrange for refuse trucks to make regular collections of waste destined for recycling.
   • Despite the recent problems experienced with refuse collections in the town, it was not the council's mistake this time.
   • The post office has refused to make collections from a post box but as soon as the cameras are in, I shall be writing in the hope the box will be reopened.
   • Braintree Council's quarterly performance report found that during the first quarter of this year, missed refuse collections soared.
   • What indeed has the value of property to do say with road maintenance, environment issues, food inspections, refuse collections, social services?
   • Most controversially, officers revealed that the authority was considering reducing refuse collections to once a fortnight and saving £900,000 a year in the process.
   • He said there were contingency plans in place to make sure Post Office services and mail collections and deliveries would face minimal disruption.
2. 1.2count noun An instance of collecting money in a church service or for a charity.
   （举行宗教仪式时或为慈善事业的）募捐
   a collection is to be taken up for the Ecclesiastical Students Fund

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   • An appeal for donations was read out in more than 400 mosques across Britain yesterday and many churches are planning to hold collections at services this weekend.
   • Trocaire, which has raised almost €2m, is expecting to double that after church collections from yesterday are included.
   • Most of the Scottish Baptist churches took collections to assist this effort.
   • The attendees also took up a collection for repair of Cowsill's guitar, which was also damaged.
   • Many pay through collections at church, so they feel they are being made to pay twice.
   • At Pimlico Race Course near Baltimore, jockeys took up a collection earmarked for the American Red Cross.
   • She said churches had raised the money both through collections at services and through coffee mornings and other fund-raising events.
   • Unfortunately this will make people wary about donating to genuine charities which use doorstep collections as a way of raising money.
   • Wharfedale churches and business have been holding their own collections and charity shops have also witnessed incredible local generosity.
   • Groups donate collections directly to their charity of choice.
   • In fact Gregory went home to Aberdeen and took a collection outside the church doors for money to build his observatory.
   • He added that, as around 70 per cent of the congregation are retired, every pound put into church collections is a hard-earned one.
   • In the Old Testament, Judas Maccabeus took up a collection that he sent to Jerusalem as a sin offering.
   • She was very helpful and had a great community spirit, always willing to help out at the Church, charitable collections etc.
   • It is almost impossible to guess who will give money and who won't when you're doing a street collection, charity workers say.
   • There will be a collection at the church for the victims of the tsunami.
   • Saint-Léon records that at one point in 1869 Pugni was so broke the dancers of the Imperial Ballet took up a collection to help him feed his large family.
   • A collection at the local church recently for Sligo Mental Health raised E319.58 from the church-goers.
   • Money raised came via collections at RAAF Bases Williamtown and Edinburgh and generous donations from Boeing, BAe Systems, and Sverdrup.
   • And those who have continued to attend church services have been told to put more money into collections or run the risk of losing their place of worship.

   Synonyms

   donations, contributions, gifts, subscription(s), alms

   informal whip-round
3. 1.3count noun A sum of money raised during a church or charity collection.
   Example sentencesExamples

   • Furthermore, the Talmud provides a budget detailing how the Temple's collections should be expended.

   Synonyms

   offering, offertory, tithe

2A group of things or people.

一片布局散乱无序的建筑群。

1. 2.1 A group of accumulated items of a particular kind.
   a record collection

   一批收藏的唱片。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Pictures like these come from national collections which do not charge entry fees, and do not send to galleries which do.
   • They will exhibit their permanent Rubens collections together with loans from other institutions and private collectors.
   • It is surely the duty of the presiding executive to provide this most responsible custodian of the nation's premier art collections with funding commensurate with market values.
   • The weight of history is evident both in the presence of the numerous national collections, and in the self-consciousness of the city's layout of monuments in the surrounding area.
   • The private records collections consist mainly of donations of diaries and letters written by service people and their families.
   • Now he buys record collections from collectors or estates.
   • But now, with digital technology, we can gather permanent collections of material, and make them accessible to a virtual audience.
   • After gathering a collection of more than 600 Elvis LPs and various memorabilia he is keen to share his experiences with other like minded fans.
   • Indeed, most of the exhibits are from the museum: only fifty out of around 500 have come from Persepolis and the Iranian national collections.
   • More than 40 countries are currently searching their national collections for plundered treasures.
   • The latest in the occasional Another Late Night series raids the record collection of icebox studio duo Groove Armada.
   • Many valuable works, of course, have not reappeared in our day, but are available only in libraries and private collections.
   • Dr Xu said that a fossil in a private collection in China contains the mirror image of the tail of the alleged Archaeoraptor.
   • The avid hoarder is packing up her entire collection of 1,250 lamps and taking them with her.
   • The archaeological collections in the Roman National Museum in Rome and in the National Archaeological Museum in Naples are probably among the world's best.
   • German collections of Indian art have been built around private collections since the 17th Century, and traditionally housed in ethnological museums.
   • The first time I was there, it seemed to have borrowed my record collection for the afternoon.
   • Early ‘Accumulations’ feature collections of gas masks, hair combs and cameras.
   • Drawing on Turkey's wealth of art collections, most of the 370 objects on display are from Istanbul's Topkapi Palace Museum and the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art.
   • Above these, three levels of flexible modular space have been divided to contain specific collections of work.

   Synonyms

   hoard, pile, heap, stack, gathering, stock, store, stockpile

   accumulation, mass, build-up, reserve, supply, bank, pool, fund, mine, reservoir

   conglomeration, cumulation, accrual, aggregation, accretion, agglomerate, agglomeration

   rare amassment

   set, series, array, assortment
2. 2.2 A book or recording containing various texts, poems, songs, etc.
   文集；诗集；歌曲集；录音文集；录音诗集；录音歌曲集
   a collection of essays

   一部杂文集。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • To create each song in the collection, a traditional melody was carefully selected for each poem chosen in the final draft.
   • I'm too tired that evening to open either Himself Alone or The Idiot, and in any case I want to a make a start on a new book, a collection of short essays on single poems.
   • The author has published six books, five collections of poetry and a volume of essays.
   • In 30 years, Osofisan has had more than 40 plays produced and has published two collections of poems, novels, songs and critical essays.
   • An intellectual artist who has published many collections of essays and books on painting, Wu is one of the few Chinese artists to have established a reputation both in China and the West.
   • Colquhoun's fourth poetry book, a collection of love poems, is due out next year.
   • Ritson also published several popular collections and anthologies of songs, children's verses, fairy stories, etc.
   • His oeuvre includes eight collections of poems, four collections of short stories, four plays and two books of non-fiction.
   • To some extent the poems in his seventh collection continue in that vein, but in many of them the poet takes a somber turn as he muses over old age and death.
   • The result was a decade of vigorous sales, during which labels merely repackaged the same music into ever more expensive collections and sat back to count the revenues.
   • He has also published numerous books, collections of photographs and essays, reflections on film-making and other photographic and art books.
   • If only anthologists would give the date and title of collections that poems are drawn from they would help readers place the material in some context.
   • This grouping of books comprises Stacy Doris's second book of poems and two debut collections - those of Jennifer Clarvoe and Joanna Klink.
   • The book is a collection of poetry and graphic art created by Nabil over a period of 20 years from 1983 to 2003.
   • In doing so, we have restricted our study mainly to full-length texts such as edited collections and single-authored literary critical books.
   • Reading a novel or a poem or a collection of essays requires only that you bring home the book, curl up in your favorite chair and begin.
   • Natarajan has written two more books - a collection of his poems and his father's biography.
   • I still found this to be a great collection of the band's music, but I would warn fans to not expect too much from the second disc.
   • Village Tales, their second recording, is a collection of traditional folk songs from across China.
   • Paul Kane has published eight books, including two collections of poems and a critical study of Australian poetry.

   Synonyms

   anthology, selection, compendium, treasury, compilation, miscellany, miscellanea, pot-pourri

   collected works

   archaic garland

   rare analects, collectanea, ana, florilegium, spicilege
3. 2.3 A range of new clothes produced by a fashion house.
   一批展览的时装
   a preview of their autumn collection

   他们的秋季时装展览会的一次预展。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Spring and summer fashion collections this season feature shoes and accessories that combine creativity and innovation.
   • The owners of RyanKenny were quick to compare their idea for a couture line with the collections of their fashion counterparts.
   • The fashion houses will showcase their collections individually in a series of shows at IFC through September 26.
   • When Donatella Versace finishes one of her glitzy fashion collections she rewards herself for her hard work with a coloured diamond or two.
   • Urban Outfitters is noted for its ground-breaking fashion collections and quirky gift range, and has a US turnover of $200 million.
   • Hmm… I think the Christian Lacroix collection was my favourite out of all the FW06 haute couture collections.
   • The final day of this year's Alternative Fashion Week saw a variety of collections ranging from the understated to blatant exhibitionism.
   • At the moment the young designer is preparing her collection for the fashion show that is always held at the end of each school year.
   • Designer Ralph Rucci has used them for his couture collections and even introduced rainwear made from transparent silk.
   • He has presented television programmes, is an ambassador for the designer Giorgio Armani's collections and his love of fashion has made him a gay icon - all, it must be said, very David Beckham.
   • The highlight of the fashion show must surely have been the range of bridal collections on view from the Bridal Hall, Portlaoise under the guidance of Breda and Helen.
   • The fall fashion collections are by far my favorite.
   • The Paris High Fashion collections run through July 11.
   • Liz also admitted her career as a film producer was on hold at the launch last month of her first fashion range - a collection of beachwear..
   • Ever since seeing his Haute Couture collections, I've had a thing for Christian Lacroix.
   • The collections of Indian fashion designer Anita Dongre displayed here recently were just what I had imagined they would be: rich in detail and color.
   • Look at Kmart, which has built its Jaclyn Smith and Martha Stewart collections into national brands, Liebmann said.
   • It includes activities such as fashion shows featuring collections by prominent designers, makeover sessions and modelling contests.
   • Irish designer Paul Costelloe has turned the tables on the anti-hunt political lobby and reintroduced fur and feathers to his autumn 2002 couture collections.
   • Pleated leather handbags and bomber jackets from the fashion collection produce a refined, luxurious look.

3collectionsBritish College examinations held at the beginning or end of a term, especially at Oxford University.