🇬🇧🇨🇳 harvest - 收割 : English Lesson

Meaning of "harvest" ("收割"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

To harvest means to go out and collect food that has finished growing, like fruits, vegetables, or grains. Farmers harvest when the plants are big, ripe, and ready to be picked and used for food. You can also harvest things like fish or seaweed from the water when they are old enough to eat.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

The farmer let us harvest eggs from the chicken coop, and the chickens loudly disagreed with this plan.

I went out to harvest herbs for dinner and came back having accidentally harvested twelve mosquito bites.

Mom said we’d harvest grapes for juice, but my cousin harvested them straight into his mouth like a tiny vacuum cleaner.

Dad asked if we wanted to harvest corn, and we said yes before we realized cornfields are basically leafy mazes with spiders.

Farmers harvest so much wheat every year that if you lined all the grains up, you’d have way too much free time and a very confused farmer.

At dusk, Ana and her father harvest the small field. They harvest corn, they harvest beans, they harvest potatoes into woven baskets. They harvest until hands ache but baskets grow heavy. They carry the harvest home, set the crates by the door, sit at the table and taste the first warm meal, smiling with quiet pride.

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This word is at the C1 level, which means it’s part of advanced English. It’s used in sophisticated conversations, professional settings, and academic discussions. Words at this level help you express yourself fluently and precisely in nuanced situations.

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