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SAT TEM8 GMAT GRE TOEIC
外刊例句
- PwC, a consultancy, predicts that AI-related growth will boost global GDP by $16trn by 2030; nearly half of that bonanza will accrue to China, it reckons.
咨询公司普华永道预测，到2030年，与人工智能有关的增长将令全球GDP增长16万亿美元。它估计这笔“横财”有将近一半都将流向中国。
——《经济学人》 - Simultaneously, there has been a big rise in inequality as the benefits of economic growth have accrued to those at the top of the income scale, as well as a steady increase in corporate income and profits.
与此同时，由于经济增长带来的好处不断涌向那些位于收入金字塔顶部的人，以及企业收入和利润的稳步增长，不平等现象大幅加剧。
——《纽约时报》
基本释义
[verb] (of sums of money or benefits) be received by someone in regular or increasing amounts over time
[动词] （指金钱或利益的款项）被人定期地或随着时间推移不断增加地收到
深入解读
Accrue 一词源自拉丁语 accrescere （增加、逐渐增长、变得更大），15世纪经古法语 acreue （增加、增长、增长物）进入英语后，即用作动词表示逐渐“增加、增长”，常作正式用语搭配 accrue (to sb) (from sth) 使用，主要指金钱、利益、利息以及债务、支出等定期或者随着时间推移自然增长、积累而产生或形成，比如：
- 旅游业为该国带来的切实经济效益
tangible economic benefits accruing to the country from tourism - 过渡政府拒绝批准进一步降息。目前账户上的存款将会以3%的利率生息。
The interim government refused to sanction a further cut in interest rates. Currently, interest will accrue on the account at a rate of three percent.
该词也可以用作及物动词使用，相应表示“使……逐渐增加”，也是指在一段时间内使金钱、利益、利息以及债务、支出等逐渐增加，比如：
- 该行将倒闭的公司已积欠了超过600万美元的债务。
The moribund company had accrued debts of over $6m.
演讲用例
As a result, the up-front cost for education is real, large, and easy to measure. The returns are equally real and even larger, but they accrue over a lifetime, are hard to measure, and vary from person to person.
因此，教育的前期成本是实实在在的、巨大的，并且易于衡量。回报同样实在，甚至更大，但它们是终生累积的，难以衡量，而且因人而异。
出自普林斯顿大学校长克里斯托弗·伊斯格鲁布（Christopher L. Eisgruber）在2018年毕业典礼上发表的题为“The Value of a College Degree”的演讲。
同近义词
- amass: gather together or accumulate (a large amount or number of valuable material or things) over a period of time
- collect: accumulate and store over a period of time
- accumulate: gather together or acquire an increasing number or quantity of
