mindmap root((收成)) reap basically applies to the cutting down and usually collecting of ripened grain, and often suggests a return or requital: hoped to ~ the rewards of hard work. glean implies a striping of a field or plant that has already been gone over once and applies to any gathering up of useful bits from here and there and especially of such as have been overlooked by others: ~ed new evidence from the site of the crime. gather applies to any collecting or bringing together of material, such as the produce of a farm or garden, and stresses amassing or accumulation: ~ed information. (amass积攒to gather together，如he amassed a fortune他积攒了一笔财产) garner implies the storing of produce reaped or gathered and can apply to any laying away of a store: a collection of maxims ~ed from her neighbors. harvest may imply any or all of these agricultural practices or may apply to any gathering in or husbanding: ~ed a bumper crop.