receive是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 收到， 接到； 遭受， 受到； 接待， 接见，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Saying this, he compelled us so to square our positions that we might receive from the far off fire a dull ray to show us the text of the lumber he thrust upon us.
-- They go the rounds of all the respectable houses, and receive contributions every Christmas, and we esteemed it a first rate treat to hear them.
-- On the before named occasion he came into the house to announce his intention of doing nothing, while I was assisting Miss Cathy to arrange her dress: she had not reckoned on his taking it into his head to be idle; and imagining she would have the whole place to herself, she managed, by some means, to inform Mr. Edgar of her brother's absence, and was then preparing to receive him.
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