reap
- v. 收割
- v. 收获, 获得
- Definition
- v. to cut and gather a crop
- v. to receive something as a result of your actions
- Example
- Farmers reap the wheat every autumn before the cold weather arrives.
- 每年秋天寒冷天气来临之前，农民们都会收割小麦。
Synonyms & Differences 近义词辨析
Compared meaning: to cut and gather a crop (verb).
比较义项：收割（庄稼）（动词）。
- harvest
The common, everyday word for gathering a crop; used for any crop and any scale of farming, and doubles as the ordinary noun for the crop or the season.
这是最常用、最普通的说法，可用于任何作物和任何规模的农业生产，也可直接作名词表示收成或收获季节。
The farm hires extra workers to harvest the apples in late September.
这家农场在九月底会雇更多工人来收割苹果。
- reap 本词
A more literary or old-fashioned word, historically tied to cutting grain by hand with a sickle or scythe; sounds formal or poetic in modern everyday speech.
这个词更书面、略显古旧，历史上特指用镰刀之类的工具徒手割下谷物；在现代日常口语中使用显得比较正式或带有诗意。
In the old paintings, peasants reap the golden wheat by hand with sickles.
在那些古画里，农民们用镰刀徒手收割金黄的麦子。
Harvest and reap both mean to gather a ripe crop. Harvest is the common, everyday word, used for any crop. Reap is more literary or old-fashioned, from cutting grain by hand with a tool. Reap can also mean 'to get a reward'; not compared here.
这两个词都表示把成熟的庄稼收割下来，但harvest是日常最通用的说法，可指整个收获过程；reap更书面、略显古旧，原指用镰刀等工具割下谷物，现代口语中较少单独使用。这里不比较reap在“获得（后果、回报）”这一比喻义上的用法，如reap the rewards。