receive只表示被动地接受，不意味着同意接受
Then he smiled and told me I would receive an extra ￡100 a year!
后来他笑了，并且告诉我说，我将一年收到一百英镑的额外收入！
If you receive a request like this， you cannot fail to obey it!
如果你收到这样的一种请求，你不会不服从的！
A baby can only receive sense impressions，but it can not understand them.
婴儿只能接受感官方面的印象，而不能理解。
She has received his present， but she will not accept it.
她收到了他的礼物，但她是不会接受的。
而就get来说，在意思上跟receive有相似的意思，都有得到的意思，但是get所表示的，更为主动，更加积极。
如：Nobody can get him to work hard. 没有人可以让他去努力工作。（主动权在他手上。）