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。）