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词汇 read
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Definition of read in English:

read

verb riːdrid
[with object]
  • 1Look at and comprehend the meaning of (written or printed matter) by interpreting the characters or symbols of which it is composed.

    读,阅读(书面材料,印刷材料)

    it's the best novel I've ever read

    这是我读过的最好的小说。

    I never learned to read music

    我从未学过识谱。

    Emily read over her notes

    埃米莉把笔记看了一遍。

    no object I'll go to bed and read for a while

    我要上床读一会儿书。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He's lying on the bed, reading the paper as I put on my makeup.
    • Still, since only the two of us ever read this stuff, it barely matters, does it?
    • When she complained that she wouldn't have time she was told not to worry and just to skim read the papers.
    • I know all the stories and the names of the characters from my time reading the Bible as a child.
    • He could see his poem, deeply creased now as if it had been read over and over, lying on the floor by his feet.
    • Sunday morning I put him down for a nap and I stayed in bed reading the paper.
    • The nature of these disclosures, and the colorful language used, strongly support the belief that no one ever reads this material.
    • Consumers should know what is good for them and make it a habit to at least read the ingredients written on the packets.
    • He read over what had happened and then read the email from Neil that she had attached.
    • Far too much of my work involved reading old newspapers and regional magazines on microfilm.
    • You don't need a computer to read a magazine or newspaper on the bus on your way to work.
    • If anyone can read the characters on the sword itself, please let me know what they say.
    • He was reading the newspaper and he looked up at me and said in a very serious tone of voice.
    • It just seems to be one long tirade on how to read stuff and then write it.
    • Nobody has ever read the small print of a mobile-phone insurance contract.
    • Clearly, the notion of reading everything ever written is now entirely preposterous.
    • Alex was reading the papers in bed one Sunday morning when the smoke alarm fitted outside her bedroom door went off.
    • I cannot read the characters you sent to me, but I can see the web site address.
    • In all of the books she had ever read the main character always had some sort of friend.
    • It's not a good look watching grown men and women openly weeping while reading a tabloid newspaper!
    Synonyms
    peruse, study, scrutinize, look through
    pore over, devour, be absorbed in, bury oneself in
    wade through, plough through
    run one's eye over, cast an eye over, leaf through, scan, glance through, flick through, skim through, thumb through, flip through, browse through, dip into
    archaic con
    decipher, make out, make sense of, interpret, understand, comprehend
    1. 1.1no object Have the ability to look at and comprehend the meaning of written or printed matter.
      有阅读能力
      only three of the girls could read and none could write

      只有三个姑娘识字,没有一个会写字。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Both tests will assess the listening, speaking, reading and writing abilities of students.
      • Anyway it was his own silly fault for not reading what I wrote.
      • It is clear that higher education is a sector predicated upon the ability to read and write accurately.
      • Patients may quickly lose their ability to read or to see the faces of their grandchildren.
      • Most girls were not expected to use their schooling beyond the ability to read, so they didn't pay it much attention.
      • After all, if you stand in front of a room and tell everyone that no one reads what you write online, maybe the problem isn't with the users or the medium.
      • Her mother couldn't understand why she wanted to bury herself away in her bedroom, reading and writing and spending time on her own.
      • A stroke can affect your ability to read and write and even if you can talk, sometimes the words don't come out in the correct order.
      • Lione quickly caught the attention of the royals with her ability to read and write.
      • We are also in the three top-performing countries on mathematical ability, reading, and literacy.
      • There are still people leaving school without the ability to read or write.
      • Figures published last week showed alarming gaps in children's ability to read and write.
      • It seems somehow odd now to recall that none of these three could read or write, and that they did not speak English.
      • By high school the typical boy is a year and a half behind the typical girl in reading and writing.
      • Most lose or never develop the ability to read and write in their native language.
      • The world operates and revolves around reading and having the ability to comprehend what is read.
      • The ability to read and write, an experience of debate: these are essential to democracy.
      • Until about a year ago, none of them could read and write; now they are studying mathematics.
      • They're slow at it, and they never achieve full ability to read quickly and automatically.
      • She said the greater the levels of exposure, the greater the decline in reading and reasoning ability.
    2. 1.2 Speak (the written or printed matter that one is reading) aloud.
      (尤指向另一人)朗读,宣读(书面材料,印刷材料)
      I read the letter to her
      the charges against him were read out

      有人宣读了对他的指控。

      no object I'll read to you if you like

      如果你喜欢我就读给你听。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • They guys are looking at us with a mixture of curiosity and fear so I decide to read the letter aloud.
      • They came over to look over her shoulder as she read the scroll aloud, unrolling it.
      • The three tellers read each ballot successively, and the third one reads the name aloud.
      • This time, Gerard and Kathleen caught up to us as I was reading the card aloud.
      • He performs his poems and children join in, writing their own poetry or reading his aloud.
      • They wrote essays, or lectures, or sermons and they read them aloud.
      • She didn't just show it to her, she ended up reading it all aloud and was rewarded with the first real chuckle we've had from her for weeks.
      • The Duke hands the letter to the clerk, who reads it aloud.
      • Letters and cards were read thanking the branch for Christmas gifts given to older members who are unable to attend meetings.
      • She was glad now that her History teacher humiliated her by taking that letter and reading it aloud to the class.
      • Standing before those who had come to read out their poems, she recollected images about poetry reading sessions.
      • How about nobody sings, nobody recites, nobody reads aloud, nobody speaks or tap dances or whatever it is the great media event people are planning.
      • Mum or dad reads the story, while the child follows the pictures - and occasionally makes that little jump of recognition when they realise the characters they are looking at make up one of the words mum or dad has just read out.
      • She wrote letters to Christian's large family for him often, and when a letter arrived for him she'd read it aloud.
      • Please remember these qualifications are read over the telephone during the interview.
      • Perhaps she stands in front of them to prevent her mother or her kid from reading them aloud.
      • He reads it aloud, and then proceeds to asks us the riddle.
      • It is basically a long prose poem meant to be read aloud, and I could only take so much of that at one time.
      • This completed the case for the prosecution and the usual caution was read over to the prisoners.
      • Proud of himself and unable to contain his joy, he began to read the letter aloud.
      Synonyms
      read out, read aloud, say aloud, recite, declaim
    3. 1.3 Habitually read (a particular newspaper or periodical)
      (习惯性地)读(报),看(杂志)
      now, I know what my reputation is—I read the papers
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In the absence of good Muslim newspapers Muslims are compelled to read other newspapers.
      • But then no one reads a newspaper in the same way as they do a magazine. Newspapers primarily inform.
      • You all want to read newspapers, you all want the products of the forest, somewhere the trees have to be grown.
      • In print advertising, you are looking at everybody who reads the magazine or newspaper.
      • He read Jewish newspapers to learn the business of emigration to Palestine and other countries.
      • He doesn't read the newspaper and is proud of it.
      • I do read newspapers, and you can ask about my politics and I will tell you.
      • So we were reading the newspapers and scraping the barrels of our own experiences.
      • After months in the fields helping the farmer tend cows, Martin started reading the newspapers.
      • Getting him to sit down at story time proved impossible but by the age of four he was reading newspapers.
      • My college tenured several professors who instilled in students a sharp guilt about reading newspapers.
      • She also enjoyed reading the newspapers and neighbours calling in for a cup of tea and chatting about old times.
      • We read newspapers and we see certain schools with poor results every year.
      • She believes that teens in the rural Jamaica can help the industry by reading the newspapers and being aware of what is going on.
      • Right now, however, it is doubly hard to be a black woman, especially one who reads newspapers or, heaven forbid, happens to be remotely newsworthy.
      • He reads newspapers and law journals, and would like to improve Grahamstown's public amenities.
      • Ireland is no madder than England - as anyone who reads English tabloid newspapers will know.
      • Mr Nairn is described as living in Ireland, but clearly reads the Scottish newspapers with a diligence they do not always deserve and has a tendency to keep cuttings of congenial opinions.
      • Even the simple act of reading a newspaper is fraught for you.
      • I don't think it will come as any great surprise to you that I've stopped reading newspapers.
    4. 1.4no object, with complement (of a passage, text, or sign) have a certain wording.
      (段落,文本,标志)载有,写着
      the placard read ‘We want justice’

      标语牌上写着“我们要公平”。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Just as we were leaving, the teashop put out a sign reading: Now baking: Yorkshire Rascals.
      • He said: ‘There is one sign which reads Taxis Only but that is covered with graffiti.’
      • After another hour of travel, we finally saw a sign reading that the town of Tol is five more miles away.
      • A label on one of the cans reads: ‘No matter if the product is used up or not, don't bump it.
      • Flowers left at the spot are accompanied by a note that reads: ‘You were my guru and always put a smile on my face.’
      • The third floor sign reads: Floor 3: These men have highly paid jobs, love kids, are extremely good looking, and help with the housework.
      • The religious text reads, ‘Before thy throne I now appear’, and it seems a most appropriate conclusion to a fantastic life of music.
      • Outside my niece's old primary school, a very prominent sign reads: ‘You are entering a gun-free zone.’
      • On the right-hand side, stark text reads thus: ‘What, we ask, might this trigger economically?’
      • The campaign features a series a posters showing empty parts of a house with street signs reading Bedroom, Stairs and Hallway.
      • T-shirts are also available, the sign reads on.
      • We were in a corridor with a door at either end, each door has a sign, one reads Undermountain, the other, Rappan Athuk.
      • At Larapinta School they've got a sign that reads STOP, THINK, DO.
      • A statement on the band's website reads: ‘We will be doing a press tour in July for Europe.’
      • Television is the only place where, as the sign reads in Claudia's apartment, ‘It really happened.’
      • A passage in the book reads: ‘Now the Tree of Life extends from above downwards, and is the sun which illuminates all.’
      • One sign reads, ‘You've got to have balls to conquer the world.’
      • One passage reads: ‘I regard personal disloyalty as the worst crime of all, and have killed some guilty of it without a qualm.’
      • One day, he finds the manuscript left for him with a note which reads: ‘Welcome to our ranks!
      • Pay Here, reads the sign in the National Park's Grassington car park.
    5. 1.5 Used to indicate that a particular word in a text or passage is incorrect and that another should be substituted for it.
      用于订正用词讹误改作,换用
      for madam read madman

      改"madam"为"madman"。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • For Scholes at domestic level, read van der Vaart and others in the national team.
    6. 1.6read forno object (of an actor) audition for (a role)
      (演员)试演(戏剧或电影中的角色)
      ring your agent and say you'll read for the part
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He said no - but as he was leaving the audition he was asked to read for a show.
      • He has the uncanny ability to master the American accent which, along with his smile and look, helped set him apart from the other actors reading for the part.
      • The rest of the roles are filled by auditions of invited actors reading for specific parts and some by general auditions.
  • 2Discover (information) by reading it in a written or printed source.

    读到,获悉(信息)

    he was arrested yesterday—I read it in the paper

    他昨日被捕了——我是从报上看到的。

    no object I read about the course in a magazine

    我在一本杂志上了解到了有关这门课程的信息。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I read about it in a book but cant find real proof.
    • I read with interest of your concerns about the Greens' progressive drug policy.
    • It's appropriate to set the record straight so that anyone who read the information in your report knows the truth.
    • It is not board level, because I have read in another submission there are no black women at board level.
    • The question that came up for me reading your information about SARS has to do with numbers of cases.
    • The Boks of today are more interested in writing history than reading about it.
    1. 2.1as adjective, with submodifier read Having a specified level of knowledge as a result of reading.
      Ada was well read in French literature

      艾达对法国和德国文学涉猎甚广。

      he is a man deeply read in history, philosophy, and theology
      Example sentencesExamples
      • She loved art, travel, and parties, and read widely in Russian and French as well as English.
      • I was glad I had read widely and learnt poetry and parts of the Book Of Common Prayer by rote.
      • He has read widely in the archives, and listened afresh to the music of the period.
      • He has read widely and in depth, he writes well and he has an eye for the colourful phrase.
      • Widely read, and a lover of music and languages, she was attending French classes up until her death.
      • People are quite well informed and well read in India and aware of everything.
      • But Eagleton, one of the most widely read theorists alive, knows all this, so what does he mean?
      • He was widely read and took a keen interest in history, current affairs, politics and religion.
      • Underneath that homeless-person exterior is an articulate, widely read man.
      • I can see why he's both beloved amongst geeks and starting to become more widely read.
      • Could this be because Sebald had read widely in the subject and could see things that we can't?
      • If not a grindingly deep scholar, Mr Holland has read widely and absorbed the literature intelligently.
      • He began to experiment with verse from an early age, and read widely.
      • So he was a highly, very widely read guy and he had a very sound philosophy behind all the nonsense that was going on.
      • The basis of Hutton's work was observation, but he had read widely the literature available.
    2. 2.2 Discern (a fact, emotion, or quality) in someone's eyes or expression.
      看出,觉察出,洞悉(事实,感情,品质)
      she looked down, terrified that he would read fear on her face

      她低下头,害怕他觉察到自己脸上的恐惧表情。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • He could read the shame in Drake's voice and had a pretty fair idea of what had transpired.
      • Sara sighed and lowered her head in order to prevent Gabe from reading the emotions, which leaked out of her tired eyes.
      • Kyle can read the anguish as she moves on again, her unwillingness to let a good man die.
      • Not for the first time, Monique was very glad that he could not read emotions like she could, or thoughts, like Lawrence.
      • I wanted to read every emotion going through his head through those eyes.
      • He just surveyed me with those dark eyes that seemed to read my emotions, and kept on driving.
      • He laughed and looked at his plate, as if he was embarrassed for reading my emotions wrong.
      • But how can you read the clues as to what's going on in the boss's mind - or behind the scenes?
      • He showed nothing in his jet black eyes, not that I was used to reading the emotions of birds.
      • Sarah squinted her eyes in curiosity trying hard to read the information from his face.
      • Brent studied her face, he could read every emotion and thought she had at that moment.
      • Even if they can't speak another's language, they can still read their emotions.
      • She was reading his emotions, the ones that were bottled up inside without use.
      • It's hard to read the feelings of others when you still haven't figured out your own.
      • Gregory reached out subconsciously with his mind, reading her feelings of horror and fear.
      • But Keren to his annoyance had a way of reading his moods and using them to his advantage.
      • It's very hard at the moment to read that mood, but it's uncertain, slightly fearful, unconfident.
      • He had learned to read her moods and expressions well in the past year since they had married.
      • She could not read the emotions and raised her hot fingers to trace the outline of her cheek.
      • They bored into mine and read my fears even before I had the courage to think them.
  • 3Understand or interpret the nature or significance of.

    解释,阐释;解答,理解

    he didn't dare look away, in case this was read as a sign of weakness

    他不敢移开视线,以防被视为软弱无能。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • When the voices speak to him (or he reads the significance of Viking remains), they tell him how to get on with his poetry, not how the rest of the people from the North can get on with life.
    • As such, the glories of nature can be read as harbingers of a future still arriving.
    • The evidence before me establishes that that is how it was read and understood by the Claimants, and in my view reasonably so.
    • The guy can still throw the ball, he understands how to read defenses and he can move the chains.
    • We need to know the story being played out before us and, instinctively, start to read the clues.
    • Perhaps I read it wrong, but I would strongly encourage you not to make blanket statements.
    • The desert is an unforgiving place to those who cannot read its signs or understand its subtle warnings.
    • He was a man who was way ahead of his time and read the signs of the times that were later to be the basis of Vatican 2.
    • After your date reads the first clue, they will be on an exciting adventure to find you.
    • To do this they turned to techniques developed by Freudian psychoanalysts to read the inner desires of the new self.
    • What will people do then, being able to read their love lives, the stock market, war and peace all in the stars?
    • I apologise to Jack Robertson for reading him the wrong way, although I am not sure I follow all of what he says.
    • They would see reading art by understanding the symbols as an easy way of interpreting culture.
    • It's early days and I'm still open to be convinced that I'm reading Zapatero entirely wrong here.
    • This was also how many regimental commanders read the mood of their men.
    • Jesus wants those who read the signs of nature to ponder the real signs of the times.
    • They stand either side of a pool of light, which can be read as iconographically significant.
    • It will in all likelihood be a compromise Cabinet, that is, if I am reading the signs right.
    • Yet it seems doctors in many parts of the country are still failing to read the signs and make the correct diagnosis.
    • Anyway, the point remains that Labour has abjectly failed to read the mood of the nation when it comes to tax cuts.
    Synonyms
    interpret, take, take to mean, construe, see, explain, understand
    1. 3.1no object, with adverbial (of a piece of writing) convey a specified impression to the reader.
      (书写材料)给读者留有特定印象
      the brief note read like a cry for help

      这一短笺读来宛若求救。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • The whole thing together makes a super piece which reads easily and educates us well.
      • While nobody wants to hinder a woman from becoming an engineer or scientist, it should be noted that the wording in this bill reads like a feminist playbook.
      • That whole piece reads like a comedy sketch.
      • At times the writing reads like a legal argument, at other times like a therapeutic recovery manual.
      • The text reads smoothly most of the time, yet occasionally an awkward construction captures the reader's attention.
      • What's really sad is that his opinion piece reads like a parody.
      • It reads like the suicide note not of a country alone, but of an entire civilization.
      • In any case, the arbitration is going forward and his piece reads like he does not expect the organisation to emerge unscathed.
      • I may have had comics at the front of my brain when writing that and perhaps comics are a little behind in terms of artistic exploration, but a lot of the time such writing reads like a cop-out or just plain lazy.
      • Although it's true that Fuller's reputation has never quite shaken off the hucksterism, and at times his writing reads like a very bad weblog, this was an extraordinary achievement.
      • Ende's poignant text reads like a journal of displacement and disillusion.
      • Most writing of this genre reads like scripted excerpts from therapy sessions, and is great for making the writer feel better.
      • The piece reads like it was edited by deleting large sections, and perhaps that's what happened.
      • Accompanied by a series of photographs of Harlem, the piece reads akin to the ramblings of a sentimental expatriate inundating new friends with photographs of a lost home.
      • Unfortunately his piece reads like a university essay and wouldn't convince too many apart from those who want to believe his theory.
      • He circles possibilities, though he feels it won't matter how his resume reads, what color tie he wears or how cordial he is in the interview.
      • His writing reads like he's thinking aloud, calmly at your shoulder, always coming up with variations and tips.
      • This reads like unedited notes that accidentally found their way into a finished story.
      • At times these read as lecture notes; at others more like a dramatic monologue.
      • Some of my mentees are working on their first extended piece of writing: if it reads well, that's fine by me.
  • 4Inspect and record the figure indicated on (a measuring instrument)

    检查并记录(测量仪器)上的数字

    I've come to read the gas meter

    我是来抄煤气表的。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I just had some woman come round to read my meter.
    • If you keep your PC on the floor like I do, that adds to the difficulty of reading the meter.
    • The 73 year old victim let a man into her home who claimed he needed to read the gas meter but she did not ask for identification at this stage.
    • The man is believed to have been operating in the area for some time and the victim of the assault had allowed him into her home in August to read her gas meter.
    • She says that the guy had come to read the gas meter earlier and the woman was not home.
    • That approach eats up staff time because they must read meters at fields, Fagan said.
    • A few weeks ago the fellow who reads the gas meter told me: ‘I love your work’.
    • The power company now only reads the meter every three months.
    • On that date we were not at home and did not know of anyone coming to read the meter.
    • In June, he called to read the meter at the girl's Basildon home while her mother was getting her ready for play school.
    • How on earth do the supply companies know how much gas or electricity we've used if they haven't actually read the meter?
    • Dragging myself out of bed to answer it, I discovered it was the gas man, wanting to read the meter.
    • He said that he understood that people get nervous but he was only here to read the gas meter.
    • The flat ruler keeps the fish stable even in a rocking boat, and the measurement is easy to read.
    • Crescenzio works as an inspector for the gas company: that is he reads meters.
    1. 4.1no object, with complement (of a measuring instrument) indicate a specified measurement or figure.
      (测量仪器)显示特定的量(或数字)
      the thermometer read 0° C

      温度计的显示温度为摄氏0°。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Cook, stirring as little as possible, until the thermometer reads 300 F degrees.
      • The thermometer outside the pharmacy reads 28 and as I squeeze off the first 100 shots of the day I quickly wet my t-shirt with sweat.
      • So if we ask what the quantum state is when the clock reads a certain time, there will be additional statistical uncertainties which grow with time.
      • The thermometer in my garden reads 39° C - is this a new record?
      • Remove from the heat immediately and let it sit for another two minutes, until the thermometer reads 182 degrees.
      • My vehicle was acting strangely with the gauges not reading the correct data.
      • In other words, it's more like petrol in a car: the engine will keep running just the same whether the petrol gauge reads a quarter, half, or full.
      • If the thermometer reads 98.6°F, then you don't have a fever and you can learn more about how heat makes other things expand.
      • The little green digits on the clock read one in the morning, and I am deathly tired.
      • Every day we wake up without James, every time the clock reads a certain time, we know that's the time the building came down, you know.
      • When the speed gauge reads you're flying at 200 mph, it actually feels that way
      • Finding a station that pumps CNG can be a chore, especially when the gauge reads zero pressure!
      • The viral load measure can read as high as a million, depending on the limits of the lab test.
      • But when the clock at the front does light up, it reads the same time as the clock at the back did!
      • For example, if the compass reads south as you face the office's front door, then the back part of the room is the north section, the left is east, and the right is west.
      • It's Friday morning, and the clock reads nine fifteen.
      • And as if all this wasn't enough, the meter on the auto read the same as everyday.
      • Linda said we were only stopped and out of the car for a few minutes at the most, and the time of the car's clock reads an extra 25 minutes of time.
      • The digital clock reads just shy of ten when his ice cream truck emerges from its underground parking, and at about 10: 30 he pulls up to the restaurant.
      • Travis looked down at his indicator which read thirty two enemies in the immediate area.
      Synonyms
      indicate, register, record, display, show, have as a reading, measure
  • 5British Study (an academic subject) at a university.

    〈主英〉(在大学)攻读,学习(课程)

    I'm reading English at Cambridge

    我正在剑桥大学学习英语。

    no object he went to Manchester to read for a BA in Economics

    他到曼彻斯特大学攻读经济学学士学位去了。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Initially he arrived at Newcastle on a gap year before proceeding to Durham University to read sports science.
    • Johnson's passion for wine began when he was at Cambridge University, where he read English.
    • The former Leeds Girls High School pupil from Roundhay, is now reading Oriental Studies at Cambridge University.
    • The oldest, a rocket scientist, is now a father himself, the youngest is off to university to read medicine.
    • Mr Hackett read history at Oxford University and had planned a career in teaching or lecturing.
    • As for me, I am entering my fourth year of university reading chemistry.
    • She became head prefect and had a place lined up at Bristol University to read English and drama.
    • She had decided to go into the museums sector while reading English Literature at university in Sheffield, her home city.
    • Mr Dyke was taken on by the university to read politics as a mature student in 1971 with one grade E A level.
    • Roberts went to university to read English and theatre studies, where her problem continued.
    • He was reading for an MSc in Security Management at Leicester University.
    • She was educated at Island School in Hong Kong before coming to England to read law at University College London.
    • I did, however, read history at university, so I know what the historians say.
    • So the group has devised several strategies to try to increase the number of students reading physics at universities.
    • By the time I got to university I was reading Marx and learning about how religion was the opium of the people.
    • Academically brilliant, she was due to go to Leeds University in September to read English and drama.
    • She grew up in Dublin and went to University College Dublin to read English and history.
    • She read microbiology at Leeds University and trained for the ministry on the Northern Ordination Course.
    • He then entered the University of Cambridge to read general studies before taking up physics.
    • After attending Edinburgh Academy he went to Sussex University to read English.
    Synonyms
    study, do, take
    North American &amp Australian/New Zealand major in
  • 6(of a computer) copy, transfer, or interpret (data)

    (计算机)复制,转移(数据)

    it attempts to read a floppy disk without regard to its format
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It reads a GLADE user interface description and instantiates its corresponding objects.
    • The smartctl t command starts a self test that reads every byte on the disk.
    • It is often surprising how one drive might not read a DVD, but another has no problem with it.
    • Once the connection is negotiated, it reads the client's HTTP request.
    • All it really means is that there is a script running that loads a web page, reads the HTML looking for certain attributes, and then reacts based on those attributes.
    • The program reads the information from your CD and imports it to your collection.
    • The software itself does not read information beyond its load location on the hard drive.
    • The time it takes to read a single byte at random is MUCH higher on a rambus system than on a DDR system.
    • If your computer is constantly reading from your hard disk, it's time to upgrade.
    • The video relay module reads a separate gigabit Ethernet network connection devoted to video.
    • It also reads floppy disk, Zip, Jaz, MO, IDE, and SCSI drives.
    • There is no hassle of manually decrypting a file before reading it or encrypting it again after modifying it.
    • Now, when I try to open attachments, I get an error message stating that the file cannot be read.
    • The fact that it makes no attempt to read the disks does give it some flexibility, though.
    • Depending on what the charge inside is, the computer reads the memory cell as a ‘1’ or ‘0’.
    • Once there was an additional message that the floppy disk could not be read either.
    • When Google reads a webpage, it views the text from the top left hand side of the page to the bottom right hand side of the page.
    • Then the system reads that information and casts objects at run time.
    • Computers read data tracks first, but the data track has to be located at the end of the CD.
    • A computer program reads the same scans the radiologist views, and the combined judgment of the computer and radiologist helps detect more cancers, the researchers found.
    1. 6.1with object and adverbial Enter or extract (data) in an electronic storage device.
      把(数据)读入电子储存装置;从电子储存装置中提取(数据)
      the commonest way of reading a file into the system

      将文件读入系统的最普通的方法。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • In order to fit more data on a disc, the limiting factor is the laser that reads the information off the disc.
      • It only works if you're already infected with an extractor that reads the code out of the images.
      • The DOM interface reads the entire XML file into memory and provides functions for traversing the XML hierarchy and retrieving the information.
      • By the same token, every value retrieval reads the information from disk.
      • The network loader reads the network boot kernel sent from the server into local memory and transfers control to it.
      • The DVD Player software reads it from the disk, which uses less power than the DVD drive.
      • The display reads information from the module and shows it using a total of ten LED digits.
      • I have written a basic Perl program that reads a list of URLs from a file, goes to the URL, looks for some information and then writes that information to another file.
      • The dæmon reads from a configuration file or can take command-line arguments.
      • If such a file exists, then the program reads it from disk and returns its content in an HTTP response.
      • Once a node reads data from storage, that data may remain in cache for some period of time, to accelerate future calls to that information.
      • This reads GPS from your serial port and makes it available on a network port.
      • The first copy is performed by the DMA engine, which reads file contents from the disk and stores them into a kernel address space buffer.
    2. 6.2 (of a device) obtain data from (light or other input)
      (装置)从(光或其他输入方式)中读出数据
      the microchip gives a unique code when read by the scanner
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Under ultra-violet light it glows and the DNA code can be read under a microscope.
      • The processor reads video stream from system memory, decodes it and writes it to graphics card memory.
      • The blue laser is finer and can read data that is packed more tightly on a disc.
      • Another switch will open a system or door only when its sensor reads the eyeballs of the owner.
      • Make sure you are reading the light from the moon and not any near by street lights etc.
      • Yes, like a supermarket scanner reads the bar code on a bag of potato chips.
      • The device can read the plates of passing cars, and check national records to see if the car or lorry is travelling untaxed.
      • The user simply assumes a natural firing grip with the finger alongside the holster, the scanner reads the fingerprint and releases the gun for use - all in the space of a second or less.
      • The camera reads the ambient lighting and then kicks out just enough flash to fill shadows but leave the picture natural-looking.
      • Fluorescent tags stick to variable spots; a detector reads their order as they flow past.
      • The leader, me, Gus, hands over the device that reads Val's signal to the two youngest members, along with two camels and basic survival supplies.
      • It is the ballots that were not counted because the machines could not read them that are important.
      • Like that of a phonograph record, the device's needle reads the bumps on the subject's surface, rising as it hits the peaks and dipping as it traces the valleys.
      • It registers the severity of the crash by reading the deceleration data from the airbag's sensor.
      • Additionally, a laser that reads a two-dimensional bar code placed on the device could be used to track the item.
      • You've got to orient your own hand exactly or the sensor won't read it correctly.
      • On the audio side, the device reads standard M3U, PLS and RMP playlists, along with MP3 and WMA files.
      • Simply press a button and a red laser reads the bar code of the desired item.
      • Even without a network, it should not be beyond the wit of man to knock up a system that machine reads the passport and checks it against a digitised watchlist.
      • If there is an outcropping of rock or tree branches in the way, the laser will read the target.
  • 7Present (a bill or other measure) before a legislative assembly.

    将(议案或其他法令)提交立法机构

    the bill was accordingly read a second time
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I move, That the Wellington City Empowering and Amendment Bill be now read a second time.
    • That has nothing to do with the question that this bill be read a first time.
    • A party vote was called for on the question, That the Aquaculture Reform Bill be now read a second time.
    • The bill was read a second time and referred to the Grand Committee on Trade.
    • A party vote was called for on the question, That the Oaths Modernisation Bill be now read a first time.
    • I move, That the New Zealand Council of Law Reporting Amendment Bill be now read a first time.
    • The bill being read a first time occurs after the vote on the first reading of the bill.
    • I move, That the Claims Settlement Bill be now read a second time.
    • A party vote was called for on the question, That the Families Commission Bill be now read a third time.
    • A personal vote was called for on the question, That the Death with Dignity Bill be now read a first time.
  • 8Hear and understand the words of (someone speaking on a radio transmitter)

    收听到,听见(无线电发射机里的说话者)的话

    ‘Do you read me? Over.’

    “能听见我说的话吗?完毕。”

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Science fiction is not obsolete - do you read me?
    • Hello, Earth, Do You Read Me? How might the first intelligence from an extraterrestrial civilization be transmitted to earth?
noun riːdrid
British
  • 1usually in singular A period or act of reading something.

    〈主英〉一段阅读时间;阅读

    I was having a quiet read of the newspaper

    我在静静地读报。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The newspaper published two other pieces connected to the visit that I thought were well worth a read.
    • You may need to subscribe to see the survey but, if you do, it's well worth a read.
    • It is well worth a read and many of the arguments here will be relevant to the Japanese situation too.
    • This is a fascinating book and well worth a read, especially to anyone living in Japan.
    • McCullagh's unique perspective on the first day of Bell's trial is posted here, and well worth a read.
    • As I was buying the drinks in the pub she had got it out and was having a read.
    • So, today would seem to be a good day for a literary quiz, but more a tiny read than a big read.
    • The book is thought provoking, sometimes challenging and well worth a read.
    • I found a programme someone had dropped under my chair and had a read.
    • It is much longer, so give it a read and tell me what you think.
    • It won't make any difference to what I write, but hey, you might be fooled long enough to have a read.
    • I've removed names but take a read… it's good to see the boys are keeping their spirits up.
    • It is realistic in plot, characterisation and story line and is well worth a read.
    • This review makes it sound worth a read, so that's yet another addition to my wishlist.
    • It's only out in hardback at the moment, which means it is a little expensive. But it's worth the read.
    • As often, Oliver raises some other uncomfortable questions - well worth a read.
    • His views on charity are also interesting and certainly worth a read.
    • Have a read of the scholarly works on the conversion of the Franks and compare and contrast with Pol Pot.
    • If you fancy having a go at this yourself, have a read of our full review
    • We each had a read of the relevant paragraphs and had to agree that it actually summed him up quite well.
    Synonyms
    perusal, study, scan, scrutiny
    look (at), browse (through), glance (through), leaf (through), flick (through), skim (through)
    1. 1.1informal with adjective A book considered in terms of its readability.
      〈非正式〉(有可读性的)书,读物
      the book is a thoroughly entertaining read

      该书纯粹是一本娱乐性读物。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • If that is the case, then he was wrong, for as an exploration of that war in its widest sense, it is a gripping read.
      • It's a great read, only suffering from a severe lack of relevant illustrations.
      • I have recommended it to numerous people who have purchased it and agree that it is a staggering read!
      • If the truth be told, many have not read it, claiming that they hardly see it as a beach read.
      • Yet this subculture is engrossing enough to make this scholarly book a pretty good read.
      • It's an intoxicating read, and one which eventually develops a rhythm all its own.
      • I pretty much had an extensive list going already, but I always like to hear what other people are reading and I was able to add some fun books to the suggested reads.
      • For a book of the life of a man for who not a lot happened, it is a compelling read.
      • When one of the narrators in a novel is the ghost of a girl who fell to her death in a dumb waiter, you know it's not going to be an ordinary read.
      • Hard men making hard decisions is never going to make for an easy read.
      • Apart from being a splendid read, Finola O'Kane's study may prove a useful corrective to that.
      • Fitzgerald is one of hurling's most likeable characters and the book is an entertaining read.
      • The cards feature local Ilkley characters and their favourite reads, the book they are currently reading and the first book they read through choice.
      • Some books are okay reads after you have read everything else.
      • The man is a catalyst for what happens in the story: I suspect that his own backstory would make for a gripping read.
      • Nevertheless, the wide variety within this collection makes it an enjoyable read.
      • Her spiky style and confident handling of the source material creates a book which is more of a literary event than a quiet read.
      • It is about a Scot in London by a Scot and it was a great read.
      • And not only were these books wonderful reads, but the author's heart was always in the right place, with a special sympathy for the misfits and the emotionally wounded.
      • Let's just say this funny, thoughtful, intelligent and crazy book is one of the best all-purpose reads of 2003.
    2. 1.2US A person's interpretation of something.
      〈美〉解释,阐明
      their read on the national situation may be correct

      他们对国际形势的阐述可能是正确的。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Tomorrow night, our Paula Zahn will try to get a read on the undecided voters in that state.
      • It seems that maybe they did have a good read on the will of the people after all.
      • He hasn't had enough appearances this season to get a good read on his bat speed.
      • Tone and direction oscillate several times, making it hard to get a read on the series.
      • When he tried to get a read on my head I invited him to take his shopping elsewhere.
      • You never quite get a read on who's being fake and who's being real.
      • My read of the story tells me that this man is easily offended and a persistent complainer.
      • We watched for about twenty minutes trying to get a read on what the skies were doing.
      • I just need some help parsing out the signals, trying to get a clear read on this situation.
      • If we had inspectors in the country we could keep at least a limited read on what sort of progress he was making.

Phrases

  • read between the lines

    • Look for or discover a meaning that is implied rather than explicitly stated.

      从字里行间(或言辞中)体会隐含之意,领会言外之意

      reading between the lines, I think Clare needs money
      Example sentencesExamples
      • One rather gathers, reading between the lines, that he dismissed Piggy as a fool.
      • He does not have to say what he means literally - he reads between the lines and so should you!
      • I just assumed readers would read between the lines.
      • However, reading between the lines, one can discover criticism of army doctors and the army authorities in general, who above all wanted to maintain discipline and return soldiers to the battlefield.
      • Instead, managers must learn to read between the lines or interpret subtle hints that a problem has developed.
      • But increasingly we prisoners of war sensed, from our captors' demeanor and reading between the lines of propaganda broadcasts, a sinister force surfacing.
      • Even so, one must read between the lines to discover the full impact on her of the long joyless union with Thomas.
      • Under Stalin, and after, Soviet newspapers tended to exhort rather than inform, but perceptive readers could read between the lines.
      • Her entry into undergraduate life hasn't been entirely easy; my reading between the lines of her anecdotes suggests one or two of her lecturers haven't responded well to the polite but complex questions she asks in class.
      • The interpreter reads between the lines of total and, partial knowledge, ever open to deeper understanding as it unfurls between them.
      Synonyms
      infer from, interpolate from, assume from, attribute to
  • read someone like a book

    • Understand someone's thoughts and motives easily.

      了解…的心思(或动机);对…了如指掌

      Example sentencesExamples
      • His mother - and she could read him like a book - had driven him to the barracks gates just seven hours earlier.
      • How great it is to have a best friend who reads you like a book.
      • Then again, he had known me my whole life and he could read me like a book, what I was feeling, and what I was thinking.
      • I know you higher-ups like to hide that sort of thing from us, but I can read you like a book, sir.
      • I never conferred with Alison about Faye so she left alone, however Amy could read me like a book and whenever I was feeling down she'd guess it.
      • Some of those have crowed before that they can read me like a book, that they're great with people and can get to the root of any problem.
      • I had to answer no, whilst wildly panicking that I could be read like a book -.
      • He is the only person who understands me and can read me like a book without having to turn to page one.
      • He stared at her, his piercing, penetrating gaze shooting right through her, reading her like a book.
      • You keep forgetting, we can read you like a book.
      Synonyms
      not be deceived by, not be taken in by, be wise to, get the measure of, have the measure of, read like a book, fathom, penetrate, realize, understand
  • read someone's mind (or thoughts)

    • Discern what someone is thinking.

      猜透…的心思,知道…在想些什么

      he nodded, as though he could read her mind and approved of her attitude
      Example sentencesExamples
      • No, she doesn't have eyes in the back of her head, but she could be reading your mind.
      • Anyone claiming to be a mind reader has definitely not read my mind correctly on this one.
      • When I ask him what sparked his needle-picking mission, he reads my mind.
      • As if reading my mind, Rafael rises from the conference table and says, ‘I swear I don't have a mistress in Beijing.’
      • You think of a number, the computer reads your mind and guesses the number.
      • Ms Lauren reads my mind and posts questions on a topic I've been thinking about recently, snobbery.
      • But I hate him because he always seems to be reading my mind and telling me what I think of myself.
      • It was like he was reading my mind and playing it back so I have to think it was a dream.
      • A paralysed man in the US has become the first person to benefit from a brain chip that reads his mind.
      • For perhaps, even as you may be watching a feat performed by a magician, he can be reading your mind.
  • read my lips

    • informal Listen carefully (used to emphasize the importance of the speaker's words)

      〈北美,非正式〉请认真听(用来强调所说的话的重要性或表达说话人迫切的心情)

      forget about him—read my lips, he wasn't worth it
      Example sentencesExamples
      • David's taking off for Australia this Saturday, and we - read my lips - have NO MORE PHILOSOPHY CLASSES.
      • Where are the headlines that says, you know, read my lips, no more surplus?
      • Mr. President, in all due respect, Mr. President, read my lips: Our vote is not for sale.
      • And anyway you say ‘the guys’ as though you are all great friends, stop, look at me and read my lips!
      • It imposes no more cost - read my lips, no more cost - on employers.
      • Hey read my lips,’ I said pointing to myself, ‘Friends.’
  • you wouldn't read about it

    • informal Used to express incredulity, disgust, or ruefulness.

      〈澳/新西兰,非正式〉太离奇了(用来表示怀疑、厌恶、悲伤)

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Beryl's had so many lives you wouldn't read about it.
      • YOU wouldn't read about the problems this bumbling TV host has had settling into the job.

Phrasal Verbs

  • read something into

    • Attribute a meaning or significance to (something) that it may not in fact possess.

      把…加进对…的理解中去;对…做某种解释

      was I reading too much into his behaviour?

      我是否对他的行为做了过于武断的解释?

      Example sentencesExamples
      • That's not going to stop me reading morals into it though.
      • I can remember becoming so paranoid that I was reading signs into everything.
      • It might be argued that it is far-fetched to read such significance into a political speech and a generalised endorsement of that by a linked organisation.
      • She told officers that was why he went on TV and that he told her: ‘The press are just reading things into it.’
      • Others were less gloomy, reading a cheering message into the fact that cricket was played at all.
      • I'm not claiming that; they're simply reading things into my argument that are not there.
      • The plot behind the film is very thought provoking if you start reading the religious implications into it.
      • Please, that is really reading a lot into something that is not that significant.
      • I think that too much fact can be read into fiction.
      • Plenty of people seem to be reading a lot into the Swedish rejection of the single currency.
      Synonyms
      infer from, interpolate from, assume from, attribute to
  • read someone out of

    • Formally expel someone from (an organization)

      〈主美〉(将某人从组织、团体)开除,除名

      a lot of people got read out of the churches
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Insurgents Denounce Attempt to Read Them Out of Party as Unfair and Malicious.
      • Some African Americans treated him as badly as Islamic fundamentalists treated Salman Rushdie, pretty much calling him a traitor and a heretic and reading him out of the race.
      • We cannot read them out of the definition, can we?
      • I am saying that younger Catholics continue to pack their faith on journeys to uncharted cultural and spiritual territories, and that we might wait before reading them out of the congregation.
      • You and everybody else were reading me out of this.
      • Young man, who are you, and by what right do you think you can read me out of the church.
  • read up on something (or read something up)

    • Acquire information about a particular subject by studying it intensively.

      研读,攻读;系统地研究(某一科目)

      she spent the time reading up on antenatal care

      她将那些时间投入到系统研究产前保健问题。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Well, I see you've been reading up on the subject.
      • What you need to do is to get in the right frame of mind by reading up on the subject.
      • I suggest that you read up on this subject, Joan.
      • With the grand opening of Hong Kong Disneyland, people must want to read up on the subject.
      • Before taking it, I insist on reading up on the subject.
      • You can get all of the information here, so go read up on it and sign up!
      • Minutes earlier he had made reference to ‘some journalists ‘who take the time to read up on their subjects.’
      • He wants parents to discuss drug issues with their children and read up on the subject before a swab sample is suggested.
      • At the pre-natal stage both parents should read up on the subject and have a fair idea of what to expect once the child arrives.
      • That's right, I was reading up on a study done there.
      Synonyms
      study, get up

Origin

Old English rǣdan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch raden and German raten 'advise, guess'. Early senses included 'advise' and 'interpret (a riddle or dream') (see rede).

  • Alfred the Great, king of Wessex between 871 and 899, did much to promote education in his kingdom, and the word read is first found in his writings. The word goes back to a Germanic root meaning ‘advise, guess, interpret’, and Old English riddle comes from the same root. The three Rs (early 19th century) have been ‘reading, (w)riting, and (a)rithmetic’, regarded as the fundamentals of elementary education. The expression is said to have originated as a toast proposed by the banker and politician Sir William Curtis (1752–1829). Read my lips was most famously used by the first President Bush in 1998. In making a campaign pledge not to raise taxes, he said ‘Read my lips: no new taxes.’ If you want to give someone a severe warning or reprimand, you may read the riot act to them. The Riot Act was passed by the British government in 1715 to prevent civil disorder in the wake of the Jacobite rebellion of that year. The Act made it an offence for a group of twelve or more people to refuse to disperse within an hour of being ordered to do so, after a magistrate had read a particular section of the Act to them. This created something of a problem, as reading legal language aloud is not the easiest thing to do in the middle of a genuine riot—and defendants might claim later that they had not heard the key words. The Act failed to prevent a number of major disturbances over the years, but was not repealed until 1967. Riot (Middle English) originally meant dissolute living and comes from an Old French word meaning ‘to quarrel’.

Rhymes

abed, ahead, bed, behead, Birkenhead, bled, bread, bred, coed, cred, crossbred, dead, dread, Ed, embed, Enzed, fed, fled, Fred, gainsaid, head, infrared, ked, lead, led, Med, misled, misread, Ned, outspread, premed, pure-bred, red, redd, said, samoyed, shed, shred, sked, sled, sped, Spithead, spread, stead, ted, thread, tread, underbred, underfed, wed accede, bead, Bede, bleed, breed, cede, concede, creed, deed, Eid, exceed, feed, Gide, God speed, greed, he'd, heed, impede, interbreed, intercede, Jamshid, knead, lead, mead, Mede, meed, misdeed, mislead, misread, need, plead, proceed, rede, reed, Reid, retrocede, screed, secede, seed, she'd, speed, stampede, steed, succeed, supersede, Swede, tweed, weak-kneed, we'd, weed

Definition of read in US English:

read

verbrēdrid
[with object]
  • 1Look at and comprehend the meaning of (written or printed matter) by mentally interpreting the characters or symbols of which it is composed.

    读,阅读(书面材料,印刷材料)

    it's the best novel I've ever read

    这是我读过的最好的小说。

    I never learned to read music

    我从未学过识谱。

    Emily read over her notes

    埃米莉把笔记看了一遍。

    no object I'll go to bed and read for a while

    我要上床读一会儿书。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He read over what had happened and then read the email from Neil that she had attached.
    • He's lying on the bed, reading the paper as I put on my makeup.
    • Alex was reading the papers in bed one Sunday morning when the smoke alarm fitted outside her bedroom door went off.
    • It's not a good look watching grown men and women openly weeping while reading a tabloid newspaper!
    • Nobody has ever read the small print of a mobile-phone insurance contract.
    • When she complained that she wouldn't have time she was told not to worry and just to skim read the papers.
    • He was reading the newspaper and he looked up at me and said in a very serious tone of voice.
    • He could see his poem, deeply creased now as if it had been read over and over, lying on the floor by his feet.
    • Far too much of my work involved reading old newspapers and regional magazines on microfilm.
    • The nature of these disclosures, and the colorful language used, strongly support the belief that no one ever reads this material.
    • It just seems to be one long tirade on how to read stuff and then write it.
    • I know all the stories and the names of the characters from my time reading the Bible as a child.
    • Still, since only the two of us ever read this stuff, it barely matters, does it?
    • Sunday morning I put him down for a nap and I stayed in bed reading the paper.
    • Clearly, the notion of reading everything ever written is now entirely preposterous.
    • I cannot read the characters you sent to me, but I can see the web site address.
    • If anyone can read the characters on the sword itself, please let me know what they say.
    • In all of the books she had ever read the main character always had some sort of friend.
    • Consumers should know what is good for them and make it a habit to at least read the ingredients written on the packets.
    • You don't need a computer to read a magazine or newspaper on the bus on your way to work.
    Synonyms
    peruse, study, scrutinize, look through
    decipher, make out, make sense of, interpret, understand, comprehend
    1. 1.1no object Have the ability to look at and comprehend the meaning of written or printed matter.
      有阅读能力
      only three of the girls could read and none could write

      只有三个姑娘识字,没有一个会写字。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Most girls were not expected to use their schooling beyond the ability to read, so they didn't pay it much attention.
      • Most lose or never develop the ability to read and write in their native language.
      • It seems somehow odd now to recall that none of these three could read or write, and that they did not speak English.
      • We are also in the three top-performing countries on mathematical ability, reading, and literacy.
      • Until about a year ago, none of them could read and write; now they are studying mathematics.
      • A stroke can affect your ability to read and write and even if you can talk, sometimes the words don't come out in the correct order.
      • They're slow at it, and they never achieve full ability to read quickly and automatically.
      • Patients may quickly lose their ability to read or to see the faces of their grandchildren.
      • She said the greater the levels of exposure, the greater the decline in reading and reasoning ability.
      • By high school the typical boy is a year and a half behind the typical girl in reading and writing.
      • After all, if you stand in front of a room and tell everyone that no one reads what you write online, maybe the problem isn't with the users or the medium.
      • Lione quickly caught the attention of the royals with her ability to read and write.
      • The world operates and revolves around reading and having the ability to comprehend what is read.
      • Her mother couldn't understand why she wanted to bury herself away in her bedroom, reading and writing and spending time on her own.
      • Figures published last week showed alarming gaps in children's ability to read and write.
      • The ability to read and write, an experience of debate: these are essential to democracy.
      • It is clear that higher education is a sector predicated upon the ability to read and write accurately.
      • Anyway it was his own silly fault for not reading what I wrote.
      • There are still people leaving school without the ability to read or write.
      • Both tests will assess the listening, speaking, reading and writing abilities of students.
    2. 1.2 Speak (the written or printed matter that one is reading) aloud, typically to another person.
      (尤指向另一人)朗读,宣读(书面材料,印刷材料)
      the charges against him were read out

      有人宣读了对他的指控。

      no object I'll read to you if you like

      如果你喜欢我就读给你听。

      with two objects his mother read him a bedtime story

      他母亲给他读了一个催眠故事。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Standing before those who had come to read out their poems, she recollected images about poetry reading sessions.
      • They came over to look over her shoulder as she read the scroll aloud, unrolling it.
      • She wrote letters to Christian's large family for him often, and when a letter arrived for him she'd read it aloud.
      • The three tellers read each ballot successively, and the third one reads the name aloud.
      • Please remember these qualifications are read over the telephone during the interview.
      • They guys are looking at us with a mixture of curiosity and fear so I decide to read the letter aloud.
      • The Duke hands the letter to the clerk, who reads it aloud.
      • How about nobody sings, nobody recites, nobody reads aloud, nobody speaks or tap dances or whatever it is the great media event people are planning.
      • He performs his poems and children join in, writing their own poetry or reading his aloud.
      • This time, Gerard and Kathleen caught up to us as I was reading the card aloud.
      • Mum or dad reads the story, while the child follows the pictures - and occasionally makes that little jump of recognition when they realise the characters they are looking at make up one of the words mum or dad has just read out.
      • Letters and cards were read thanking the branch for Christmas gifts given to older members who are unable to attend meetings.
      • It is basically a long prose poem meant to be read aloud, and I could only take so much of that at one time.
      • He reads it aloud, and then proceeds to asks us the riddle.
      • She didn't just show it to her, she ended up reading it all aloud and was rewarded with the first real chuckle we've had from her for weeks.
      • She was glad now that her History teacher humiliated her by taking that letter and reading it aloud to the class.
      • This completed the case for the prosecution and the usual caution was read over to the prisoners.
      • Proud of himself and unable to contain his joy, he began to read the letter aloud.
      • Perhaps she stands in front of them to prevent her mother or her kid from reading them aloud.
      • They wrote essays, or lectures, or sermons and they read them aloud.
      Synonyms
      read out, read aloud, say aloud, recite, declaim
    3. 1.3 Habitually read (a particular newspaper or journal).
      (习惯性地)读(报),看(杂志)
      Example sentencesExamples
      • But then no one reads a newspaper in the same way as they do a magazine. Newspapers primarily inform.
      • I don't think it will come as any great surprise to you that I've stopped reading newspapers.
      • Getting him to sit down at story time proved impossible but by the age of four he was reading newspapers.
      • You all want to read newspapers, you all want the products of the forest, somewhere the trees have to be grown.
      • She believes that teens in the rural Jamaica can help the industry by reading the newspapers and being aware of what is going on.
      • My college tenured several professors who instilled in students a sharp guilt about reading newspapers.
      • He read Jewish newspapers to learn the business of emigration to Palestine and other countries.
      • He doesn't read the newspaper and is proud of it.
      • Even the simple act of reading a newspaper is fraught for you.
      • After months in the fields helping the farmer tend cows, Martin started reading the newspapers.
      • Right now, however, it is doubly hard to be a black woman, especially one who reads newspapers or, heaven forbid, happens to be remotely newsworthy.
      • I do read newspapers, and you can ask about my politics and I will tell you.
      • She also enjoyed reading the newspapers and neighbours calling in for a cup of tea and chatting about old times.
      • Ireland is no madder than England - as anyone who reads English tabloid newspapers will know.
      • Mr Nairn is described as living in Ireland, but clearly reads the Scottish newspapers with a diligence they do not always deserve and has a tendency to keep cuttings of congenial opinions.
      • He reads newspapers and law journals, and would like to improve Grahamstown's public amenities.
      • We read newspapers and we see certain schools with poor results every year.
      • In print advertising, you are looking at everybody who reads the magazine or newspaper.
      • In the absence of good Muslim newspapers Muslims are compelled to read other newspapers.
      • So we were reading the newspapers and scraping the barrels of our own experiences.
    4. 1.4no object, with complement (of a passage, text, or sign) contain or consist of specified words; have a certain wording.
      (段落,文本,标志)载有,写着
      the placard read “We want justice.”

      标语牌上写着“我们要公平”。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Television is the only place where, as the sign reads in Claudia's apartment, ‘It really happened.’
      • A label on one of the cans reads: ‘No matter if the product is used up or not, don't bump it.
      • Pay Here, reads the sign in the National Park's Grassington car park.
      • We were in a corridor with a door at either end, each door has a sign, one reads Undermountain, the other, Rappan Athuk.
      • A passage in the book reads: ‘Now the Tree of Life extends from above downwards, and is the sun which illuminates all.’
      • After another hour of travel, we finally saw a sign reading that the town of Tol is five more miles away.
      • One sign reads, ‘You've got to have balls to conquer the world.’
      • He said: ‘There is one sign which reads Taxis Only but that is covered with graffiti.’
      • The third floor sign reads: Floor 3: These men have highly paid jobs, love kids, are extremely good looking, and help with the housework.
      • Outside my niece's old primary school, a very prominent sign reads: ‘You are entering a gun-free zone.’
      • The religious text reads, ‘Before thy throne I now appear’, and it seems a most appropriate conclusion to a fantastic life of music.
      • One day, he finds the manuscript left for him with a note which reads: ‘Welcome to our ranks!
      • Flowers left at the spot are accompanied by a note that reads: ‘You were my guru and always put a smile on my face.’
      • T-shirts are also available, the sign reads on.
      • One passage reads: ‘I regard personal disloyalty as the worst crime of all, and have killed some guilty of it without a qualm.’
      • At Larapinta School they've got a sign that reads STOP, THINK, DO.
      • A statement on the band's website reads: ‘We will be doing a press tour in July for Europe.’
      • The campaign features a series a posters showing empty parts of a house with street signs reading Bedroom, Stairs and Hallway.
      • Just as we were leaving, the teashop put out a sign reading: Now baking: Yorkshire Rascals.
      • On the right-hand side, stark text reads thus: ‘What, we ask, might this trigger economically?’
    5. 1.5 Used to indicate that a particular word in a text or passage is incorrect and that another should be substituted for it.
      用于订正用词讹误改作,换用
      for madam read madman

      改"madam"为"madman"。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • For Scholes at domestic level, read van der Vaart and others in the national team.
    6. 1.6read forno object (of an actor) audition for (a part in a play or film).
      (演员)试演(戏剧或电影中的角色)
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He has the uncanny ability to master the American accent which, along with his smile and look, helped set him apart from the other actors reading for the part.
      • The rest of the roles are filled by auditions of invited actors reading for specific parts and some by general auditions.
      • He said no - but as he was leaving the audition he was asked to read for a show.
  • 2Discover (information) by reading it in a written or printed source.

    读到,获悉(信息)

    he was arrested yesterday—I read it in the paper

    他昨日被捕了——我是从报上看到的。

    no object I read about the course in a magazine

    我在一本杂志上了解到了有关这门课程的信息。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I read with interest of your concerns about the Greens' progressive drug policy.
    • The Boks of today are more interested in writing history than reading about it.
    • It's appropriate to set the record straight so that anyone who read the information in your report knows the truth.
    • I read about it in a book but cant find real proof.
    • It is not board level, because I have read in another submission there are no black women at board level.
    • The question that came up for me reading your information about SARS has to do with numbers of cases.
    1. 2.1as adjective, with submodifier read Having a specified level of knowledge as a result of reading.
      Ada was well read in French literature

      艾达对法国和德国文学涉猎甚广。

      he is a man deeply read in history, philosophy, and theology
      Example sentencesExamples
      • She loved art, travel, and parties, and read widely in Russian and French as well as English.
      • I was glad I had read widely and learnt poetry and parts of the Book Of Common Prayer by rote.
      • People are quite well informed and well read in India and aware of everything.
      • He has read widely and in depth, he writes well and he has an eye for the colourful phrase.
      • Widely read, and a lover of music and languages, she was attending French classes up until her death.
      • I can see why he's both beloved amongst geeks and starting to become more widely read.
      • But Eagleton, one of the most widely read theorists alive, knows all this, so what does he mean?
      • Could this be because Sebald had read widely in the subject and could see things that we can't?
      • He was widely read and took a keen interest in history, current affairs, politics and religion.
      • So he was a highly, very widely read guy and he had a very sound philosophy behind all the nonsense that was going on.
      • Underneath that homeless-person exterior is an articulate, widely read man.
      • He has read widely in the archives, and listened afresh to the music of the period.
      • If not a grindingly deep scholar, Mr Holland has read widely and absorbed the literature intelligently.
      • He began to experiment with verse from an early age, and read widely.
      • The basis of Hutton's work was observation, but he had read widely the literature available.
    2. 2.2 Discern (a fact, emotion, or quality) in someone's eyes or expression.
      看出,觉察出,洞悉(事实,感情,品质)
      she looked down, terrified that he would read fear on her face

      她低下头,害怕他觉察到自己脸上的恐惧表情。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • It's very hard at the moment to read that mood, but it's uncertain, slightly fearful, unconfident.
      • She was reading his emotions, the ones that were bottled up inside without use.
      • He laughed and looked at his plate, as if he was embarrassed for reading my emotions wrong.
      • Not for the first time, Monique was very glad that he could not read emotions like she could, or thoughts, like Lawrence.
      • Brent studied her face, he could read every emotion and thought she had at that moment.
      • Kyle can read the anguish as she moves on again, her unwillingness to let a good man die.
      • Sara sighed and lowered her head in order to prevent Gabe from reading the emotions, which leaked out of her tired eyes.
      • He showed nothing in his jet black eyes, not that I was used to reading the emotions of birds.
      • Gregory reached out subconsciously with his mind, reading her feelings of horror and fear.
      • But how can you read the clues as to what's going on in the boss's mind - or behind the scenes?
      • He just surveyed me with those dark eyes that seemed to read my emotions, and kept on driving.
      • It's hard to read the feelings of others when you still haven't figured out your own.
      • Sarah squinted her eyes in curiosity trying hard to read the information from his face.
      • She could not read the emotions and raised her hot fingers to trace the outline of her cheek.
      • They bored into mine and read my fears even before I had the courage to think them.
      • He could read the shame in Drake's voice and had a pretty fair idea of what had transpired.
      • He had learned to read her moods and expressions well in the past year since they had married.
      • I wanted to read every emotion going through his head through those eyes.
      • Even if they can't speak another's language, they can still read their emotions.
      • But Keren to his annoyance had a way of reading his moods and using them to his advantage.
  • 3Understand or interpret the nature or significance of.

    解释,阐释;解答,理解

    he didn't dare look away, in case this was read as a sign of weakness

    他不敢移开视线,以防被视为软弱无能。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He was a man who was way ahead of his time and read the signs of the times that were later to be the basis of Vatican 2.
    • The desert is an unforgiving place to those who cannot read its signs or understand its subtle warnings.
    • We need to know the story being played out before us and, instinctively, start to read the clues.
    • They stand either side of a pool of light, which can be read as iconographically significant.
    • I apologise to Jack Robertson for reading him the wrong way, although I am not sure I follow all of what he says.
    • This was also how many regimental commanders read the mood of their men.
    • They would see reading art by understanding the symbols as an easy way of interpreting culture.
    • The evidence before me establishes that that is how it was read and understood by the Claimants, and in my view reasonably so.
    • What will people do then, being able to read their love lives, the stock market, war and peace all in the stars?
    • After your date reads the first clue, they will be on an exciting adventure to find you.
    • Yet it seems doctors in many parts of the country are still failing to read the signs and make the correct diagnosis.
    • As such, the glories of nature can be read as harbingers of a future still arriving.
    • Jesus wants those who read the signs of nature to ponder the real signs of the times.
    • Anyway, the point remains that Labour has abjectly failed to read the mood of the nation when it comes to tax cuts.
    • When the voices speak to him (or he reads the significance of Viking remains), they tell him how to get on with his poetry, not how the rest of the people from the North can get on with life.
    • The guy can still throw the ball, he understands how to read defenses and he can move the chains.
    • To do this they turned to techniques developed by Freudian psychoanalysts to read the inner desires of the new self.
    • Perhaps I read it wrong, but I would strongly encourage you not to make blanket statements.
    • It's early days and I'm still open to be convinced that I'm reading Zapatero entirely wrong here.
    • It will in all likelihood be a compromise Cabinet, that is, if I am reading the signs right.
    Synonyms
    interpret, take, take to mean, construe, see, explain, understand
    1. 3.1no object, with adverbial (of a piece of writing) convey a specified impression to the reader.
      (书写材料)给读者留有特定印象
      the brief note read like a cry for help

      这一短笺读来宛若求救。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • At times the writing reads like a legal argument, at other times like a therapeutic recovery manual.
      • Most writing of this genre reads like scripted excerpts from therapy sessions, and is great for making the writer feel better.
      • Although it's true that Fuller's reputation has never quite shaken off the hucksterism, and at times his writing reads like a very bad weblog, this was an extraordinary achievement.
      • In any case, the arbitration is going forward and his piece reads like he does not expect the organisation to emerge unscathed.
      • Accompanied by a series of photographs of Harlem, the piece reads akin to the ramblings of a sentimental expatriate inundating new friends with photographs of a lost home.
      • The whole thing together makes a super piece which reads easily and educates us well.
      • He circles possibilities, though he feels it won't matter how his resume reads, what color tie he wears or how cordial he is in the interview.
      • At times these read as lecture notes; at others more like a dramatic monologue.
      • That whole piece reads like a comedy sketch.
      • His writing reads like he's thinking aloud, calmly at your shoulder, always coming up with variations and tips.
      • What's really sad is that his opinion piece reads like a parody.
      • Ende's poignant text reads like a journal of displacement and disillusion.
      • Unfortunately his piece reads like a university essay and wouldn't convince too many apart from those who want to believe his theory.
      • The text reads smoothly most of the time, yet occasionally an awkward construction captures the reader's attention.
      • The piece reads like it was edited by deleting large sections, and perhaps that's what happened.
      • It reads like the suicide note not of a country alone, but of an entire civilization.
      • This reads like unedited notes that accidentally found their way into a finished story.
      • While nobody wants to hinder a woman from becoming an engineer or scientist, it should be noted that the wording in this bill reads like a feminist playbook.
      • I may have had comics at the front of my brain when writing that and perhaps comics are a little behind in terms of artistic exploration, but a lot of the time such writing reads like a cop-out or just plain lazy.
      • Some of my mentees are working on their first extended piece of writing: if it reads well, that's fine by me.
  • 4Inspect and record the figure indicated on (a measuring instrument)

    检查并记录(测量仪器)上的数字

    I've come to read the gas meter

    我是来抄煤气表的。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • She says that the guy had come to read the gas meter earlier and the woman was not home.
    • If you keep your PC on the floor like I do, that adds to the difficulty of reading the meter.
    • A few weeks ago the fellow who reads the gas meter told me: ‘I love your work’.
    • Crescenzio works as an inspector for the gas company: that is he reads meters.
    • Dragging myself out of bed to answer it, I discovered it was the gas man, wanting to read the meter.
    • On that date we were not at home and did not know of anyone coming to read the meter.
    • The flat ruler keeps the fish stable even in a rocking boat, and the measurement is easy to read.
    • The power company now only reads the meter every three months.
    • How on earth do the supply companies know how much gas or electricity we've used if they haven't actually read the meter?
    • That approach eats up staff time because they must read meters at fields, Fagan said.
    • The man is believed to have been operating in the area for some time and the victim of the assault had allowed him into her home in August to read her gas meter.
    • He said that he understood that people get nervous but he was only here to read the gas meter.
    • I just had some woman come round to read my meter.
    • In June, he called to read the meter at the girl's Basildon home while her mother was getting her ready for play school.
    • The 73 year old victim let a man into her home who claimed he needed to read the gas meter but she did not ask for identification at this stage.
    1. 4.1no object, with complement (of a measuring instrument) indicate a specified measurement or figure.
      (测量仪器)显示特定的量(或数字)
      the thermometer read 0° C

      温度计的显示温度为摄氏0°。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • It's Friday morning, and the clock reads nine fifteen.
      • In other words, it's more like petrol in a car: the engine will keep running just the same whether the petrol gauge reads a quarter, half, or full.
      • When the speed gauge reads you're flying at 200 mph, it actually feels that way
      • Cook, stirring as little as possible, until the thermometer reads 300 F degrees.
      • Travis looked down at his indicator which read thirty two enemies in the immediate area.
      • The viral load measure can read as high as a million, depending on the limits of the lab test.
      • Finding a station that pumps CNG can be a chore, especially when the gauge reads zero pressure!
      • The thermometer outside the pharmacy reads 28 and as I squeeze off the first 100 shots of the day I quickly wet my t-shirt with sweat.
      • And as if all this wasn't enough, the meter on the auto read the same as everyday.
      • My vehicle was acting strangely with the gauges not reading the correct data.
      • If the thermometer reads 98.6°F, then you don't have a fever and you can learn more about how heat makes other things expand.
      • So if we ask what the quantum state is when the clock reads a certain time, there will be additional statistical uncertainties which grow with time.
      • But when the clock at the front does light up, it reads the same time as the clock at the back did!
      • The thermometer in my garden reads 39° C - is this a new record?
      • Linda said we were only stopped and out of the car for a few minutes at the most, and the time of the car's clock reads an extra 25 minutes of time.
      • For example, if the compass reads south as you face the office's front door, then the back part of the room is the north section, the left is east, and the right is west.
      • The little green digits on the clock read one in the morning, and I am deathly tired.
      • The digital clock reads just shy of ten when his ice cream truck emerges from its underground parking, and at about 10: 30 he pulls up to the restaurant.
      • Remove from the heat immediately and let it sit for another two minutes, until the thermometer reads 182 degrees.
      • Every day we wake up without James, every time the clock reads a certain time, we know that's the time the building came down, you know.
      Synonyms
      indicate, register, record, display, show, have as a reading, measure
  • 5British Study (an academic subject) at a university.

    〈主英〉(在大学)攻读,学习(课程)

    I'm reading English at Cambridge

    我正在剑桥大学学习英语。

    no object he went to Manchester to read for a BA in Economics

    他到曼彻斯特大学攻读经济学学士学位去了。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • She became head prefect and had a place lined up at Bristol University to read English and drama.
    • Roberts went to university to read English and theatre studies, where her problem continued.
    • After attending Edinburgh Academy he went to Sussex University to read English.
    • So the group has devised several strategies to try to increase the number of students reading physics at universities.
    • She read microbiology at Leeds University and trained for the ministry on the Northern Ordination Course.
    • By the time I got to university I was reading Marx and learning about how religion was the opium of the people.
    • Initially he arrived at Newcastle on a gap year before proceeding to Durham University to read sports science.
    • Academically brilliant, she was due to go to Leeds University in September to read English and drama.
    • She was educated at Island School in Hong Kong before coming to England to read law at University College London.
    • He was reading for an MSc in Security Management at Leicester University.
    • She had decided to go into the museums sector while reading English Literature at university in Sheffield, her home city.
    • I did, however, read history at university, so I know what the historians say.
    • Mr Dyke was taken on by the university to read politics as a mature student in 1971 with one grade E A level.
    • The oldest, a rocket scientist, is now a father himself, the youngest is off to university to read medicine.
    • Mr Hackett read history at Oxford University and had planned a career in teaching or lecturing.
    • As for me, I am entering my fourth year of university reading chemistry.
    • She grew up in Dublin and went to University College Dublin to read English and history.
    • He then entered the University of Cambridge to read general studies before taking up physics.
    • The former Leeds Girls High School pupil from Roundhay, is now reading Oriental Studies at Cambridge University.
    • Johnson's passion for wine began when he was at Cambridge University, where he read English.
    Synonyms
    study, do, take
  • 6(of a computer) copy, transfer, or interpret (data).

    (计算机)复制,转移(数据)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The video relay module reads a separate gigabit Ethernet network connection devoted to video.
    • Then the system reads that information and casts objects at run time.
    • There is no hassle of manually decrypting a file before reading it or encrypting it again after modifying it.
    • If your computer is constantly reading from your hard disk, it's time to upgrade.
    • Once there was an additional message that the floppy disk could not be read either.
    • The smartctl t command starts a self test that reads every byte on the disk.
    • Depending on what the charge inside is, the computer reads the memory cell as a ‘1’ or ‘0’.
    • The program reads the information from your CD and imports it to your collection.
    • The time it takes to read a single byte at random is MUCH higher on a rambus system than on a DDR system.
    • All it really means is that there is a script running that loads a web page, reads the HTML looking for certain attributes, and then reacts based on those attributes.
    • The software itself does not read information beyond its load location on the hard drive.
    • Once the connection is negotiated, it reads the client's HTTP request.
    • It reads a GLADE user interface description and instantiates its corresponding objects.
    • A computer program reads the same scans the radiologist views, and the combined judgment of the computer and radiologist helps detect more cancers, the researchers found.
    • It also reads floppy disk, Zip, Jaz, MO, IDE, and SCSI drives.
    • Computers read data tracks first, but the data track has to be located at the end of the CD.
    • When Google reads a webpage, it views the text from the top left hand side of the page to the bottom right hand side of the page.
    • Now, when I try to open attachments, I get an error message stating that the file cannot be read.
    • It is often surprising how one drive might not read a DVD, but another has no problem with it.
    • The fact that it makes no attempt to read the disks does give it some flexibility, though.
    1. 6.1 Enter or extract (data) in an electronic storage device.
      把(数据)读入电子储存装置;从电子储存装置中提取(数据)
      the most common way of reading a file into the system

      将文件读入系统的最普通的方法。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • The dæmon reads from a configuration file or can take command-line arguments.
      • The DVD Player software reads it from the disk, which uses less power than the DVD drive.
      • In order to fit more data on a disc, the limiting factor is the laser that reads the information off the disc.
      • I have written a basic Perl program that reads a list of URLs from a file, goes to the URL, looks for some information and then writes that information to another file.
      • The DOM interface reads the entire XML file into memory and provides functions for traversing the XML hierarchy and retrieving the information.
      • It only works if you're already infected with an extractor that reads the code out of the images.
      • This reads GPS from your serial port and makes it available on a network port.
      • If such a file exists, then the program reads it from disk and returns its content in an HTTP response.
      • The display reads information from the module and shows it using a total of ten LED digits.
      • The network loader reads the network boot kernel sent from the server into local memory and transfers control to it.
      • The first copy is performed by the DMA engine, which reads file contents from the disk and stores them into a kernel address space buffer.
      • Once a node reads data from storage, that data may remain in cache for some period of time, to accelerate future calls to that information.
      • By the same token, every value retrieval reads the information from disk.
    2. 6.2 (of a device) obtain data from (light or other input).
      (装置)从(光或其他输入方式)中读出数据
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Additionally, a laser that reads a two-dimensional bar code placed on the device could be used to track the item.
      • Fluorescent tags stick to variable spots; a detector reads their order as they flow past.
      • You've got to orient your own hand exactly or the sensor won't read it correctly.
      • The camera reads the ambient lighting and then kicks out just enough flash to fill shadows but leave the picture natural-looking.
      • It registers the severity of the crash by reading the deceleration data from the airbag's sensor.
      • On the audio side, the device reads standard M3U, PLS and RMP playlists, along with MP3 and WMA files.
      • The processor reads video stream from system memory, decodes it and writes it to graphics card memory.
      • Yes, like a supermarket scanner reads the bar code on a bag of potato chips.
      • The user simply assumes a natural firing grip with the finger alongside the holster, the scanner reads the fingerprint and releases the gun for use - all in the space of a second or less.
      • The blue laser is finer and can read data that is packed more tightly on a disc.
      • The leader, me, Gus, hands over the device that reads Val's signal to the two youngest members, along with two camels and basic survival supplies.
      • Another switch will open a system or door only when its sensor reads the eyeballs of the owner.
      • Even without a network, it should not be beyond the wit of man to knock up a system that machine reads the passport and checks it against a digitised watchlist.
      • Like that of a phonograph record, the device's needle reads the bumps on the subject's surface, rising as it hits the peaks and dipping as it traces the valleys.
      • Under ultra-violet light it glows and the DNA code can be read under a microscope.
      • If there is an outcropping of rock or tree branches in the way, the laser will read the target.
      • The device can read the plates of passing cars, and check national records to see if the car or lorry is travelling untaxed.
      • Make sure you are reading the light from the moon and not any near by street lights etc.
      • Simply press a button and a red laser reads the bar code of the desired item.
      • It is the ballots that were not counted because the machines could not read them that are important.
  • 7Hear and understand the words of (someone speaking on a radio transmitter)

    收听到,听见(无线电发射机里的说话者)的话

    “Do you read me? Over.”

    “能听见我说的话吗?完毕。”

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Hello, Earth, Do You Read Me? How might the first intelligence from an extraterrestrial civilization be transmitted to earth?
    • Science fiction is not obsolete - do you read me?
nounrēdrid
US
  • 1usually in singular A person's interpretation of something.

    〈美〉解释,阐明

    their read on the national situation may be correct

    他们对国际形势的阐述可能是正确的。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He hasn't had enough appearances this season to get a good read on his bat speed.
    • Tomorrow night, our Paula Zahn will try to get a read on the undecided voters in that state.
    • It seems that maybe they did have a good read on the will of the people after all.
    • If we had inspectors in the country we could keep at least a limited read on what sort of progress he was making.
    • You never quite get a read on who's being fake and who's being real.
    • We watched for about twenty minutes trying to get a read on what the skies were doing.
    • My read of the story tells me that this man is easily offended and a persistent complainer.
    • When he tried to get a read on my head I invited him to take his shopping elsewhere.
    • I just need some help parsing out the signals, trying to get a clear read on this situation.
    • Tone and direction oscillate several times, making it hard to get a read on the series.
    1. 1.1informal with adjective A book considered in terms of its readability.
      〈非正式〉(有可读性的)书,读物
      the book is a thoroughly entertaining read

      该书纯粹是一本娱乐性读物。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Hard men making hard decisions is never going to make for an easy read.
      • The cards feature local Ilkley characters and their favourite reads, the book they are currently reading and the first book they read through choice.
      • Fitzgerald is one of hurling's most likeable characters and the book is an entertaining read.
      • I have recommended it to numerous people who have purchased it and agree that it is a staggering read!
      • If the truth be told, many have not read it, claiming that they hardly see it as a beach read.
      • If that is the case, then he was wrong, for as an exploration of that war in its widest sense, it is a gripping read.
      • When one of the narrators in a novel is the ghost of a girl who fell to her death in a dumb waiter, you know it's not going to be an ordinary read.
      • Apart from being a splendid read, Finola O'Kane's study may prove a useful corrective to that.
      • It's a great read, only suffering from a severe lack of relevant illustrations.
      • I pretty much had an extensive list going already, but I always like to hear what other people are reading and I was able to add some fun books to the suggested reads.
      • The man is a catalyst for what happens in the story: I suspect that his own backstory would make for a gripping read.
      • Some books are okay reads after you have read everything else.
      • For a book of the life of a man for who not a lot happened, it is a compelling read.
      • It is about a Scot in London by a Scot and it was a great read.
      • Her spiky style and confident handling of the source material creates a book which is more of a literary event than a quiet read.
      • Nevertheless, the wide variety within this collection makes it an enjoyable read.
      • Let's just say this funny, thoughtful, intelligent and crazy book is one of the best all-purpose reads of 2003.
      • It's an intoxicating read, and one which eventually develops a rhythm all its own.
      • And not only were these books wonderful reads, but the author's heart was always in the right place, with a special sympathy for the misfits and the emotionally wounded.
      • Yet this subculture is engrossing enough to make this scholarly book a pretty good read.
    2. 1.2British A period or act of reading something.
      〈主英〉一段阅读时间;阅读
      I was having a quiet read of the newspaper

      我在静静地读报。

      Synonyms
      perusal, study, scan, scrutiny

Phrases

  • read between the lines

    • Look for or discover a meaning that is hidden or implied rather than explicitly stated.

      从字里行间(或言辞中)体会隐含之意,领会言外之意

      Example sentencesExamples
      • He does not have to say what he means literally - he reads between the lines and so should you!
      • However, reading between the lines, one can discover criticism of army doctors and the army authorities in general, who above all wanted to maintain discipline and return soldiers to the battlefield.
      • Even so, one must read between the lines to discover the full impact on her of the long joyless union with Thomas.
      • I just assumed readers would read between the lines.
      • Her entry into undergraduate life hasn't been entirely easy; my reading between the lines of her anecdotes suggests one or two of her lecturers haven't responded well to the polite but complex questions she asks in class.
      • But increasingly we prisoners of war sensed, from our captors' demeanor and reading between the lines of propaganda broadcasts, a sinister force surfacing.
      • Instead, managers must learn to read between the lines or interpret subtle hints that a problem has developed.
      • Under Stalin, and after, Soviet newspapers tended to exhort rather than inform, but perceptive readers could read between the lines.
      • One rather gathers, reading between the lines, that he dismissed Piggy as a fool.
      • The interpreter reads between the lines of total and, partial knowledge, ever open to deeper understanding as it unfurls between them.
      Synonyms
      infer from, interpolate from, assume from, attribute to
  • read someone like a book

    • Understand someone's thoughts and motives clearly or easily.

      了解…的心思(或动机);对…了如指掌

      Example sentencesExamples
      • I never conferred with Alison about Faye so she left alone, however Amy could read me like a book and whenever I was feeling down she'd guess it.
      • Some of those have crowed before that they can read me like a book, that they're great with people and can get to the root of any problem.
      • He stared at her, his piercing, penetrating gaze shooting right through her, reading her like a book.
      • His mother - and she could read him like a book - had driven him to the barracks gates just seven hours earlier.
      • He is the only person who understands me and can read me like a book without having to turn to page one.
      • How great it is to have a best friend who reads you like a book.
      • I know you higher-ups like to hide that sort of thing from us, but I can read you like a book, sir.
      • You keep forgetting, we can read you like a book.
      • Then again, he had known me my whole life and he could read me like a book, what I was feeling, and what I was thinking.
      • I had to answer no, whilst wildly panicking that I could be read like a book -.
      Synonyms
      not be deceived by, not be taken in by, be wise to, get the measure of, have the measure of, read like a book, fathom, penetrate, realize, understand
  • read someone's mind (or thoughts)

    • Discern what someone is thinking.

      猜透…的心思,知道…在想些什么

      Example sentencesExamples
      • When I ask him what sparked his needle-picking mission, he reads my mind.
      • But I hate him because he always seems to be reading my mind and telling me what I think of myself.
      • Ms Lauren reads my mind and posts questions on a topic I've been thinking about recently, snobbery.
      • As if reading my mind, Rafael rises from the conference table and says, ‘I swear I don't have a mistress in Beijing.’
      • Anyone claiming to be a mind reader has definitely not read my mind correctly on this one.
      • A paralysed man in the US has become the first person to benefit from a brain chip that reads his mind.
      • For perhaps, even as you may be watching a feat performed by a magician, he can be reading your mind.
      • You think of a number, the computer reads your mind and guesses the number.
      • No, she doesn't have eyes in the back of her head, but she could be reading your mind.
      • It was like he was reading my mind and playing it back so I have to think it was a dream.
  • read my lips

    • informal Listen carefully (used to emphasize the importance of the speaker's words or the earnestness of their intent).

      〈北美,非正式〉请认真听(用来强调所说的话的重要性或表达说话人迫切的心情)

      Example sentencesExamples
      • And anyway you say ‘the guys’ as though you are all great friends, stop, look at me and read my lips!
      • David's taking off for Australia this Saturday, and we - read my lips - have NO MORE PHILOSOPHY CLASSES.
      • Mr. President, in all due respect, Mr. President, read my lips: Our vote is not for sale.
      • Hey read my lips,’ I said pointing to myself, ‘Friends.’
      • It imposes no more cost - read my lips, no more cost - on employers.
      • Where are the headlines that says, you know, read my lips, no more surplus?

Phrasal Verbs

  • read something into

    • Attribute a meaning or significance to (something) that it may not in fact possess.

      把…加进对…的理解中去;对…做某种解释

      was I reading too much into his behavior?

      我是否对他的行为做了过于武断的解释?

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Please, that is really reading a lot into something that is not that significant.
      • Others were less gloomy, reading a cheering message into the fact that cricket was played at all.
      • The plot behind the film is very thought provoking if you start reading the religious implications into it.
      • It might be argued that it is far-fetched to read such significance into a political speech and a generalised endorsement of that by a linked organisation.
      • I'm not claiming that; they're simply reading things into my argument that are not there.
      • I think that too much fact can be read into fiction.
      • Plenty of people seem to be reading a lot into the Swedish rejection of the single currency.
      • I can remember becoming so paranoid that I was reading signs into everything.
      • She told officers that was why he went on TV and that he told her: ‘The press are just reading things into it.’
      • That's not going to stop me reading morals into it though.
      Synonyms
      infer from, interpolate from, assume from, attribute to
  • read someone out of

    • Formally expel someone from (an organization or body).

      〈主美〉(将某人从组织、团体)开除,除名

      Example sentencesExamples
      • I am saying that younger Catholics continue to pack their faith on journeys to uncharted cultural and spiritual territories, and that we might wait before reading them out of the congregation.
      • You and everybody else were reading me out of this.
      • Young man, who are you, and by what right do you think you can read me out of the church.
      • Some African Americans treated him as badly as Islamic fundamentalists treated Salman Rushdie, pretty much calling him a traitor and a heretic and reading him out of the race.
      • Insurgents Denounce Attempt to Read Them Out of Party as Unfair and Malicious.
      • We cannot read them out of the definition, can we?
  • read up on something (or read something up)

    • Acquire information about a particular subject by studying it intensively or systematically.

      研读,攻读;系统地研究(某一科目)

      she spent the time reading up on antenatal care

      她将那些时间投入到系统研究产前保健问题。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Minutes earlier he had made reference to ‘some journalists ‘who take the time to read up on their subjects.’
      • You can get all of the information here, so go read up on it and sign up!
      • Before taking it, I insist on reading up on the subject.
      • I suggest that you read up on this subject, Joan.
      • He wants parents to discuss drug issues with their children and read up on the subject before a swab sample is suggested.
      • Well, I see you've been reading up on the subject.
      • At the pre-natal stage both parents should read up on the subject and have a fair idea of what to expect once the child arrives.
      • What you need to do is to get in the right frame of mind by reading up on the subject.
      • With the grand opening of Hong Kong Disneyland, people must want to read up on the subject.
      • That's right, I was reading up on a study done there.
      Synonyms
      study, get up

Origin

Old English rǣdan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch raden and German raten ‘advise, guess’. Early senses included ‘advise’ and ‘interpret (a riddle or dream’) (see rede).

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