Read

(noun.) something that is read; 'the article was a very good read'.

(verb.) to hear and understand; 'I read you loud and clear!'.

(verb.) interpret something that is written or printed; 'read the advertisement'; 'Have you read Salman Rushdie?'.

(verb.) look at, interpret, and say out loud something that is written or printed; 'The King will read the proclamation at noon'.

(verb.) interpret the significance of, as of palms, tea leaves, intestines, the sky; also of human behavior; 'She read the sky and predicted rain'; 'I can't read his strange behavior'; 'The fortune teller read his fate in the crystal ball'.

(verb.) obtain data from magnetic tapes; 'This dictionary can be read by the computer'.

(verb.) indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments; 'The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero'; 'The gauge read `empty''.

(verb.) audition for a stage role by reading parts of a role; 'He is auditioning for `Julius Caesar' at Stratford this year'.

(verb.) have or contain a certain wording or form; 'The passage reads as follows'; 'What does the law say?'.

博比编辑

• He had not read far when he rested his head upon his two hands--to hide his face from me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Miss Kate took out her sketch again, and Margaret watched her, while Mr. Brooke lay on the grass with a book, which he did not read. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• In the periodical publications of June, 1914, may be read the eloquent announcement: Langley's Folly Flies. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• But if you have followed recent events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his wedding? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• It seemed all at once to take the shape of an impertinence on her part; she read this meaning too in the man's eyes. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Read that scrawl. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Neither had read it, but they knew it was a love story, and each privately wondered if it was half as interesting as their own. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Emma has been meaning to read more ever since she was twelve years old. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• With trembling hand she gave him the paper, and sat white and motionless looking at him while he read it. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Shall I read aloud? 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• Amy stood a minute, turning the leaves in her hand, reading on each some sweet rebuke for all heartburnings and uncharitableness of spirit. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Have you come to any conclusion, sir, in your own mind, while I have been reading? 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Those who loved reading were obliged to send for their books from England: the members of the Junto had each a few. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• But I hope you HAD finished your reading, Henry? 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• These the waggoner delivered to each of us respectively, reading the name aloud first. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• It is perhaps natural for a European writer writing primarily for English-reading students to overrun his subject in this way. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• While I was reading a shadow fell across the paper. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The early habit of reading was wanting. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• He had taken up a book from the stall, and there he stood, reading away, as hard as if he were in his elbow-chair, in his own study. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• But no one knows so well as the Secretary, who opens and reads the letters, what a set is made at the man marked by a stroke of notoriety. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Doesn't she remind you of Mrs. Scott-Siddons when she reads 'Lady Geraldine's Courtship'? 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• One Sunday night my mother reads to Peggotty and me in there, how Lazarus was raised up from the dead. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• I certainly have, this morning, received this letter--which he reads aloud--but I hope it may be set right yet. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Shows it to his wife--she reads the label; it goes down to the servants- -_they_ read the label. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• This was the clause--and no one who reads it can fail, I think, to agree with me that it meted out equal justice to all parties. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• It was a profound utterance as anyone can testify who reads, let us say, the Congressional Record. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Do you suppose the public reads with a view to its own conversion? 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• The blank, unornamented coop had nothing about it of that oriental voluptuousness one reads of so much. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Sir Leicester puts her letter in his hands and looks intently in his face while he reads it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.

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