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翻译 · 词源 · 例句- vt. 阅读;读懂,理解
- vi. 读;读起来
- n. 阅读;读物
- adj. 有学问的
- n. (Read)人名;(英)里德
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词源 · 例句 · 用法词态变化
第三人称单数: reads;过去式: read;过去分词: read;现在分词: reading;
中文词源
read 阅读,朗读,解读
来自古英语 raedan,建议,顾问,劝说,解释,阅读,来自 PIE*redan,建议,解释,来自 PIE*rei, 思考,考虑,论证,词源同 reason,rate.现词义主要为阅读,朗读。
英文词源
- read
- read: [OE] In most western European languages, the word for ‘read’ goes back ultimately to a source which meant literally ‘gather, pick up’: French lire, for instance, which comes from Latin legere (source of English legible and collect), and German lesen. English read, however, is an exception. Its underlying meaning is ‘advise, consider’ (it is related to German raten ‘advise’, and a memory of this original sense lives on in the archaic rede ‘advise’, which is essentially the same word as read, and also in unready ‘ill-advised’, the epithet applied to the Anglo-Saxon king Ethelred II), and the sense ‘read’ developed via ‘interpret’ (preserved in the related riddle).
=> riddle - read (v.)
- Old English rædan (West Saxon), redan (Anglian) "to advise, counsel, persuade; discuss, deliberate; rule, guide; arrange, equip; forebode; read, explain; learn by reading; put in order" (related to ræd, red "advice"), from Proto-Germanic *redan (cognates: Old Norse raða, Old Frisian reda, Dutch raden, Old High German ratan, German raten "to advise, counsel, guess"), from PIE root *re(i)- "to reason, count" (cognates: Sanskrit radh- "to succeed, accomplish," Greek arithmos "number amount," Old Church Slavonic raditi "to take thought, attend to," Old Irish im-radim "to deliberate, consider"). Words from this root in most modern Germanic languages still mean "counsel, advise."
Sense of "make out the character of (a person)" is attested from 1610s. Connected to riddle via notion of "interpret." Transference to "understand the meaning of written symbols" is unique to Old English and (perhaps under English influence) Old Norse raða. Most languages use a word rooted in the idea of "gather up" as their word for "read" (such as French lire, from Latin legere). Read up "study" is from 1842; read out (v.) "expel by proclamation" (Society of Friends) is from 1788. read-only in computer jargon is recorded from 1961. - read (adj.)
- 1580s, "having knowledge gained from reading," in well-read, etc., past participle adjective from read (v.).
- read (n.)
- "an act of reading," 1825, from read (v.).
双语例句
- 1. I thought you might like to read the enclosed.
- 我想你或许想要读一下信封里的内容。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. In her spare time she read books on cooking.
- 业余时间里她看一些烹饪方面的书籍。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. When the decision was read out Mrs Gardner thanked the judges.
- 判决书宣读完,加德纳夫人向法官们表示感谢。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. He skimmed the pages quickly, then read them again more carefully.
- 他先快速地浏览页面,然后再细细阅读。
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. There's a reason why women don't read this stuff; it's not funny.
- 女人不读这种东西是有原因的,它并不好笑。
来自柯林斯例句
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