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/ˈpruːfriːd/
to read something carefully again so you can find and fix mistakes in the writing.
校對
過去式 proofread過去分詞 proofread-ing proofreading三單 proofreads
核心畫面
Picture reading your own page one more time, but slowly, hunting rather than enjoying — a missing , a name spelled two ways, a line that says the opposite of what you meant. It is a second pass with a different job: not to take the meaning in, but to catch what slipped.
可以想成：把自己寫好的東西再看一遍，但這次讀得很慢，是在找東西而不是在讀內容——漏掉的逗號、前後不一致的人名、一句意…更多收起
可以想成：把自己寫好的東西再看一遍，但這次讀得很慢，是在找東西而不是在讀內容——漏掉的逗號、前後不一致的人名、一句意思剛好相反的話。它是第二次閱讀，任務完全不同：不是要吸收意思，而是要抓出溜過去的錯誤。所以英文才用 read 加上印刷業的 proof（校樣）組成這個字。原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
proofreadverb/ˈpɹuːfɹiːd/
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To check a written text for errors in spelling, grammar, syntax, and punctuation.
proofreadnoun
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rareSynonym of proofreading.
- At 3:30 she put the finishing touches on her memo, printed it, gave it a proofread, then handed it to the attorney.
- I want to thank Sherri and Dee Humphreys, Mark Randolph and Paul Gonzalez for their proofreads and input.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。