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You can picture read as the eye landing on written marks — letters on a page, a sign, a shape — and the mind turning those marks into meaning. The marks themselves are silent and dead; reading is the moment they come alive in your head as words, numbers, or sense. Every other use stretches this one move: take a set of marks or signals, and decode what they mean.

可以想成：眼睛落在一串寫下來的記號上——紙上的字母、招牌、某種圖形——腦子把這些記號變成意思。記號本身是死的、不出聲…更多收起可以想成：眼睛落在一串寫下來的記號上——紙上的字母、招牌、某種圖形——腦子把這些記號變成意思。記號本身是死的、不出聲的，「讀」就是它們在你腦中突然活成文字、數字或道理的那一刻。其餘所有用法都是把這個動作往外延伸：拿到一組記號或訊號，解出它的意思。

原始詞典資料31 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。

Readname

  • 1

    A surname from Old English, a less common spelling variant of Reid.

  • 2

    A male given name transferred from the surname.

  • 3

    A village and civil parish in Ribble Valley district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD7634).

  • 4

    A township in Clayton County, Iowa, United States.

  • 5

    A township in Butler County, Nebraska, United States.

  • 6

    An unincorporated community in Randolph County, West Virginia, United States.

readverb詞源 1/ɹiːd/

  • 1

    To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.

    • Have you read this book?
    • He doesn’t like to read.
  • 2

    To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.

    • Arabic reads right to left.
    • That sentence reads strangely.
  • 3

    To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.

    • At the moment I'm reading Milton.
  • 4

    To speak aloud words or other information that is written. (often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object)

    • He read us a passage from his new book.
    • All right, class, who wants to read next?
  • 5

    To interpret, or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc., from.

    • She read my mind and promptly rose to get me a glass of water.
    • I can read his feelings in his face.
  • 6

    To consist of certain text.

    • On the door hung a sign that read "No admittance".
  • 7

    To substitute a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one; used to introduce an emendation of a text.

    • In Livy, it is nearly certain that for Pylleon we should read Pteleon, as this place is mentioned in connection with Antron.
    • The sign of coefficient a(3) in the general formula of Table 2 should be plus instead of minus. Thus, the formula should read […]
  • 8

    To substitute a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one; used to introduce an emendation of a text.

    • Our school focuses primarily on the liberal arts (read "useless degrees").
    • Eliminate illogical (read: stupid) answer choices.
另外 11 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    communicationselectrical-engineeringengineeringTo be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.

    • Do you read me?
    • Hello, HAL. Do you read me, HAL?
  • 10

    rail-transportrailwaystransportTo observe and comprehend (a displayed signal).

    • A repeater signal may be used where the track geometry makes the main signal difficult to read from a distance.
  • 11

    To study (a subject) at a high level, especially at university.

    • I am reading theology at university.
    • Crabbe wanted him to go to England, to read for a degree there.
  • 12

    computingengineeringmathematicsTo fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).

    • to read a hard disk
    • to read a port
  • 13

    To recognise (someone) as being transgender.

    • Every time I go outside, I worry that someone will read me.
  • 14

    To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in a playful, taunting, or insulting way.

    • I've seen drags "read" an unattractive transsexual until she was almost in tears.
    • Snapping, we are told, comes from reading, or exposing hidden flaws in a person's life, and out of reading comes shade […]
  • 15

    To imagine sequences of potential moves and responses without actually placing stones.

  • 16

    obsoleteTo think, believe; to consider (that).

    • But now, faire Ladie, comfort to you make, / And read[…] / That short reuenge the man may ouertake […]
  • 17

    obsoleteTo advise; to counsel. See rede.

    • [T]herfore / I red the [thee] / gete the [thee] to Gods vvorde ãd [and] therby trye all doctrine and agenſt that receave nothinge.
    • This is the wandring wood, this Errours den, / A monster vile, whom God and man does hate: / Therefore I read beware.
  • 18

    obsoleteTo tell; to declare; to recite.

    • But read how art thou named, and of what kin.
  • 19

    video-gamesTo predict another player's actions before they perform them or before they are apparent.

readnoun詞源 1/ɹiːd/

  • 1

    A reading or an act of reading, especially of an actor's part of a play or a piece of stored data.

    • I had a read of the evening papers.
    • One newswoman here lets magazines for a penny a read.
  • 2

    Something to be read; a written work.

    • His thrillers are always a gripping read.
  • 3

    A person's interpretation or impression of something.

    • What's your read of the current political situation?
    • On the quarterback's first read of the situation, his target receiver was not open.
  • 4

    An instance of reading (“calling attention to someone's flaws; a taunt or insult”).

    • [As] Corey points out, "if you and I are both black queens then we can't call each other black queens because that's not a read. That's a [fact]."
    • Like most African-American women, Pearlie Mae uses snapping in many of the same ways that black gay men use it: to accentuate a read.
  • 5

    biochemistrybiologychemistryThe identification of a specific sequence of genes in a genome or bases in a nucleic acid string.

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。