单词 | to read over |
释义 | > as lemmasto read over to read over 1. transitive. To go over or through (a text, written list, etc.), reading aloud. ΘΚΠ society > communication > reading > [verb (transitive)] > from beginning to end over-readOE to read overc1380 pursuec1384 to see over ——1490 peruse1524 peruse1532 to read through1533 perlegate1598 to read out1646 the mind > language > speech > speech-making > recitation > recite [verb (transitive)] > read aloud readOE to read overc1380 to read out1534 prone1683 to read upa1691 to read off1808 to call off1846 c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 5789 Þe bysschop..þat had..ouer y-rad Alle ys orysouns. a1438 Bk. Margery Kempe (1940) i. 5 (MED) He red it ouyr be-forn þis creatur, euery word. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iv. iii. 191 Iaque. I beseech your Grace let this Letter be read... King. Berowne reade it ouer. View more context for this quotation 1626 N. Breton Fantasticks sig. F2v The first course is served in,..the dishes haue been red ouer. 1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 415 Then he pull'd out his Grandmother's Will, and read it over to me. 1847 A. Brontë Agnes Grey xi. 176 Having opened his prayer-book, and hastily read over a part of the service for the sick. 1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) IV. 160 Socrates requested that the first thesis..might be read over again. 1915 W. Cather Song of Lark vi. iii. 405 The doctor took out Thea's letter to him, and read it over to Mrs. Kronborg. 2004 B. Blech Eyewitness Jewish Hist. ii. vi. 65 Demetrius collected together the Jewish population in the place where the translation had been made, and read it over to all. 2. transitive. To go over or look back over (a letter, book, etc.); to peruse in full. Also figurative and in extended use. ΚΠ a1425 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (1987) ii. 1085 He..radde it over, and gan the lettre folde. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cxxxiij The Lantgraue readinge ouer their booke and their letters, noted what he thought blame worthy. 1594 J. Lyly Mother Bombie iii. iii. sig. E3 Fooles..Haue farre more knowledge, To reade a woman ouer, Than a neate prating louer. a1639 T. Dekker et al. Witch of Edmonton (1658) iii. i. 32 Ah, 'las! I am not half perfect in it [sc. parting] yet, I must have it read over an hundred times. 1683 H. Prideaux in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Literary Men (1843) (Camden) 185 Some booke or other..which he will read over, and then bring me again. 1758 T. Gray Let. 28 Oct. in Corr. (1971) II. 591 The first act of Caractacus is just arrived here, but I have not read it over. 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxv. 211 ‘There's no denying that the position is a hard one,’ Dobbin replied, after reading over the letter with a blank countenance. 1897 B. Stoker Dracula xvii. 226 In the meantime I shall read over some of these documents, and shall be better able to understand certain things. 1946 Nat. Hist. Mag. Mar. 144/2 Please read over the foregoing statement again, Madam Regent. 1993 R. Connolly Sunday Morning (BNC) 128 When she had finished, Emily read over what she had written. 2006 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 13 July 44/1 To read over..the entire published output of a poet whose work one is familiar with. < as lemmas |
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