释义 |
perusepe‧ruse /pəˈruːz/ verb [transitive] peruseOrigin: 1500-1600 Probably from Latin per- ‘thoroughly’ + English use VERB TABLEperuse |
Present | I, you, we, they | peruse | | he, she, it | peruses | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | perused | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have perused | | he, she, it | has perused | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had perused | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will peruse | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have perused |
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Present | I | am perusing | | he, she, it | is perusing | | you, we, they | are perusing | Past | I, he, she, it | was perusing | | you, we, they | were perusing | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been perusing | | he, she, it | has been perusing | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been perusing | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be perusing | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been perusing |
- He spent hours perusing the catalog.
- Bear this in mind when you peruse the catalogues and the plants on offer in the nursery garden centre plunge beds.
- Employers would be barred from perusing medical information about employees and job applicants.
- I admit that when I first began to peruse these letters and testimonies I was puzzled and sometimes a little annoyed.
- Instead of routinely tossing frequent-flier program newsletters into the trash bin, peruse them for upcoming bargains.
- That's why I was quite happy to peruse my lady's jottings.
- The procedure also gives your solicitors the opportunity to peruse your file at an earlier stage.
- We browse through my cookbooks, perusing recipes, not as formulas or prescriptions but as hints and inspirations for impromptu inventions.
- We do not expect that he perused every word of the book.
formal to read something, especially in a careful way: She leant forward to peruse the document more closely.—perusal noun [countable, uncountable] |