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reproduce written words mentally or utter them aloud: read a book; to apprehend the meaning; assume as intended or deducible: read too much into a letter; determine what is being said by the movement of a person’s lips: read lips
Not to be confused with:reed – a marsh plant with a firm stem; the vibrating part of the mouthpiece of some wind instruments

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R0067400 (rēd)v. read (rĕd), read·ing, reads v.tr.1. To examine and grasp the meaning of (written or printed characters, words, or sentences).2. To utter or render aloud (written or printed material): read poems to the students.3. To have the ability to examine and grasp the meaning of (written or printed material in a given language or notation): reads Chinese; reads music.4. a. To examine and grasp the meaning of (language in a form other than written or printed characters, words, or sentences): reading Braille; reading sign language.b. To examine and grasp the meaning of (a graphic representation): reading a map.5. a. To discern and interpret the nature or significance of through close examination or sensitive observation: The tracker read the trail for signs of game.b. To discern or anticipate through examination or observation; descry: "I can read abandonment in a broken door or shattered window" (William H. Gass).6. To determine the intent or mood of: can read your mind like a book; a hard person to read.7. a. To attribute a certain interpretation or meaning to: read her words differently than I did.b. To consider (something written or printed) as having a particular meaning or significance: read the novel as a parable.8. To foretell or predict (the future).9. To receive or comprehend (a radio message, for example): I read you loud and clear.10. To study or make a study of: read history as an undergraduate.11. To learn or get knowledge of from something written or printed: read that interest rates would continue to rise.12. To proofread.13. To have or use as a preferred reading in a particular passage: For change read charge.14. To indicate, register, or show: The dial reads 32°.15. Computers To obtain (data) from a storage medium, such as an optical disc.16. Genetics To decode or translate (a sequence of messenger RNA) into an amino acid sequence in a polypeptide chain.v.intr.1. To examine and grasp the meaning of printed or written characters, as of words or music.2. To speak aloud the words that one is reading: read to the children every night.3. To learn by reading: read about the storm in the paper today.4. To study.5. To have a particular wording: Recite the poem exactly as it reads.6. To contain a specific meaning: As the law reads, the defendant is guilty.7. To indicate, register, or show a measurement or figure: How does your new watch read?8. To have a specified character or quality for the reader: Your poems read well.n. Informal 1. Something that is read: "The book is a page-turner as well as a very satisfying read" (Frank Conroy).2. An interpretation or assessment: gave us her read of the political situation.adj. (rĕd) Informed by reading; learned: only sparsely read in fields outside my profession.Phrasal Verbs: read out To read aloud: Please read out the names on the list. read up To study or learn by reading: Read up on the places you plan to visit before you travel.Idioms: read a lecture/lesson To issue a reprimand: My parents read me a lecture because I had neglected my chores. read between the lines To perceive or detect an obscure or unexpressed meaning: learned to read between the lines of corporate annual reports to discern areas of fiscal weakness. read out of To expel by proclamation from a social, political, or other group: was read out of the secretariat after the embarrassing incident.

[Middle English reden, from Old English rǣdan, to advise; see ar- in Indo-European roots.]Word History: English is the one of the few western European languages that does not derive its verb for "to read" from Latin legere. Compare, for example, leggere in Italian, lire in French, and lesen in German. (Equally surprising is the fact that English is the only western European language not to derive its verb for "to write" from Latin scrībere.) Read comes from the Old English verb rǣdan, "to advise, interpret (something difficult), interpret (something written), read." Rǣdan is related to the German verb raten, "to advise" (as in Rathaus, "town hall"). The Old English noun rǣd, "counsel," survives in the rare noun rede, "counsel, advice" and in the name of the unfortunate King Ethelred the Unready, whose epithet is often misunderstood. Unready here does not have its current sense "unprepared"; it is a late 16th-century spelling of an earlier unredy, "ill-advised, rash, foolish," from rede.

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(riːd) vb, reads, reading or read (rɛd) 1. to comprehend the meaning of (something written or printed) by looking at and interpreting the written or printed characters2. to be occupied in such an activity: he was reading all day. 3. (when: tr, often foll by out) to look at, interpret, and speak aloud (something written or printed): he read to us from the Bible. 4. (tr) to interpret the significance or meaning of through scrutiny and recognition: he read the sky and predicted rain; to read a map. 5. (tr) to interpret or understand the meaning of (signs, characters, etc) other than by visual means: to read Braille. 6. (tr) to have sufficient knowledge of (a language) to understand the written or printed word: do you read German?. 7. (tr) to discover or make out the true nature or mood of: to read someone's mind. 8. to interpret or understand (something read) in a specified way, or (of something read) to convey a particular meaning or impression: I read this speech as satire; this book reads well. 9. (tr) to adopt as a reading in a particular passage: for "boon" read "bone". 10. (intr) to have or contain a certain form or wording: the sentence reads as follows. 11. to undertake a course of study in (a subject): to read history; read for the bar. 12. to gain knowledge by reading: he read about the war. 13. (tr) to register, indicate, or show: the meter reads 100. 14. (tr) to bring or put into a specified condition by reading: to read a child to sleep. 15. (Telecommunications) (tr) to hear and understand, esp when using a two-way radio: we are reading you loud and clear. 16. (Computer Science) computing to obtain (data) from a storage device, such as magnetic tape. Compare write¹⁶17. (Music, other) (tr) to understand (written or printed music) by interpretation of the notes on the staff and to be able to reproduce the musical sounds represented by these notes18. read a lesson read a lecture informal to censure or reprimand, esp in a long-winded manner19. read between the lines to perceive or deduce a meaning that is hidden or implied rather than being openly stated20. you wouldn't read about it informal Austral an expression of dismay, disgust, or disbeliefn21. matter suitable for reading: this new book is a very good read. 22. the act of reading[Old English rǣdan to advise, explain; related to Old Frisian rēda, Old High German rātan, Gothic garēdan]

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(rɛd) vb the past tense and past participle of read¹adj1. having knowledge gained from books (esp in the phrases widely read, well-read)2. take something as read to take something for granted as a fact; understand or presume

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n. v.t. 1. to look at so as to understand the meaning of (something written, printed, etc.). 2. to utter aloud or render in speech (something written, printed, etc.): to read a story to a child. 3. to have such knowledge of (a language) as to be able to understand things written in it. 4. to apprehend the meaning of (signs, characters, etc.) otherwise than with the eyes: to read Braille. 5. to recognize and understand the meaning of (gestures, symbols, signals, or the like): to read a semaphore. 6. to study the speech movements of (lips) so as to understand what is being said by a speaker. 7. to make out the significance of by scrutiny or observation: to read the dark sky as the threat of a storm. 8. to foretell or predict: to read a person's fortune in tea leaves. 9. to make out the character, motivations, etc., of (a person), as by the interpretation of outward signs. 10. to interpret or attribute a meaning to (a written text, a musical composition, etc.). 11. to infer (something not expressed) from what is read, considered, or observed: He read sarcasm into her letter. 12. to adopt or give as a reading in a particular passage: For “one thousand” another version reads “ten thousand.” 13. to register or indicate, as a thermometer. 14. to learn by or as if by reading: to read a person's thoughts. 15. to hear and understand (a transmitted message or the person transmitting it): I read you loud and clear. 16. to bring, put, etc., by reading: to read oneself to sleep. 17. to discover or explain the meaning of (a riddle, dream, etc.). 18. to obtain (data or programs) from an external storage medium and place in a computer's memory. 19. Brit. to study (a subject), as at a university. v.i. 20. to read written or printed matter. 21. to render aloud a text that one is reading. 22. (of an actor) to audition by reading aloud from a given script or other text. 23. to give a public reading or recital. 24. to inspect and apprehend the meaning of written or other signs or characters. 25. to occupy oneself with reading or study. 26. to obtain knowledge or learn of something by reading. 27. to admit of being read as specified: The essay reads well. 28. to have a certain wording. 29. to admit of being interpreted: a rule that reads two different ways. 30. to register or indicate particular information, as the status or condition of something. 31. read up on, to learn about by reading. n. 32. an act or instance of reading. 33. something that is read: Her new novel is a good read. Idioms: 1. read between the lines, to understand from implications only. 2. read someone's lips, to accept the truth of someone's statements, esp. after protracted argument: Read my lips - I don't want the job. [before 900; Middle English reden, Old English rǣdan to counsel, read]

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adj. having knowledge gained by reading (usu. used in combination): a well-read person. [1580–90]

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n. Sir Herbert, 1893–1968, English critic and poet.

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1. reading to yourself

When you read /riːd/ a piece of writing, you look at it and understand what it says.

Why don't you read your letter?

The past tense and -ed participle of read is read /red/.

I read through the whole paper.Have you read that article I gave you?2. reading to someone else

If you read something such as a book to someone, you say the words so that the other person can hear them. When you use read like this, it has two objects. If the indirect object is a pronoun, it usually goes in front of the direct object.

I'm going to read him some of my poems.I read her the two pages dealing with plants.

If the indirect object is not a pronoun, it usually goes after the direct object. When this happens, you put to in front of the indirect object.

Read books to your baby this helps to develop language and listening skills.

You also put the indirect object after the direct object when the direct object is a pronoun.

You will have to read it to him.

You can also omit the direct object.

I'll go up and read to Sam for five minutes.

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Past participle: read
Gerund: reading

Imperative
read
read

Present
I read
you read
he/she/it reads
we read
you read
they read

Preterite
I read
you read
he/she/it read
we read
you read
they read

Present Continuous
I am reading
you are reading
he/she/it is reading
we are reading
you are reading
they are reading

Present Perfect
I have read
you have read
he/she/it has read
we have read
you have read
they have read

Past Continuous
I was reading
you were reading
he/she/it was reading
we were reading
you were reading
they were reading

Past Perfect
I had read
you had read
he/she/it had read
we had read
you had read
they had read

Future
I will read
you will read
he/she/it will read
we will read
you will read
they will read

Future Perfect
I will have read
you will have read
he/she/it will have read
we will have read
you will have read
they will have read

Future Continuous
I will be reading
you will be reading
he/she/it will be reading
we will be reading
you will be reading
they will be reading

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been reading
you have been reading
he/she/it has been reading
we have been reading
you have been reading
they have been reading

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been reading
you will have been reading
he/she/it will have been reading
we will have been reading
you will have been reading
they will have been reading

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been reading
you had been reading
he/she/it had been reading
we had been reading
you had been reading
they had been reading

Conditional
I would read
you would read
he/she/it would read
we would read
you would read
they would read

Past Conditional
I would have read
you would have read
he/she/it would have read
we would have read
you would have read
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Noun	1.	read - something that is read; "the article was a very good read"publication - a copy of a printed work offered for distribution
Verb	1.	read - interpret something that is written or printed; "read the advertisement"; "Have you read Salman Rushdie?"construe, interpret, see - make sense of; assign a meaning to; "What message do you see in this letter?"; "How do you interpret his behavior?"anagram, anagrammatise, anagrammatize - read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaningreread - read anew; read again; "He re-read her letters to him"dip into - read selectively; read only certain passages from a textdecipher, trace - read with difficulty; "Can you decipher this letter?"; "The archeologist traced the hieroglyphs"read - look at, interpret, and say out loud something that is written or printed; "The King will read the proclamation at noon"skim over, skim - read superficiallylipread, lip-read, speech-read - interpret by lipreading; of deaf peopleread, say - have or contain a certain wording or form; "The passage reads as follows"; "What does the law say?"
	2.	read - have or contain a certain wording or form; "The passage reads as follows"; "What does the law say?"sayread - interpret something that is written or printed; "read the advertisement"; "Have you read Salman Rushdie?"feature, have - have as a feature; "This restaurant features the most famous chefs in France"
	3.	read - look at, interpret, and say out loud something that is written or printed; "The King will read the proclamation at noon"read - interpret something that is written or printed; "read the advertisement"; "Have you read Salman Rushdie?"numerate - read out loud as words written numbersdictate - say out loud for the purpose of recording; "He dictated a report to his secretary"mouth, speak, talk, verbalise, verbalize, utter - express in speech; "She talks a lot of nonsense"; "This depressed patient does not verbalize"call - read aloud to check for omissions or absentees; "Call roll"
	4.	read - obtain data from magnetic tapes; "This dictionary can be read by the computer"scanconstrue, interpret, see - make sense of; assign a meaning to; "What message do you see in this letter?"; "How do you interpret his behavior?"misread - read or interpret wrongly; "He misread the data"
	5.	read - interpret the significance of, as of palms, tea leaves, intestines, the sky; also of human behavior; "She read the sky and predicted rain"; "I can't read his strange behavior"; "The fortune teller read his fate in the crystal ball"read, take - interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression; "I read this address as a satire"; "How should I take this message?"; "You can't take credit for this!"scry - divine by gazing into crystalsforebode, predict, prognosticate, foretell, promise, anticipate, call - make a prediction about; tell in advance; "Call the outcome of an election"
	6.	read - interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression; "I read this address as a satire"; "How should I take this message?"; "You can't take credit for this!"takeread - to hear and understand; "I read you loud and clear!"construe, interpret, see - make sense of; assign a meaning to; "What message do you see in this letter?"; "How do you interpret his behavior?"misinterpret, misread - interpret wrongly; "I misread Hamlet all my life!"read - interpret the significance of, as of palms, tea leaves, intestines, the sky; also of human behavior; "She read the sky and predicted rain"; "I can't read his strange behavior"; "The fortune teller read his fate in the crystal ball"
	7.	read - be a student of a certain subject; "She is reading for the bar exam"learn, study, takeaudit - attend academic courses without getting credittrain, prepare - undergo training or instruction in preparation for a particular role, function, or profession; "She is training to be a teacher"; "He trained as a legal aid"practice, practise, drill, exercise - learn by repetition; "We drilled French verbs every day"; "Pianists practice scales"
	8.	read - indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments; "The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero"; "The gauge read `empty'"record, register, showsay - indicate; "The clock says noon"show - give evidence of, as of records; "The diary shows his distress that evening"strike - indicate (a certain time) by striking; "The clock struck midnight"; "Just when I entered, the clock struck"indicate - to state or express briefly; "indicated his wishes in a letter"
	9.	read - audition for a stage role by reading parts of a role; "He is auditioning for `Julius Caesar' at Stratford this year"performing arts - arts or skills that require public performanceaudition, try out - perform in order to get a role; "She auditioned for a role on Broadway"
	10.	read - to hear and understand; "I read you loud and clear!"understand - know and comprehend the nature or meaning of; "She did not understand her husband"; "I understand what she means"read, take - interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression; "I read this address as a satire"; "How should I take this message?"; "You can't take credit for this!"
	11.	read - make sense of a language; "She understands French"; "Can you read Greek?"translate, understand, interpretunderstand - know and comprehend the nature or meaning of; "She did not understand her husband"; "I understand what she means"

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verb1. scan, study, look at, refer to, glance at, pore over, peruse, run your eye over He read through the pages slowly and carefully.2. recite, deliver, utter, declaim, speak, announce Jay reads poetry so beautifully.3. understand, interpret, comprehend, construe, decipher, perceive the meaning of, see, discover He could read words at 18 months.4. register, show, record, display, indicate The sign on the bus read 'Private: Not in Service'.5. interpret, take, understand, explain, define, translate, make sense of, decode, construe, decipher, throw light on, explicate Now how do you read his remarks on that subject?6. study, take, major in (U.S.) He is now reading maths at Harvard.7. predict, forecast, divine, foresee, prophecy, foretell If I had been able to read the future, I would never have taken this job.noun1. perusal, look (through), study, leaf (through), glance (through), scan, flick (through), scrutiny I had a read before starting on the washing of the kitchen ceiling.read something into something infer from, read between the lines, assume from, interpolate from It would be wrong to try to read too much into such a light-hearted production.read up on something study, learn, bone up on (informal), swot up on (Brit. informal), mug up on (Brit. slang) I've read up on the dangers of all these drugs.Quotations
"Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest" Book of Common Prayer

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verb1. To perceive and recognize the meaning of:accept, apprehend, catch (on), compass, comprehend, conceive, fathom, follow, get, grasp, make out, see, sense, take, take in, understand.Informal: savvy.Slang: dig.Chiefly British: twig.Scots: ken.Idioms: get a handle on, get the picture.2. To understand in a particular way:construe, interpret, take.3. To give a precise indication of, as on a register or scale:indicate, mark, record, register, show.

Translations

阅读一段阅读时间攻读文章或信内容是朗读

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(riːd) – past tense, past participle read (red) – verb1. to look at and understand (printed or written words or other signs). Have you read this letter?; Can your little girl read yet?; Can anyone here read Chinese?; to read music; I can read (= understand without being told) her thoughts/mind.阅读2. to learn by reading. I read in the paper today that the government is going to cut taxes again.获悉3. to read aloud, usually to someone else. I read my daughter a story before she goes to bed; I read to her before she goes to bed.朗读4. to pass one's time by reading books etc for pleasure etc. I don't have much time to read these days.阅读5. to study (a subject) at a university etc. 攻读6. to look at or be able to see (something) and get information from it. I can't read the clock without my glasses; The nurse read the thermometer.辨认7. to be written or worded; to say. His letter reads as follows: `Dear Sir, ...' （文章或信）内容是 8. (of a piece of writing etc) to make a (good, bad etc) impression. This report reads well.读起来9. (of dials, instruments etc) to show a particular figure, measurement etc. The thermometer reads –5C.读数是10. to (cause a word, phrase etc to) be replaced by another, eg in a document or manuscript. There is one error on this page – For `two yards', read `two metres'; `Two yards long' should read `two metres long'. （在勘误表中）用...代替 noun the act, or a period, of reading. I like a good read before I go to sleep.一段阅读时间ˈreadable adjective (negative unreadable). 1. easy or pleasant to read. I don't usually enjoy poetry but I find these poems very readable. 使人爱读的，易读的 2. able to be read. Your handwriting is scarcely readable. （笔迹）清楚的 ˈreadableness noun 清楚易读，值得一读 ˌreadaˈbility noun 易读，可读性有趣味 ˈreader noun1. a person who reads books, magazines etc. He's a keen reader.读者2. a person who reads a particular newspaper, magazine etc. The editor asked readers to write to him with their opinions.读者3. a reading-book, especially for children or for learners of a foreign language. a Latin reader.读本ˈreadership noun the (number of) people who read a newspaper, magazine etc. 读者（总数） ˈreading noun1. the act of reading. 读2. the reading of something aloud, as a (public) entertainment. a poetry reading.朗诵3. the ability to read. The boy is good at reading.阅读能力4. the figure, measurement etc on a dial, instrument etc. The reading on the thermometer was –5 C.读数reading-1. for the purpose of reading. reading-glasses; a reading-room in a library.供阅读用的2. for learning to read. a reading-book.学习阅读用的ˈreading material noun a list of books, stories, articles etc that need to be read for one's studies. 阅读资料ˈreading matter noun something written for others to read (eg books, newspapers, letters). There's a lot of interesting reading matter in our local library.读物ˈread-out – plural ˈread-outs – noun data produced by a computer, eg on magnetic or paper tape. 读出read between the lines to look for or find information (eg in a letter) which is not actually stated. 体会字里行间的言外之意read off to read from a dial, instrument etc. The engineer read off the temperatures one by one.读取read on to continue to read; to read further. He paused for a few moments, and then read on.继续读read out to read aloud. Read out the answers to the questions.宣读read over/through to read from beginning to end. I'll read through your manuscript, and let you know if I find any mistakes. 重通读，仔细阅读

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