| 单词 | ready |
| 释义 | ready (once / 25 pages) adjnv If you're ready for something, you're prepared — you're all set to do it. You're not truly ready for bed until you're wearing pajamas and have finished brushing your teeth. You can be physically ready, like when you grab a towel and sunblock to get ready for a day at the beach, or mentally ready, like when you're ready to rock your algebra test since you studied so much. Other things are ready when they're available, like dinner or a hotel room. If you ready something (or yourself), you prepare for some specific purpose. The Old English ræde meant "prepare a horse for riding," from a root meaning "ride." WORD FAMILYready: readied, readier, readies, readiest, readily, readiness, readying, unready+/unready: unreadily USAGE EXAMPLESOVERREACTION: The Packers are ready to duplicate 2010, win three playoff games and the Super Bowl. Washington Times(Jan 03, 2017) He was ready to get his teeth extracted to relieve the pain. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) They learn to rappel down abandoned buildings and hold their rifles steady, ready to fire, while charging across a swampy field. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) 1adj completely prepared or in condition for immediate action or use or progress get ready she is ready to resign the bridge is ready to collapse I am ready to work ready for action ready for use the soup will be ready in a minute ready to learn to read Syn|Ant prepared made ready or fit or suitable beforehand at the readyready for immediate use fit, primed, set(usually followed by `to' or `for') on the point of or strongly disposed in orderin a state of proper readiness or preparation or arrangement promptready and willing or quick to act ripefully prepared or eager ready and waiting, waitingbeing and remaining ready and available for use willingdisposed or inclined toward unready not prepared or in a state of readiness; slow to understand or respond unpreparedwithout preparation; not prepared for flat-footedunprepared and unable to react quickly napping, off guard, off her guard, off his guard, off one's guard, off your guard, off-guardnot prepared or vigilant unripenot fully prepared 2adj made suitable and available for immediate use dinner is ready Syn prepared made ready or fit or suitable beforehand 3adj (of especially money) immediately available he seems to have ample ready money a ready source of cash Syn available obtainable or accessible and ready for use or service 4adj mentally disposed he was ready to believe her Syn willing disposed or inclined toward 5adj apprehending and responding with speed and sensitivity a ready wit Syn quick intelligent having the capacity for thought and reason especially to a high degree 6n poised for action their guns were at the ready Hyper preparation, preparedness, readiness the state of having been made ready or prepared for use or action (especially military action) 7v make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc Get the children ready for school! Syn|Hypo|Hyper fix, gear up, prepare, set, set up socialise, socialize prepare for social life providetake measures in preparation for cramprepare (students) hastily for an impending exam preconditionput into the required condition beforehand fixkill, preserve, and harden (tissue) in order to prepare for microscopic study mountfix onto a backing, setting, or support lay out, set, set upget ready for a particular purpose or event winterise, winterizeprepare for winter summerise, summerizeprepare for summer primeinsert a primer into (a gun, mine, or charge) preparatory to detonation or firing crop, cultivate, workprepare for crops brace, poiseprepare (oneself) for something unpleasant or difficult overcrop, overcultivateto exhaust by excessive cultivation nerve, steelget ready for something difficult or unpleasant alter, change, modify cause to change; make different; cause a transformation 8v prepare for eating by applying heat Syn|Hypo|Hyper cook, fix, make, prepare make gather and light the materials for keep, preserve prevent (food) from rotting dress, dress outkill and prepare for market or consumption deglazedissolve cooking juices or solid food in (a pan) by adding liquid and stirring escallop, scallopbake in a sauce, milk, etc., often with breadcrumbs on top flambepour liquor over and ignite (a dish) put onput on the stove or ready for cooking devilcoat or stuff with a spicy paste precookcook beforehand so that the actual preparation won't take long whip up, whomp upprepare or cook quickly or hastily concoct, cook upprepare or cook by mixing ingredients lardprepare or cook with lard freeze-drypreserve by rapid freezing and subsequently drying in a vacuum conservepreserve with sugar dehydrate, desiccatepreserve by removing all water and liquids from picklepreserve in a pickling liquid saltpreserve with salt can, put up, tinpreserve in a can or tin refrigeratepreserve by chilling cureprepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve cornpreserve with salt create from raw material, create from raw stuff make from scratch |
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