browsing [计] 浏览, 翻阅, 监视
- I spent hours browsing in the bookstore.
我花了几个小时在书店里浏览图书。 - A few of people were browsing in the bookstore.
有一些人在书店翻阅着书。 - I’m just browsing.
我只是随便看看。
browsing[ noun ]- reading superficially or at random
<noun.communication>
- the act of feeding by continual nibbling
<noun.act>
Browse \Browse\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Browsed} (brouzd); p. pr.
& vb. n. {Browsing}.] [For broust, OF. brouster, bruster, F.
brouter. See {Browse}, n., and cf. {Brut}.]
1. To eat or nibble off, as the tender branches of trees,
shrubs, etc.; -- said of cattle, sheep, deer, and some
other animals.
Yes, like the stag, when snow the plasture sheets,
The barks of trees thou browsedst. --Shak.
2. To feed on, as pasture; to pasture on; to graze.
Fields . . . browsed by deep-uddered kine.
--Tennyson.
3. To look casually through (a book, books, or a set of
documents), reading those parts which arouse one's
interest. Contrasted with {scan}, in which one typically
is searching for something specific.
[PJC]
3. (Computers) To look at a series of electronic documents on
a computer screen by means of a {browser[2]}.
[PJC]
Browsing \Brows"ing\, n.
Browse; also, a place abounding with shrubs where animals may
browse.
Browsings for the deer. --Howell.
- A mother raccoon and her two babies who fell through a library ceiling were back in their attic nest Wednesday after spending a day browsing through the reference section.
- After browsing listings by subject, author or title, readers can order a work by credit card and get it on a floppy disk, or in book form if it has been published, Barcheski said.
- This universality is evident when you start browsing around the discussion areas -which include everything from pornography to religious fundamentalism to topics in the news. The Internet also provides the means to break down government-imposed barriers.
- A veteran salesman at another Detroit-area dealership that is closed on weekends said most weekend customers are "tire kickers" interested mainly in browsing.
- Take Lydia Nichols, a prospective Honda buyer browsing through the Honda exhibit at the recent Detroit auto show.
- In October last year, while browsing through the FT's share price pages, I noticed that Treatt had a capitalisation of Pounds 7.34m with a share price of 78p.
- Users could then follow their own interests when browsing through electronically stored information, bouncing from topic to topic as they wished.
- Most men said they aren't wild about browsing either.
- However, most customers browsing through the store yesterday failed to contribute to revenues.
- The "Zenda" tale is but one tasty morsel in the autobiography, a veritable salad bar of celebrity browsing: He was married at the age of 19 to Joan Crawford; the marriage lasted a blink.
- Wordsmith My vocabulary's eerie, Half ice and half fire, After browsing in Buckley And William Safire.