n. 阅读, 知识, 读物

a. 阅读的

[医] 记录, 示度, 读, 诵读

Read \Read\ (r[=e]d), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Read} (r[e^]d); p.
pr. & vb. n. {Reading}.] [OE. reden, r[ae]den, AS. r[=ae]dan
to read, advise, counsel, fr. r[=ae]d advice, counsel,
r[=ae]dan (imperf. reord) to advise, counsel, guess; akin to
D. raden to advise, G. raten, rathen, Icel. r[=a][eth]a,
Goth. r[=e]dan (in comp.), and perh. also to Skr. r[=a]dh to
succeed. [root]116. Cf. {Riddle}.]
1. To advise; to counsel. [Obs.] See {Rede}.

Therefore, I read thee, get thee to God's word, and
thereby try all doctrine. --Tyndale.

2. To interpret; to explain; as, to read a riddle.

3. To tell; to declare; to recite. [Obs.]

But read how art thou named, and of what kin.
--Spenser.

4. To go over, as characters or words, and utter aloud, or
recite to one's self inaudibly; to take in the sense of,
as of language, by interpreting the characters with which
it is expressed; to peruse; as, to read a discourse; to
read the letters of an alphabet; to read figures; to read
the notes of music, or to read music; to read a book.

Redeth [read ye] the great poet of Itaille.
--Chaucer.

Well could he rede a lesson or a story. --Chaucer.

5. Hence, to know fully; to comprehend.

Who is't can read a woman? --Shak.

6. To discover or understand by characters, marks, features,
etc.; to learn by observation.

An armed corse did lie,
In whose dead face he read great magnanimity.
--Spenser.

Those about her
From her shall read the perfect ways of honor.
--Shak.

7. To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks; as,
to read theology or law.

{To read one's self in}, to read aloud the Thirty-nine
Articles and the Declaration of Assent, -- required of a
clergyman of the Church of England when he first
officiates in a new benefice.


Reading \Read"ing\, a.
1. Of or pertaining to the act of reading; used in reading.

2. Addicted to reading; as, a reading community.

{Reading book}, a book for teaching reading; a reader.

{Reading desk}, a desk to support a book while reading; esp.,
a desk used while reading the service in a church.

{Reading glass}, a large lens with more or less magnifying
power, attached to a handle, and used in reading, etc.

{Reading man}, one who reads much; hence, in the English
universities, a close, industrious student.

{Reading room}, a room appropriated to reading; a room
provided with papers, periodicals, and the like, to which
persons resort.


Reading \Read"ing\ (r[=e]d"[i^]ng), n.
1. The act of one who reads; perusal; also, printed or
written matter to be read.

2. Study of books; literary scholarship; as, a man of
extensive reading.

3. A lecture or prelection; public recital.

The Jews had their weekly readings of the law.
--Hooker.

4. The way in which anything reads; force of a word or
passage presented by a documentary authority; lection;
version.

5. Manner of reciting, or acting a part, on the stage; way of
rendering. [Cant]

6. An observation read from the scale of a graduated
instrument; as, the reading of a barometer.

{Reading of a bill} (Legislation), its formal recital, by the
proper officer, before the House which is to consider it.