斜面书桌, 读经台

[ noun ]
desk or stand with a slanted top used to hold a text at the proper height for a lecturer
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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.