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n. 诵读困难



    word blindness
    [ noun ]
    inability to perceive written words
    <noun.state>


    Word \Word\, n. [AS. word; akin to OFries. & OS. word, D. woord,
    G. wort, Icel. or[eth], Sw. & Dan. ord, Goth. wa['u]rd,
    OPruss. wirds, Lith. vardas a name, L. verbum a word; or
    perhaps to Gr. "rh`twr an orator. Cf. {Verb}.]
    1. The spoken sign of a conception or an idea; an articulate
    or vocal sound, or a combination of articulate and vocal
    sounds, uttered by the human voice, and by custom
    expressing an idea or ideas; a single component part of
    human speech or language; a constituent part of a
    sentence; a term; a vocable. ``A glutton of words.''
    --Piers Plowman.

    You cram these words into mine ears, against
    The stomach of my sense. --Shak.

    Amongst men who confound their ideas with words,
    there must be endless disputes. --Locke.

    2. Hence, the written or printed character, or combination of
    characters, expressing such a term; as, the words on a
    page.

    3. pl. Talk; discourse; speech; language.

    Why should calamity be full of words? --Shak.

    Be thy words severe;
    Sharp as he merits, but the sword forbear. --Dryden.

    4. Account; tidings; message; communication; information; --
    used only in the singular.

    I pray you . . . bring me word thither
    How the world goes. --Shak.

    5. Signal; order; command; direction.

    Give the word through. --Shak.

    6. Language considered as implying the faith or authority of
    the person who utters it; statement; affirmation;
    declaration; promise.

    Obey thy parents; keep thy word justly. --Shak.

    I know you brave, and take you at your word.
    --Dryden.

    I desire not the reader should take my word.
    --Dryden.

    7. pl. Verbal contention; dispute.

    Some words there grew 'twixt Somerset and me.
    --Shak.

    8. A brief remark or observation; an expression; a phrase,
    clause, or short sentence.

    All the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this;
    Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. --Gal. v.
    14.

    She said; but at the happy word ``he lives,''
    My father stooped, re-fathered, o'er my wound.
    --Tennyson.

    There is only one other point on which I offer a
    word of remark. --Dickens.

    {By word of mouth}, orally; by actual speaking. --Boyle.

    {Compound word}. See under {Compound}, a.

    {Good word}, commendation; favorable account. ``And gave the
    harmless fellow a good word.'' --Pope.

    {In a word}, briefly; to sum up.

    {In word}, in declaration; in profession. ``Let us not love
    in word, . . . but in deed and in truth.'' --1 John iii.
    8.

    {Nuns of the Word Incarnate} (R. C. Ch.), an order of nuns
    founded in France in 1625, and approved in 1638. The
    order, which also exists in the United States, was
    instituted for the purpose of doing honor to the ``Mystery
    of the Incarnation of the Son of God.''

    {The word}, or {The Word}. (Theol.)
    (a) The gospel message; esp., the Scriptures, as a
    revelation of God. ``Bold to speak the word without
    fear.'' --Phil. i. 14.
    (b) The second person in the Trinity before his
    manifestation in time by the incarnation; among those
    who reject a Trinity of persons, some one or all of
    the divine attributes personified. --John i. 1.

    {To eat one's words}, to retract what has been said.

    {To have the words for}, to speak for; to act as spokesman.
    [Obs.] ``Our host hadde the wordes for us all.''
    --Chaucer.

    {Word blindness} (Physiol.), inability to understand printed
    or written words or symbols, although the person affected
    may be able to see quite well, speak fluently, and write
    correctly. --Landois & Stirling.

    {Word deafness} (Physiol.), inability to understand spoken
    words, though the person affected may hear them and other
    sounds, and hence is not deaf.

    {Word dumbness} (Physiol.), inability to express ideas in
    verbal language, though the power of speech is unimpaired.


    {Word for word}, in the exact words; verbatim; literally;
    exactly; as, to repeat anything word for word.

    {Word painting}, the act of describing an object fully and
    vividly by words only, so as to present it clearly to the
    mind, as if in a picture.

    {Word picture}, an accurate and vivid description, which
    presents an object clearly to the mind, as if in a
    picture.

    {Word square}, a series of words so arranged that they can be
    read vertically and horizontally with like results.

    Note:
    H E A R T
    E M B E R
    A B U S E
    R E S I N
    T R E N T
    (A word square)

    Syn: See {Term}.

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