| 英语单词 | peruse |
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| 英美音标 | 英 [pə'ruːz] 美 [pə'ruːz] |
| 中文释义 | v.攻读;精读;阅读 |
| 英语例句 | (1) Please peruse this report at your leisure. (2) After breakfast he perused the newspapers. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 请在空暇时细读这篇报道。 (2) 早饭后,他读了各种报纸。 |
| vocabulary简明 | Traditionally, peruse has meant to read or examine something carefully. But informally, it can have the opposite meaning, to read something casually and quickly. |
| vocabulary扩展 | To understand the two meanings, think about the way people like to talk about doing things thoroughly, even when they aren't. If you are visiting a library or a bookstore, you might find yourself perusing the shelves. Synonyms are browse and skim. Peruse is from Middle English perusen "to use up," from the Latin prefix per- "thoroughly" plus Middle English usen "to use." |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [VERB 动词]阅读;读 If you peruse something such as a letter, article, or document, you read it. [V n] [FORMAL 正式]
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