| 释义 |
under-ˈread, v.
[under-1 10 a.]
a. trans. (See quot. 1934.)
b. intr. Of a gauge, dial, etc.: to show a reading lower than the true one.
c. trans. Of the reading public: to read (an author, a book, etc.) with less than normal frequency or with less than due appreciation.
1934Webster, Underread,..to take a reading below the correct reading of (a test); to read (a temperature, measurement, weight, etc.) as lower than that actually registered. 1975Daily Tel. 7 May 12/4 Under an EEC directive..it would be illegal for speedometers to under⁓read at all. 1977Lancet 30 Apr. 952/1 The device over⁓read the systolic pressure by an average of 2.7 mm Hg (S.D. 5.2) and under-read the diastolic pressure by an average of 2.4 mm Hg (S.D. 9.3). 1982E. Dipple Iris Murdoch p. ix, Although the role of critic as evangelist may seem questionable, it strikes me as necessary, given the current tendency to under-read and underestimate Murdoch's work. 1984N. & Q. June 274/2 Some progress is made towards consolidating that concept through isolating characteristic aspects of fiction by under-read, minor, and ‘popular’ novelists as well as by those more familiar names later accorded their separate chapters. |