| 单词 | to dip into |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto dip into 14. to dip into (a book, a subject of study): to enter slightly and briefly into a subject, without becoming absorbed or ‘buried’ in it; said especially of reading short passages here and there in a book, without continuous perusal.Cf. skim v., to read superficially and slightly but continuously. ΘΚΠ society > communication > reading > [verb (transitive)] > skim or browse or skip skip1526 launch1570 to run over1577 rufflea1631 leaf1663 to run through1670 to dip into1682 skim1739 thumb-read1825 browse1903 thumb1930 riffle1938 riff1942 skim-read1954 skip-read1977 society > education > learning > study > [verb (transitive)] > study superficially skima1586 scum1625 to dip into1682 smatter1883 1682 J. Dryden Religio Laici Pref. sig. b2 They cannot dip into the Bible, but one Text or another will turn up for their purpose. 1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica ii. i. 123 You cannot dip into a Diary but you will find it. 1760 T. Gray Let. 23 Jan. (1971) II. 655 I have not attentively read him, but only dip'd here & there. 1777 W. Dalrymple Trav. Spain & Portugal Pref. 4 I have endeavoured to dip a little into the state of government. 1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature II. xliv. 275 Might not Moses have dipped..in the same source with the authors of the Shaasta? 1877 A. B. Edwards Thousand Miles up Nile iv. 96 We have of course been dipping into Herodotus. < as lemmas |
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