| 单词 | to read a lesson or lecture |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto read a lesson or lecture P2. to read a lesson or lecture: to teach a lesson or give a lecture to a class, congregation, etc., for the purpose of instruction; (figurative) to administer a reprimand or check.In literal sense not always implying the actual reading aloud of a written text, but usually indicating that the lesson or lecture follows a prepared, received, or doctrinal model. ΚΠ OE Confessionale Pseudo-Egberti (Junius) 189 Swa hwylc swa wile æt mæssetidum lectiones rædun oððe responsoria singan, [etc.].] ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 54 Al þe lecun þe god hefde ired [c1230 Corpus Cambr. ired, a1235 Nero ilered] hire. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 56 (MED) Zuyche byeþ þe miracles þet þe dyeuel makeþ, And huet lessouns þer [sc. in the tavern] he ret; alle uelþe he tekþ þer. c1475 Gregory's Chron. in J. Gairdner Hist. Coll. Citizen London (1876) 230 Docter Ive..radde many fulle nobylle lessonnys to preve that Cryste was lorde of alle. 1575 G. Gascoigne Glasse of Gouernem. i. v. sig. Ciiv If my iudgement do not fayle me, I may chaunce to read some of them another lecture. 1608 W. Shakespeare Richard II iv. i. 222 Would it not shame thee in so faire a troope, To read a lecture of them. 1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ iv. ix. 11 His Wife falling to read him a lowd lesson. 1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure II. 92 Mrs. Cole..proceeded to read me such admirable lessons on the œconomy of my person and my purse. 1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. iv. iv. 157 Dreadful was the fate..and important are the lessons which it reads. 1915 T. Dixon Foolish Virgin ii. 19 She read him a lecture on honesty that discouraged him. 1994 A. Smith Canada—An Amer. Nation? iv. 77 Some of Moffett's fellow Americans might have read him a lesson in what gave Canada its capacity to endure. < as lemmas |
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