| 单词 | to run and read |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto run and read (b) to run and read: (a) to read with easy understanding; (b) to read cursorily or hurriedly. ΚΠ 1597 Bp. J. King Lect. Ionas xix. 260 Those [books] of Moses, the Prophetes, the Psalmes, of Christ and his blessed Apostles, wherein we may runne and read the ordinances of the most High. 1631 T. Taylor Regula Vitae v. 87 Let them runne and reade these places. Prov. 19.17... Matth: 10.42. [etc.] 1656 W. Sanderson Compl. Hist. Mary & James VI ii. 281 We may discern the handwriting of his [sc. God's] Decree to be his Character, but not thereby his Sense; yet this we presume to run and reade. 1701 W. Anstruther Ess. ii. 60 Our Zeal..perswades us we may run and Read the uprightness of a Man..by this glaring Light of Prosperity and Success. 1783 H. Swinburne Trav. in Two Sicilies I. Pref. p. vii He every day becomes more conscious of the presumption of those who run and read. 1816 Ann. Philos. 7 215 My deductions must have been stated in such way as not to be easily understood, at least by the generality of readers who may be said to run and read. 1859 J. Williams Lett. Anglican Orders xvi. 192 That they..could by thus running and reading, detect a fraud in a cleverly managed register was impossible. 1922 Rotarian June 293/1 I asked him to tell me his story some day that I might set it down for those who run and read. 1947 R. B. McCallum & A. Readman Brit. Gen. Election 1945 xiii. 241 For those who cared to run and read, the News Chronicle had throughout the election provided the most reliable index of popular opinion in its famous ‘Gallup’ polls. 1998 Hindu (Nexis) 10 Nov. The English law of evidence is not a subject which he who runs and reads may easily imbibe. < as lemmas |
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