| 单词 | ready |
| 释义 | adjective | noun | verb readyready1 /ˈrɛdi/ ●●● S1 W1 adjective 1PREPARED [not before noun] prepared for what you are going to do: Wait a minute. I’m not ready.ready to do something Are you guys ready to go?ready for I don’t feel ready for the test.almost/just about/nearly ready We’re almost ready to eat.get (somebody) ready (for something) She’s still getting ready for work. You have to be ready for anything (=prepared to deal with anything that happens) if you want to win. Ok, are we all ready to roll (=ready to start doing something)?2FOR IMMEDIATE USE [not before noun] something that is ready has been prepared and can be used, eaten, etc. immediately: Is dinner ready yet? Your dry cleaning will be ready on Thursday.ready for Is everything ready for the exhibition? Can you get breakfast ready for the kids? I’ve got to have this report ready by Monday morning.ready to use/eat/cook etc. The potatoes are ready to cook.ready to be used/eaten/cooked etc. These letters are ready to be mailed. The bulldozers are ready and waiting (=used to emphasize that something is ready).make something ready literary: The ship was made ready to sail.3WANTING something ready for something spoken feeling that you want something to happen immediately, especially because you cannot deal with a bad situation much longer: You must be ready for a drink after all that hard work.4ABOUT TO DO something ready to do something informal about to do something, or feeling strongly as if you could do something: I was just getting ready to call you. By the end I was ready to scream (=I felt frustrated enough to scream).5WILLING willing and quick to do or give something: ready with Jim’s father is always ready with advice.ready to do something Management was ready to declare the project a failure. There are hundreds of people who are ready, willing, and able (=used to emphasize that they are very willing) to work, but there aren’t any jobs here.6QUICK [only before noun] quick or available without delay: a ready answer On the Internet, you have ready access to huge amounts of information.7ready money/cash money that can be spent at once in coins or paper money: He was only willing to sell it for ready cash.8(get) ready, (get) set, go! spoken used to tell people to start a race[Origin: 1100–1200 Old English ræde prepared] → see also readily, readiness, rough and ready at rough1 (14) adjective | noun | verb readyready2 noun formal at the ready available to be used immediately: The crowd stood around, cameras at the ready. adjective | noun | verb readyready3 verb (readies, readied, readying) [transitive] formal to make something ready |
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