browse

noun
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  1. the act of looking at a lot of things in a shop rather than looking for one particular thing(在商店里)随便看看
    • The gift shop is well worth a browse.这家礼品店很值得一看。🔊🔊
  2. the act of looking through a book, newspaper, website, etc. without reading everything浏览;翻阅
    • a cursory browse of the book's contents粗略浏览本书的内容

browse

verb
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Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they browse
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he / she / it browses
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past simple browsed
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past participle browsed
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-ing form browsing
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  1. [intransitive, transitive] to look at a lot of things in a shop rather than looking for one particular thing(在商店里)随便看看
    • You are welcome to come in and browse.欢迎您光临本店随便看看。🔊🔊
    • browse something She browsed the shelves for something interesting to read.她浏览着书架,想找本有趣的书看。🔊🔊
    Topics Shoppingc1
  2. [intransitive, transitive] to look through a book, newspaper, website, etc. without reading everything浏览;翻阅
    • I spent the whole evening just browsing on the internet.我整个晚上都只是在互联网上浏览。
    • browse through something I found the article while I was browsing through some old magazines.我在翻阅一些旧杂志时找到了这篇文章。🔊🔊
    • to browse through the catalogue浏览目录
    • browse something I browsed the website for information about the event but didn’t find anything useful.我浏览了该网站以获取有关该事件的信息,但没有发现任何有用的信息。
    Topics Phones, email and the internetc1
  3. [intransitive] browse (on something) (of cows, goats, etc.牛、羊等) to eat leaves, etc. that are growing high up吃(绿叶等高处的植物)
  4. Word Originlate Middle English (in sense (4)): from Old French broster, from brost ‘young shoot’, probably of Germanic origin.