pore over something

phrasal verbphr v READLOOK ATto read or look at something very carefully for a long time 仔细阅读；凝视，注视

She was poring over a book.

她在专心阅读一本书。

Examples from the Corpus

pore over • Chiodini was poring over a sports paper.• Aunt Bella sat at the table, poring over catalogues, surveying the accounts, calculating.• Chapter Two Sam McCready spent most of the next day, Monday, poring over large-scale maps and photographs.• Ted said one day, poring over maps and guidebooks.• Most evenings, my father will sit in his easy chair and pore over one issue or another of National Geographic.• I pore over the hopeless, resigned faces, the emaciated bodies, the stick-like limbs.• I collect them, pore over them, plan vacations by them, even wrap Christmas presents in them.• The two were poring over them when Simon came into the room.

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