reader

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read·er /ˈriːdə $ -ər/ S3 W2 noun [countableC]

1 SB who reads 读者READ someone who reads books, or who reads in a particular way 读者；〔以某种方式〕阅读的人

The book will appeal to young readers.

这本书会吸引年轻读者。

I’ve always been an avid reader (=someone who reads a lot).

我向来是一个嗜书如命的人。

reader of

He’s a great reader of crime fiction.

他是个犯罪小说迷。

a fast/slow reader 读书快/慢的人

2 of a newspaper/magazine 报纸/杂志的TCNREAD someone who reads a particular newspaper or magazine regularly 〔某报纸、杂志的〕读者

The newspaper gradually lost readers during the 1980s.

20 世纪80年代这份报纸逐渐失去了读者。

3. book 书TCN an easy book for children who are learning to read or for people who are learning a foreign language （初级）读本，简易读物

n4. → Reader

5. equipment 设备 technical a piece of electronic equipment that can read information that is stored or recorded somewhere, for example on a card 阅读器

→ mind reader , newsreader

n COLLOCATIONS

adjectives

a slow/fast reader

Her son was quite a slow reader.

a good reader

He's not a good reader but he wants to try a new story.

a poor reader (=someone who is not good at reading)

All these students had been judged to be poor readers.

a great reader (=someone who reads a lot of books)

My father was a great reader.

an avid/voracious reader (=someone who eagerly reads a lot of books)

She was an avid reader of historical novels.

Examples from the Corpus

reader• Seitz asks readers if they could imagine Ben Hogan or Arnold Palmer ever going to a sports psychologist.• The average reader of science-fiction is young and male.• Many readers will also be familiar with demonstrations of production of electric power by tapping the energy of winds and tides.• Share your thoughts with other readers by writing to Anne at Machine Knitting Monthly.• All Ms Atwood's readers will be delighted with her latest book.• At this point in the novel, the reader still does not know the hero's true identity.• Obviously, what the poet communicates to the reader in this poem is a complex reflection of her current mental state.• We leave it to the reader to appreciate what this will mean in due course, as work on oneself progresses.• Scientists are still not certain about this in spite of what the reader might believe.• Her books appeal especially to women readers.• The magazine needs to attract more young readers.

avid reader• I have long been a avid reader of books about islands.• I am an avid reader of your magazine and eagerly look forward to each month's issue.• The library was a room which the Empress used constantly, for she was all her life an avid reader.• Reagan was an avid reader of the conservative monthly Kuman Events, and frequently quoted from it at length.• But now she was an avid reader who liked nothing better than to haunt old bookstores.• Many become avid readers, work-out maniacs or bingo fanatics during the six months away from home.

Reader

SECan important teacher in a British university 〔英国大学的〕高级讲师

Reader in

a Reader in Sociology at Bristol University

布里斯托尔大学社会学高级讲师

TEACHER 教师

Examples from the Corpus

reader in• San Francisco Focus' circulation plateaued at 174,697 readers in 1992.• They create tension and actively engage readers in your message.• From our subscription database we know that we have readers in more than 100 countries around the world.• Our readers in Ireland, North and South can pick up their cards at their newsagent.• Doyno notes that an integrated camp meeting itself might have upset some readers in 1885.• A qualified audit report, as opposed to an unqualified report, should leave the reader in no doubt as to its meaning and implications.• Copies were sent free to readers in the forces.

The ReaderReader, Then noun [uncountableU]

na weekly US newspaper printed in Chicago. It mainly covers news, entertainment, politics, and culture.