unread
a. 没有人读过的, 读书不多的, 无学问的
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词形变化
释义与例句
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An unread email or instant message.
计算机 工程 数学
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To undo the process of reading.
及物That book was terrible! I wish I could unread it.
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To flag (a previously read e-mail or similar message) as not having been read.
及物 计算机 工程 数学
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Not having been read.
1700, Charles Hopkins, The Art of Love, (after Ovid’s Ars Amatoria), London: Joseph Wild, “The Muse,” p. 36, At first, perhaps, unread your Note’s return’d, Your Person slighted, and your Passion scorn’d.
The book I got for my 18th birthday remained unread until my retirement.
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Not having read; uneducated.
1796, Elizabeth Inchbald, Nature and Art, Dublin: P. Wogan et al., Chapter 22, p. 111, The only child of two doating parents, she never had been taught the necessity of resignation—untutored, unread, unused to reflect, but knowing how to feel […]
1890, Frances Willard, Address before the Seventeenth Convention of the World Woman’s Christian Temperance Union at Atlanta, Georgia, in William Jennings Bryan (editor), The World’s Famous Orations, New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1906, Volume 10, p. 162, […] only those unread in the biography of genius imagine themselves to be original.
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词源
From un- + read.
来源：wiktionary