legible是什么意思，legible怎么用
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📰 外刊例句
On February 5th Mr Friedman announced that a three-person team had been awarded $700,000 for successfully extracting four passages of text, each at least 140 characters long, and with at least 85% of the characters legible , from a scroll known as Banana Boy. 2月5日，弗里德曼宣布一个三人团队获得了70万美元的奖金，因为他们从一个叫作“香蕉小子”的卷轴中成功辨认出四段文本——每段至少包含140个字母，且至少辨认出85%的字母。
—— 《经济学人》
—— 《纽约时报》
📖 基本释义
[adjective] (of handwriting or print) clear enough to read
[形容词] （指字迹或印刷）足够清晰可读的
💡 深入解读
Legible 是一个与小站（微信公众号：田间小站）推送过的eligible有着相同结尾的单词，两者可以一并联想记忆。从词源上来看， legible 源自拉丁语legere（阅读），14世纪末由晚期拉丁语legibilis（可读的、书写清晰的）进入英语，也是用来表示字迹、印刷等“清晰的、清楚的、易读的”，侧重指手写或印刷的文字清晰或工整从而易于识别，而非模糊或潦草难认
The lady clad in blue velvet is titular head, and merely signs laws occasionally. Her handwriting is barely legible.那个身着蓝色天鹅绒服装的女士是名义上的首脑，不过偶尔签字批准法律法规。她写的字几乎无法辨认。
Murder was legible upon his face.从这个概念出发， legible 还可以用来引申指“容易辨认的、容易觉察的”。比如：他面露杀机。
📚 名著用例
Hagrid's note was dry this time, no tears had splattered it, yet his hand seemed to have shaken so much as he wrote that it was hardly legible . 海格的便条这次是干的，上面没有洒上泪水，但是他的手可能抖得厉害，所以这张字条很难认。
— 出自《英国作家J·K·罗琳的奇幻小说《哈利·波特》系列的第三本《哈利·波特与阿兹卡班的囚徒》（ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban ）。》
🔍 同近义词
- readable: able to be read or deciphered; legible
- understandable: able to be understood
- intelligible: able to be understood; comprehensible
