Decipher

(verb.) read with difficulty; 'Can you decipher this letter?'; 'The archeologist traced the hieroglyphs'.

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• He read as much of his notes to the jury as he could decipher on so short a notice, and made running-comments on the evidence as he went along. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Without doubt it is safe, for no one beyond ourselves can decipher it; but shall we always be able to decipher it--or, I ought to say, will she? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• First, they can decipher all initial letters into political meanings. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• The recording telegraph instruments hitherto noticed impress on the paper only hieroglyphical symbols, which require long practice to decipher readily. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• As a consequence it is frequently almost impossible to decipher earthly messages owing to the imperious signals from the clouds. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• For ordinary copying work, where much time is occupied in deciphering the illegible scrawl, probably forty words a minute is the average work. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• His sisters were gone to Morton in my stead: I sat reading Schiller; he, deciphering his crabbed Oriental scrolls. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• While I deciphered it, Steerforth continued to eat and drink. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• They had a system of writing which has not yet been deciphered. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• And when one considers the variety of hands, and of bad hands too, that are to be deciphered, it increases the wonder. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• The inscriptions the sightseers scribbled upon the walls remain to this day, and many of them have been deciphered and published. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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