You'd open a file; you could call read, and it could read an entire file for you into memory if you like.

打开文件、调用读取操作、将整个文件读入内存，都是可以的。

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I would be obliged if you could read it to us.

如果你能把它读给我们听，我将不胜感激。

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In some places, like ancient Greece for example, the wealthiest people with poor vision could have someone else read to them—easy solution if you could afford it.

在一些地方，例如说古希腊，视力不好的富人可以让别人读给他们听——只要能付得起钱，这很好解决。

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But it was a hard struggle. Few of the books she needed were written in the Braille language that the blind could read by touching pages.

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I used it so that they could record all of the books that they read about Japanese culture.

我用它是为了让孩子们能记录下,他们读过的所有有关日本文化的书。

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He wasn't that widely read, I must admit, but it shows us how far pro-slavery could ultimately go.

我必须承认,他的作品流传不广,但他向人们展示了亲奴主义者可以走多远

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She vowed not to open it until she could read it from the stage accepting her award.

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The passport would then have to be swiped through a special reader in order to unlock the chip so that it could be read.

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The document to be copied was placed on top of a sheet of chemically moistened paper, then rolled through a press, which brought the ink of the original through the thin sheet so it could be read from the other side.

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