If placing it under the tongue, don't do it just after eating something hot or cold; wait ten minutes and then take a reading.

如果是放在舌头下测量，不要在食用冷或热的东西后立即测量，应该在10分钟后再测量读取。

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Put a food thermometer in a glass of water on the middle shelf, where the air temperature is most accurate. Leave it there overnight and take a reading in the morning.

将食物温度计放在一杯水中，摆在一架子的中层——温度最准确处，过夜后，于第二天早上读取度数。

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European monks would take a piece of clear rock, often quartz, and place it on top of the reading material.

欧洲的僧侣们会拿一块透明的石头，通常是石英，放在阅读材料的上面。

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Close reading, the idea that you could take a text and do things with it--that the interpretation of a text wasn't just a matter of saying, "Oh, yes, it's about this and isn't it beautiful?"

当你拿到一篇文章之后,你所能做的不只是说些像,“哦，这是关于这个的，它读起来，是不是很美啊“之类的话“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

it's too easy but it's also too delicious to take this little biographical fact of Milton's college nickname and use it in some way as a tool for reading A Mask.

这简单却有趣,把弥尔顿大学时的昵称记事,利用并作为一种工具去阅读《面具》

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

I think, for example, in my own relationships,talks about my marriage, where I have to be vulnerable, I have to take a risk, where in fact I have to be willing to change my mind about my reading of the situation, based on my own fears and insecurities and anxieties.

举我自己的感情，我的婚姻作为例子吧，在婚姻中我会很脆弱，我必须冒险，而且，我必须愿意去改变自己,对当前状况的解读，不安全感和焦虑的影响而变得盲目。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

They would press it into the chest and the machine would take a reading.

BBC: Hand-held heart test devised

With an accurate clock, you could take a reading from the sun at noon and figure out your longitude.

FORBES: Connect

Mr Barnard said their first measurement had been so close, OS had asked them to go back and take a second reading.

BBC: Ordnance Survey confirms mountain status for Thack Moor