browse
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(a) [I] examine books in a casual, leisurely way 随意翻阅书刊; 浏览
browse in a library/bookshop 在图书馆[书店]里浏览书籍.
(b) [Ipr] ~ through sth look through (a book, etc) in this way 浏览(书等)
browse through a magazine 浏览杂志.
2 [I] (of cows, goats, etc) feed by nibbling grass, leaves, etc (指牛、羊等)吃(草、树叶等)
cattle browsing in the fields 在田间吃草的牛. browse, n (usu sing 通常作单数) (act or period of) browsing 浏览
have a browse in a bookshop 在书店浏览一段时间.
Apparently what happened was that water collected on these tar pits, and the bigger animals like the elephants ventured out on to the apparently firm surface to drink, and were promptly bogged in the tar.