ream
ream 英 [ri:m] 美 [rim]
vt. 榨取（果汁等）；扩展；挖 n. 令（纸张的计数单位）；大量
进行时:reaming 过去式:reamed 过去分词:reamed 第三人称单数:reams 名词复数:reams
- A ream is a quantity of paper sold in a bundle, once comprised of 480 sheets but now rounded up to 500. If you write reams of love letters to your beloved, I hope she appreciates them. Or at least recycles.
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- vt. 榨取（果汁等）；扩展；挖
- n. 令（纸张的计数单位）；大量
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1. The Platinum Crystal in Arkansas is uniquely programmed to interface with Parallel Universes and the Angelic ream of anti-matter.
在阿肯色州的白金水晶受独特的编程而成为平行宇宙与反物质的天使界之界面。
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2. He was allegedly captured on camera walking to the tenant's restaurant with a ream of toilet paper, pulling his pants down, squatting and defecating.
切雷托，来自马士菲，据称，独自放下包裹，被摄像头拍到带着大量厕纸径直走入房客的旅店，脱下裤子，蹲下并排便。
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3. That stirring sunlight, plentiful vine, and wine in the kiln urn with wine bottle, played to ring the ream the glad music in mind.
那撩人的阳光，茂盛的葡萄藤，以及窑中的酒缸和酒瓶，奏响了令心灵愉悦的音乐。
- ream (n.1) measure of paper, mid-14c., from Old French reyme, from Spanish resma, from Arabic rizmah "bundle" (of paper), from rasama "collect into a bundle." The Moors brought manufacture of cotton paper to Spain.
- ream (n.2) "cream" (obsolete), Old English ream, from Proto-Germanic *raumoz (source also of Middle Dutch and Dutch room, German Rahm), of uncertain origin.
- ream (v.) "to enlarge a hole," 1815, probably a southwest England dialectal survival from Middle English reme "to make room, open up," from Old English ryman "widen, extend, enlarge," from Proto-Germanic *rumijan (source also of Old Saxon rumian, Old Norse ryma, Old Frisian rema, Old High German rumen "to make room, widen"), from *rumaz "spacious" (see room (n.)). Slang meaning "to cheat, swindle" first recorded 1914; anal sex sense is from 1942. To ream (someone) out "scold, reprimand" is recorded from 1950.
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