adj. 准备好；现成的；迅速的；情愿的；快要…的
n. 现款；预备好的状态
adv. 迅速地；预先
vt. 使准备好
n. (Ready)人名；(英)雷迪
英 ['redɪ] 美 ['rɛdi]
权威例句
- Fraud squad officers had bugged the phone and were ready to pounce.
反诈骗小组的警员们已在电话上安装了窃听器，并随时准备突击。
来自柯林斯例句 - Tamsin materialized at her side, notebook at the ready.
塔姆辛从她身旁冒了出来，且备好了笔记本。
来自柯林斯例句 - Catherine was ready to explode. "I think you're contemptible!"
凯瑟琳气得快要炸了。“我觉得你真是可鄙！”
来自柯林斯例句 - I cleaned myself up a bit, and got the baby ready.
我拾掇了一下自己，把宝宝也收拾妥当。
来自柯林斯例句 - The enemy must be digging themselves in now ready for the attack.
敌人现在一定在挖掩体，准备迎接进攻。
来自柯林斯例句
中文词源
ready 准备好的
来自古英语 raede,准备好的，准备好上马的，词源同 ride,骑马。
英文词源
ready
**ready: **[12] _Ready _is a derivative of Old English _rǣde _‘ready’, which went back to a prehistoric Germanic *_raithjō _‘arranged’, hence ‘prepared’. This also produced German _bereit _‘ready’, Dutch _gereed _‘ready’, and Swedish _reda _‘ready’, and it lies behind the second syllable of _curry _‘groom a horse’.
ready (adj.)
Old English ræde, geræde "prepared, ready," of a horse, "ready for riding," from Proto-Germanic *garaidijaz "arranged" (cognates: Old Frisian rede "ready," Middle Dutch gereit, Old High German reiti, Middle High German bereite, German bereit, Old Norse greiðr "ready, plain," Gothic garaiþs "ordered, arranged"), from PIE root *reidh- "to ride" (see ride (v.)). Lengthened in Middle English by change of ending. Ready-made first attested early 15c.; ready-to-wear is from 1890.
ready (v.)
early 13c., "to administer;" c. 1300, "to take aim;" mid-14c., "to prepare, make ready," from ready (adj.). Related: Readied; readying.
