资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Pore \Pore\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Pored}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Poring}.] [OE. poren, of uncertain origin; cf. D. porren to
   poke, thrust, Gael. purr.]
   To look or gaze steadily in reading or studying; to fix the
   attention; to be absorbed; -- often with on or upon, and now
   usually with over.``Painfully to pore upon a book.'' --Shak.

         The eye grows weary with poring perpetually on the same
         thing.                                   --Dryden.