“Legibility” 指“(文字、字迹、印刷体等的)清晰易读性;可辨认性”。常用于谈论手写字、字体、印刷质量或屏幕显示效果。
/ˌlɛdʒəˈbɪləti/
His handwriting lacks legibility, so I had to ask him to type the notes.
他的字迹不够清晰易读,所以我只好让他把笔记打出来。
To improve the legibility of the report, the editor increased the font size and adjusted the line spacing, making the data easier to scan at a glance.
为了提高报告的可读性,编辑增大了字号并调整了行距,使数据更便于一眼浏览。
来自形容词 “legible”(清晰可读的),其词根与拉丁语 legere(读、阅读、挑选)有关;后缀 “-ity” 表示“性质、状态”,因此 “legibility” 字面意思就是“可读的性质”。