no obj.
1
- survey objects superficially and in a leisurely fashion, especially goods for sale随便看看：
he stopped to browse around a sporting store.
他停下脚步, 随便看看一家体育用品商店里的商品。
1.1
- scan through a book or magazine superficially to gain an impression of the contents浏览, 随意翻阅：
she browsed through the newspaper.
她随意翻看报纸。
1.2
- with obj. Computing read or survey (data files), typically via a network【计算机】（尤指通过网络）浏览。
2
- (of an animal) feed on leaves, twigs, or other high-growing vegetation（动物）吃叶子（或嫩枝等长在高处的草木）：
they reach upward to browse on bushes
它们抬头吃上面的灌木叶子
with obj. the animals browse the high foliage of trees.动物们吃着高处树枝上的叶子。
1
- in sing. an act of casual looking or reading随意的看, 浏览：
the brochure is well worth a browse.
这本小册子很值得翻一翻。
1.1
- something to be casually looked through供浏览的东西：
this book is a useful browse for a new worker in the field.
对这个行业的新手来说翻翻这本书是有益处的。
2
- mass noun vegetation, such as twigs and young shoots, eaten by animals（动物吃的）植物; 嫩枝, 嫩芽。
WORD TRENDS
The move of browse from the existing sense of 'read or look at something in a leisurely way' into Internet use is a natural one. The metaphor of an animal feeding from vegetation here and there is an apt description of a person moving from link to link rather than searching specifically for a particular term. Almost all of the top collocates of browse in the Oxford English Corpus are now Internet-related， with site， Web， Internet， and website all appearing as objects far more frequently than shelf， shop， or book. Browse is typically qualified by adverbs such as casually and idly, although it can also imply more focused use of the Internet: after about 45 minutes of intense web browsing I couldn't find answers to my questions.
派生词
browsable
adjective词源
late Middle English (in sense 2 of the verb)： from Old French broster, from brost 'young shoot'， probably of Germanic origin.