[译] 电力公司的职员每月抄表。
[误] The clerk from Electricity Board comes to copy the meter every month.

[正] The clerk from Electricity Board comes to read the meter every month.
[注] read 有“标明”、“记录”（= register, indicate, show）之意。read the meter 即汉语中“抄表”之意。如：The thermometer reads 20℃. 温度表标明 20 摄氏度。copy 意为“抄写”、“仿制”，例如：The students copied the sentences down from the blackboard. 学生们从黑板上抄下这些句子。