read

read out

To read aloud

大聲誦讀

Please read out the names on the list.

請大聲念出名單上的名字

read up

To study or learn by reading

研讀：通過閱讀進行研究或學習

Read up on the places you plan to visit before you travel.

在旅游之前，對你準備前往的地方先作一番調查研究

read someone like a book

understand someone's thoughts and motives clearly or easily

了解…的心思（或動機）；對…了如指掌

read someone's mind (或 thoughts)

discern what someone is thinking

猜透…的心思，知道…在想些什么

read my lips

(N. Amer. informal)listen carefully (used to emphasize the importance of the speaker's words or the earnestness of their intent)

(北美，非正式)請認真聽（用來強調所說的話的重要性或表達說話人迫切的心情）

take something as read

assume something without the need for further discussion

不加討論地接受

you wouldn't read about it

(Austral./NZ informal)used to express incredulity, disgust, or ruefulness

(澳/新西蘭，非正式)太離奇了（用來表示懷疑、厭惡、悲傷）

read something back

read a message or piece of writing aloud so that its accuracy can be checked

朗讀信息（或書面材料）（以檢驗其準確性）；重念，復述

read something into

attribute a meaning or significance to (something) that it may not in fact possess

把…加進對…的理解中去；對…做某種解釋

was I reading too much into his behaviour?.

我是否對他的行為做了過于武斷的解釋？。

read someone out of

(chiefly US)formally expel someone from (an organization or body)

(主美)（從組織、團體）開除，除名

read up on something (或 read something up)

acquire information about a particular subject by studying it intensively or systematically

研讀，攻讀；系統地研究（某一科目）

she spent the time reading up on antenatal care.

她投入時間系統研究產前保健問題。

read a lecture 或 read a lesson

To issue a reprimand

責備：發表批評意見

Mother read us a lecture after the principal telephoned her.

校長打電話后，媽媽批評了我們一頓

read between the lines

To perceive or detect an obscure or unexpressed meaning

仔細閱讀，研究：找出或發現隱藏晦澀的意思

learned to read between the lines of corporate annual reports to discern areas of fiscal weakness.

學會仔細研讀公司年度報告，并從中發現財政困難的跡象

read out of

To expel by proclamation from a social, political, or other group

驅逐，開除：被正式文告從社會、政治或其它集團中驅逐

He was read out of the secretariat after the embarrassing incident.

由于那次尷尬的事件，他被從秘書處開除了