| 单词 | lip-read |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslip-read lip-read v. (transitive and intransitive) to apprehend (someone, or what someone says) by observing the movement of the lips. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > a language > [verb (intransitive)] > lip-read lip-read1892 the mind > language > a language > [verb (transitive)] > lip-read lip-read1892 1892 Strand Mag. Mar. 250/2 He..lip read the advocates who examined him. 1892 Strand Mag. Mar. 251/1 He would like to test the lad's ability to speak, and to lip read. 1906 Chambers's Jrnl. 29 Dec. 80/1 An arithmetic class where questions..were not only heard (or, rather, lip-read) but answered. 1927 Daily Express 12 Dec. 10/7 Only a small proportion of them [sc. the deaf] are expert lip-readers; they seem to think it wonderful when some one else can lip-read fluently and they cannot. 1946 Sat. Evening Post 9 Mar. 10/2 Tele addicts contend they see football better than from any seat in the stadium, and can lip-read the signals. 1962 A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio x. 170 My deaf friend preferred to switch it off and lip-read. 1973 C. Carfax Sleeping Salamander vii. 66 Watching, I lipread rather than heard his words. < as lemmas |
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