lip-reading
noun [ U ] uk/ˈlɪpˌriː.dɪŋ/ us/ˈlɪpˌriː.dɪŋ/
唇读;观唇辨意
a way of understanding what someone is saying by watching the movements of their mouth
Young deaf people expect to use speech and lip-reading with hearing people. 年轻的聋人希望与健听的人用语言和读唇术交流。
Lip-reading skills were of little use because her vocabulary was so small. 因为她的词汇量太小，所以唇读的技巧没什么用。
See: lip-read
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- She became qualified to teach lip-reading.
- Real lip-reading depends on figuring out the words most likely to be spoken in a given context.
- She remembers her own struggle to learn lip-reading in a "hearing" family.