我跟着老师一个字一个字地读。

I repeated after the teacher word by word.

youdao

你只有一个字一个字地读，才能读懂这篇文章。

You have to read the article word by word to get its essence.

youdao

这位研究生得一个字一个字地读他导师写的东西。

The graduate student has to spell out what his tutor had written.

youdao

We're not going to read every bit of it word for word.

我们不用从头至尾一个字一个字地读。

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