Reading means reciting, or chanting aloud the words to appreciate the meaning, so one must have the words of a text before one can do the reading. As such, how can you read a painting?

读是读诵之意，必有文章词句然后方可读诵，画如何可读？

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He often took a book with him in traveling so that he could do some reading in the waiting room.

他旅行时经常带着一本书，这样他就可以在候车室里读书了。

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Imagine trying to do something as simple as reading the directions on a medicine bottle without good reading skills.

想象一下，在没有良好的阅读技巧的情况下，尝试做一些简单的事情，比如阅读药瓶上的说明。

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She was able to do so by reading the school books before the students did.

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You do the reading before class, you come to class, and you do the homework.

在上课前预习,在上课时认真听讲,课后好好做作业

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Well you have to come with good humor, and that I hope you'll have; come to the lectures and do the reading, see the films, which I'll talk about in awhile, and go to sections, and hopefully participate in sections; and the sections tend to be fun in this course.

上课的时候要有幽默感,我希望你们有,来上课然后读文章看电影,我一会就讲这些,然后进行不同的章节,希望你们能充分参与其中,那些课程在这门课里还是比较有趣的

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More than half said they were using the iPads to do all of the reading for the Project Management course and that they had turned to the iPad to do some reading for other classes, as well as for non-academic reading.

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But so often, it's through the research that I do, the reading.

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Now players big and small say that the world's bookworms are ready to dump the pocket paperbacks and do their reading on the small screen.

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