The kid can read words, but did miserably on the test.

这孩子能认字，但考试时却一塌糊涂。

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To read words that are new to us, we have to learn to associate a visual stimulus (a letter, or grapheme) with its corresponding auditory stimulus (the sound, or phoneme).

要认识新字，我们必须把视觉刺激(字母或字符)与其相应的听觉刺激(声音或音素)联系起来。

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I turned to the very end of the book, to read the final words.

我翻到书的最后面，读了最后的那些话。

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This was an estimate of the number of words a six-year-old should be able to read.

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We are, in other words, attempting to grasp it in a sentence that might read something like, "What the author means to say is--" Right?

换言之，我们在尝试着在这样一句话中掌握它，作者想说的是--，是吧？

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I have read an entire page full of words and given it zero because it is not on topic.

我读到的是一整篇都是单词的文章,给了零分，因为跑题了。

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The government says phonics - blending sounds to read words - is vital.

BBC: Teachers reject 'pointless' new phonics check

The world's largest online ticket retailer is to stop requiring users to enter hard-to-read words in order to prove they are human.

BBC: Ticketmaster dumps 'hated' Captcha verification system

The Department of Education has also posted generic lessons online, but they don't help students who can't read words, only pictures, Ms. Schwartz-Nyitray said.

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