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| 1. v. to read | |
| чита́ть про себя́ — to read silently, to read to oneself | |
| чита́ть между стро́к — to read between the lines | |
| чита́ть без запи́нки — to read off, to run off | |
| чита́ть запо́ем — to read avidly | |
| чита́ть мы́сли — to read minds | |
| чита́ть вслух — to read aloud | |
| не зна́ет, а чита́ть сади́тся (saying) — learn to speak before you sing (literally: he/she doesn’t know but to sit for reading) | |
| не всё чита́й, ино́е пропуска́й (proverb) — do not read everything (aloud), skip some | |
| не мно́го чита́й, да мно́го разуме́й (proverb) — there is no need to read a lot, but to understand a lot | |
| 2. v. to recite | |
| чита́ть наизу́сть — to recite by heart | |
| 3. v. to lecture, give a lecture, deliver a lecture | |
| чита́ть ле́кции — to lecture | |
| 4. v. to teach | |
| чита́ть курс — to give a course | |
| 5. v. to tell, to say (for the purpose of a lesson) | |
| чита́ть нота́ции — to jaw | |
| чита́ть мора́ль — to moralize | |
| 6. v. to pronounce, to deliver | |
| чита́ть моли́твы — to say one’s prayers | |
| чита́ть про́поведь — to preach | |
| чита́ть рэп — to flow | |
| 7. v. to understand, to interpret, to decipher | |
| чита́ть чертежи — to interpret drawings | |
| чита́ть ка́рту — to read a map | |
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