read off

lire à voix haute, énumérer

Lire des éléments écrits à voix haute, généralement en suivant l'ordre d'une liste.

En anglais simple : To say written items aloud, usually one after another from a list.

• Please read off the names.
• She read the numbers off slowly so I could write them down.
• Can you read off the next three items?

Comment l'utiliser : read something off (She read the names off one by one.); read something off something (He read the prices off a printed list.)

Synonymes : read out, recite

Expressions courantes : read off something, read off the names

relever, lire la valeur

Trouver une valeur en regardant une graduation, un instrument de mesure ou un graphique.

En anglais simple : To find a number by looking at a scale, instrument, or chart.

• Read off the temperature, please.
• She read off the pressure shown on the gauge.
• Can you read the value off this graph?

Comment l'utiliser : read something off something (You can read the temperature off the display.)

Synonymes : read, measure

Expressions courantes : read off something, read off the temperature

gronder, réprimander

Parler avec colère à quelqu'un pour lui reprocher une faute.

En anglais simple : To speak angrily to someone because they have done something wrong.

• The boss read him off.
• She read the boys off for breaking the window.
• Did your father read you off when you arrived late?

Comment l'utiliser : read someone off (His father read him off for leaving the gate open.)

Synonymes : scold, tell off, reprimand

Contraires : praise

Expressions courantes : read someone off, read off someone