a way of understanding what someone is saying by watching the movements of their mouth

Young deaf people expect to use speech and lip-reading with hearing people. 年轻的聋人希望与健听的人用语言和读唇术交流。

Lip-reading skills were of little use because her vocabulary was so small. 因为她的词汇量太小，所以唇读的技巧没什么用。