đọc thuộc lòng
Definition
- Verb phrase:
- To recite from memory: To speak a text aloud that one has memorized, often in a formal or educational setting.
- To know by heart: To have learned something so thoroughly that it can be repeated perfectly without reading.
Usage Examples
- Verb phrase:
- Giáo viên yêu cầu học sinh đọc thuộc lòng bài thơ. (The teacher asked the students to recite the poem from memory.)
- Cháu bé có thể đọc thuộc lòng bảng chữ cái. (The child can recite the alphabet by heart.)
- Anh ấy đã đọc thuộc lòng diễn văn mà không cần nhìn văn bản. (He delivered the speech from memory without looking at the text.)
Advanced Usage
- The phrase implies not just memorization but also the act of vocalizing the memorized content. It is commonly used for poems, speeches, rules, or religious texts.
- It often carries a nuance of rote learning, a common study method in traditional education.
Variants and Related Words
Học thuộc lòng (v): to learn by heart, to memorize.
- Tôi phải học thuộc lòng công thức cho bài kiểm tra. (I have to memorize the formulas for the test.)
Đọc (v): to read.
- Thuộc lòng (adj/adv): memorized; by heart.
Synonyms
- Recite: to repeat aloud from memory.
- Repeat by heart: to say something memorized verbatim.
- Declaim: to utter a formal speech rhetorically (more formal).
Related Idioms
- Thuộc làu làu: to know something perfectly by heart, inside out.
- Cô ấy thuộc làu làu bài hát đó. (She knows that song perfectly by heart.)