read between the lines

뜻

to understand what someone means but does not say

말하지 않은 속뜻을 알아차리다.

예문

1. 1Her email sounded polite, but reading between the lines, I think she's quite upset.
2. 2If you read between the lines, the company is clearly planning to close the shop.
3. 3He never said he was unhappy at work, but I could read between the lines when he started updating his CV.
4. 4The review only described the food as interesting, so we read between the lines and ate somewhere else.
5. 5Why can't Anna just say what she means? I'm tired of having to read between the lines.

문법

read만 바뀐다: reads, reading. 과거형 read는 /red/로 읽는다. lines는 복수형 그대로 쓴다.