読よみ下くだす

godan verb (-su), transitive verb

read through; read from start to finish

Only when written 読み下す

Used for reading a text continuously from beginning to end, often with the nuance of reading aloud or reading thoroughly.

• 長ながい小しょう説せつを一ひと晩ばんで読よみ下くだした。

  I read through the long novel in one night.

godan verb (-su), transitive verb

transliterate classical Chinese into Japanese; render Chinese text in Japanese reading

Specifically refers to the traditional practice of converting classical Chinese (kanbun) into Japanese word order and adding kana to make it readable as Japanese.

• 漢かん文ぶんを読よみ下くだして、日本にほん語ごとして理り解かいする。

  I transliterate the classical Chinese text into Japanese to understand it as Japanese.