ear

1. N-COUNT Your ears are the two parts of your body, one on each side of your head, with which you hear sounds. 耳朵

He whispered something in her ear. 他在她耳邊低聲說了些什么。

2. N-SING If you have an ear for music or language, you are able to hear its sounds accurately and to interpret them or reproduce them well. 聽覺分辨力

Moby certainly has a fine ear for a tune. 莫比對(duì)音調(diào)的分辨能力一定很強(qiáng)。

3. N-COUNT Ear is often used to refer to people's willingness to listen to what someone is saying. 聽的意愿

What would cause the masses to give him a far more sympathetic ear?

什么能使大眾更富同情心地聽他訴說呢？

4. N-COUNT The ears of a cereal plant such as corn or barley are the parts at the top of the stem that contain the seeds or grains. 穗

American farmers use machines to pick the ears of corn from the plants. 美國農(nóng)民使用機(jī)器收割谷穗。

5. PHRASE If a request falls on deaf ears or if the person to whom the request is made turns a deaf ear to it, they take no notice of it. 不理會(huì)

I hope that our appeals will not fall on deaf ears. 我希望我們的請(qǐng)求不會(huì)被當(dāng)作耳邊風(fēng)。

6. PHRASE If you play by ear or play a piece of music by ear, you play music by relying on your memory rather than by reading printed music. 憑記憶演奏

Neil sat at the piano and began playing, by ear, the music he'd heard his older sister practising. 尼爾坐在鋼琴邊，憑著記憶開始演奏曾聽他姐姐練習(xí)過的曲子。

7. PHRASE If you say that someone has a tin ear for something, you mean that they do not have any natural ability for it and cannot appreciate or understand it fully. 無鑒賞力[usu PHR 'for' n]

Worst of all, for a playwright specializing in characters who use the vernacular, he has a tin ear for dialogue. 最糟的是，作為一個(gè)專門刻畫使用方言人物的劇作家，他在對(duì)話方面沒有鑒賞力。

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