| 单词 | hearing-ear dog |
| 释义 | > as lemmashearing-ear dog hearing dog n. originally U.S. (also more fully hearing-ear dog) a dog trained to alert the deaf or hard of hearing to such sounds as the ringing of an alarm, doorbell, or telephone; cf. seeing-eye dog at seeing eye adj. 1. ΚΠ 1978 N.Y. Times 21 Feb. 34/1 Representative Frederick W. Richmond Democrat of Brooklyn, yesterday urged the adoption of a federal program to train ‘hearing dogs’ for the deaf and hard-of-hearing. 1979 N.Y. Times Mag. 20 May 111/1 A program for training hearing-ear dogs for the deaf originated about three years ago at the American Humane Association in Denver. 1992 Smithsonian June 12/1 If the animal-rights extremists win, we will have no guide dogs, bomb detection dogs, therapy dogs, search-and-rescue dogs, hearing-ear dogs. 2002 Western Gaz. (Electronic ed.) 24 Jan. Guest of honour at the event, which starts at 10.30am, will be Bentley, hearing dog to a Bournemouth woman. < as lemmas |
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