| 单词 | at first ear |
| 释义 | > as lemmasat first ear b. at first ear: †(a) on the first hearing (obsolete); (b) with the naked ear, not by way of recorded media or broadcasting; cf. at first hand at first hand n. 1 (rare). ΚΠ 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. v. 17 A third cause of common Errors is..a believing at first eare what is delivered by others. View more context for this quotation 1822 J. F. M. Dovaston Dove xxxii. 97 That the Greek and Latin Measures..can never successfully become English, must be obvious to any Scholar at first ear. 1930 Gramophone Mar. 454 in R. Smith Louis Vierne (1999) ii. xv. 507 I have heard it sound much better at first ear. Probably the microphone cannot yet bring out some of its best qualities. 1951 Musical Times 92 269/2 I have only partly heard them: that is, by radio, never ‘at first ear’. < as lemmas |
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