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单词 one's mind's ear
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one's mind's ear
(b) one's mind's ear: one's auditory imagination; the hearing of sounds (esp. music) which exist only in imagination or in the memory.
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1733 ‘P. Drake’ Grotto 5 The thinking Sculpture helps to raise Deep thoughts, the Genii of the place: To the minds ear, and inward sight, There silence speaks.
1775 F. Burney Jrnl. 6 Dec. (1889) II. 117 My mind's ear..was once more pleased.
1829 C. R. Maturin Melmoth III. xx. 352 She wished in this (to her) terrible emergency, to ask counsel of him whose image was ever present to her, and whose voice she heard with the mind's ear distinctly even in absence.
1884 Jrnl. Mental Sci. 19 510 We may, I think, be sure that some such region exists, that there is a mind's ear as well as the mind's eye.
1946 A. Hutchings in A. L. Bacharach Brit. Music xvi. 207 I do not think that, even now, Rubbra finds it easy to bring off the orchestration conceived in his mind's ear while writing his ‘short score’.
1977 Private Eye 13 May 11/2 In my mind's ear I related the word opera to operating theatre and then everything began to take shape.
1998 G. Delanty Hellbox 42 Even now In my mind's ear I hear your gusto, reviving Every cliché in the book.
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