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单词 to close one's ears
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to close (also †dit, shut, †tine) one's ears (occasionally ear)
g. to close (also †dit, shut, †tine) one's ears (occasionally ear): to refuse to listen. Cf. to open one's ears at open v. 3c.See also to stop one's ears at stop v. 8a, to turn a deaf ear at deaf adj. 2.
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OE Vercelli Homilies (1992) x. 200 Þonn[e] hie gehyrdon þine bec rædan & þin godspel secgan.., hy symle hiera earan dytton [Corpus Cambr. 421 fordyttan] & hit gehyran noldon.
a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 49 (MED) Þe mon þe tuneð his eren..toȝeines godes laȝe and nule noht iheren þe weordes.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 19452 Þa wreches..gun þair erin for to ditt.
a1500 tr. La Belle Dame sans Mercy (Cambr.) l. 332 in F. J. Furnivall Polit., Relig., & Love Poems (1903) 92 (MED) Sone thei cane..to fayr speche lyghtly þair yeres close.
1589 R. Humpston Serm. preached at Reyfham sig. D2 The Lorde hath not shut his eares at the pitifull moane and crye of so manie widdowes and desolate Orphanes.
1660 J. Trapp Comm. Holy Script. (Prov. xxviii. 27) 190 He will shut his ears to such a mans moans in misery.
1740 Gentleman's Mag. Oct. 520/1 We, like wise Ulysses, close our ear To songs which Liberty forbids to hear!
1878 E. Jenkins Haverholme 7 That to which for long humane and Christian people had shut their ears..sounded forth with an irrepressible clarion.
1959 J. Braine Vodi ii. 39 He only had to say, ‘Bloody nonsense’ or ‘Kid's stuff, Coverack’ and close his ears to Tom.
1998 S. Faulks Charlotte Gray i. i. 5 Gregory opened the throttle wider and closed his ears to the engine's screaming.
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