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单词 to come to a person's ear
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to come to (also †till) a person's ear(s)
h. to come to (also †till) a person's ear(s): (of a fact, a report, etc.) to come to (a person's) knowledge by hearing.In Old and early Middle English also with dative of person.
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OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1881) I. 196 Þa com him to earan be Agathes drohtnunge and smeade hu he mihte þæt mæden him begitan.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 8138 Teȝȝre ræm, Comm fullwel till hiss ære.
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 10118 (MED) It com þe kinge to ere.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) v. 449 The tithandis..Com to the cliffurdis ere.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Matt. xxviii. f. xliij And yf this come to the rulers eares, we wyll pease him, and make you safe.
1587 R. Greene Euphues sig. D4 If euer..their adulterous practises should come to the eares of Polumestor, a worse mishappe then death should be allotted for their ingratefull mischiefe.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) iv. v. 90 If it should come to the eare of the Court, how I haue beene transformed; and how my transformation hath beene washd, and cudgeld. View more context for this quotation
1690 T. Shadwell Amorous Bigotte iii. 26 You walkt not invisibly in the Prado, nor did you talk so softly, but your Discourses came to my Ear.
1776 H. Brooke Fool of Quality (rev. ed.) IV. 117 Some murmur of these matters may come to her ear.
1834 Figaro in London 30 Aug. 138/2 We mention this case which has come to our ears, but it is only one of at least a dozen indecent assaults constantly being committed by the gang alluded to.
1889 Cent. Mag. Aug. 543/1 From the direction of the target range the ‘stump’ of the Springfields came to our ears, showing that the soldiers were hard at their devotions.
1924 T. Bosanquet Henry James at Work v. 17 ‘Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt,’ was Henry James's reply to a criticism which once came to his ears.
1968 J. D. Carr Papa Là-bas iii. xx. 244 It has come to these ears that you..were sent flying from the scene.
1997 W. Dalrymple From Holy Mountain (1998) i. 5 It came to the ears of the Byzantine Emperor that the monks were in the habit of debauching the daughters of the shepherds who came to the mountain to sell milk and wool.
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