单词 | to lend a deaf ear |
释义 | > as lemmasto lend a deaf ear d. to lend an ear or one's ears: to listen, pay attention; often with qualifying adjective. †to lend a deaf ear: to refuse to listen. †Also to lend audience, to lend hearing. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > hear [verb (intransitive)] > listen > refuse to listen to stop (one's own or another's) ear or ears1340 to lend a deaf earc1480 to lay to the deaf eara1500 to have (also put on) merchant's ears1593 solder1642 the mind > attention and judgement > attention > notice, observation > listen attentively [phrase] to bow the earc1230 to lend audience1580 to lend an ear or one's ears1583 to lend hearing1603 to prick up one's ears1682 to cock one's ears1700 to have one's ears flapping1925 to pin one's ears back1947 c1480 (a1400) St. Theodora 92 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 101 Þane wald scho..til hym len a def ere ay. 1556 J. Olde tr. R. Gwalther Antichrist f. 197 Here O you Romishe rufflers and moste shameles papistes, lende me your eares a litel. 1580 Sir P. Sidney tr. Psalmes David xxii. ii O God..to my plaint thou hast not audience lent. 1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. B6v The sweeter the Syren singeth, the dangerouser is it to lend hir our eares. 1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. v. 5 To my vnfolding Lend thy listning eare. 1604 T. Dekker & T. Middleton Honest Whore i. ii. 52 Viola. Then lend me your eares. Fust. Mine eares are yours deare sister. 1609 W. Shakespeare Louers Complaint in Sonnets sig. Lv Lending soft audience, to my sweet designe. a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) iii. ii. 74. Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears. View more context for this quotation 1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iv. 269 To sage Philosophy next lend thine ear . View more context for this quotation 1720 W. Congreve Impossible Thing 16 The Clown aloft, who lent an Ear, Strait stopt him short in mid Career. 1777 R. Watson Hist. Reign Philip II I. ix. 246 The king..lent a deaf ear to all the representations that were made to him. a1785 R. Glover Athenaid (1787) I. viii. 210 To all I e'er beheld of regal race, Resembling me in fortune, lend an ear! 1843 J. W. Carlyle Lett. I. 266 A song about Adam that John should lend all his ears to. 1848 W. K. Kelly tr. L. Blanc Hist. Ten Years I. 136 Charles X...lent a cold ear to the..reports brought him by the general. 1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola II. i. 11 The young king seemed to lend a willing ear. 1878 J. Morley Carlyle in Crit. Misc. 202 These are possibilities to which he will lend no ear. 1922 G. M. Trevelyan Brit. Hist. 19th Cent. xvi. 256 The modern English missionary, to whose views..the British government was beginning to lend a credent ear. 1961 N. Roy Black Albino (1989) i. 13 They sometimes lent ears to his talk against Tomaso. 2007 Hello! 17 July 10 Have you been able to lend a listening ear following the breakdown of his marriage? < as lemmas |
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