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单词 to stop ear or ears
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to stop (one's own or another's) ear or ears
a. to stop (one's own or another's) ear or ears. Also figurative, to render oneself deaf to something, refuse to listen, to close one's mind against arguments, etc.
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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 > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > bias, prejudice > narrow-mindedness > refuse to listen [phrase]
to stop (one's own or another's) ear or ears1340
c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 42 Genim þonne þæt seaw..do on þa ilcan wulle wring on eare & mid þære ilcan wulle for~stoppa þæt eare.]
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 257 Stoppe þine earen mid þornes, and ne hyer naȝt þe queade tongen.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Prov. xxi. 13 Who stoppeth his ere at the cri of the pore.
c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 217 Þerfore stoppe þis gate of þin erys fro þe feend.
1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Obdere ceram auribus, to stoppe the eares with waxe.
1578 H. Wotton tr. J. Yver Courtlie Controuersie 58 Hee perceyued hir eares stopped, and hearte hardened agaynste all perswasions of consolation.
1594 in Publ. Catholic Rec. Soc. (1908) 5 289 It is thought he had stopped his ears with wull at his deathe, for he never answered word to any thinge they said.
1607 S. Hieron Discovery of Hypocrisie 24 When Steuen preached, there was shouting and stopping the eares.
1747 J. Wesley Primitive Physick 51 Drop three or four Drops into the Ear,..and stop it with black Wool.
1815 J. Cormack Abol. Fem. Infanticide Guzerat viii. 127 The avarice of the Jahrejahs, which was so powerful as to stop the ear against the most tender pleadings of nature.
1830 Forrester II. xi. 201 ‘Oh! horrid, horrid!’ exclaimed Peggy, stopping her ears.
1896 A. E. Housman Shropshire Lad xix. 27 And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
2002 H. Kunzru Impressionist (2003) 47 For a while they can stop their ears to the jokes and the rhymes.
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