| 单词 | overhear |
| 释义 | overhear (once / 664 pages) v When you accidentally hear part of a private conversation, you overhear it. If you overhear your friends discussing the surprise party they're throwing for your birthday, you'll have to pretend to be surprised. Some restaurants have tables so close together that it's hard not to overhear what your neighbors are talking about. And so many people walk around talking loudly on their mobile phones that it's common to overhear several conversations (or, at least one half of them) just walking down the sidewalk. This is a modern phenomenon, but overhear is an old word, from the sixteenth century idea of hearing "beyond the normal range of the voice." WORD FAMILYoverhear: overheard, overhearing, overhears+/hear: hearable, heard, hearer, hearing, hears, overhear, rehear/hearable: hearably, unhearable/heard: heardest, heardly, unheard/hearer: hearers/hearing: hearings, rehearing, unhearing/rehear: reheard/rehearing: rehearings/unhearing: unhearingly USAGE EXAMPLES“They didn’t even say her name,” one inmate angrily says after overhearing the news conference. Washington Post(Dec 27, 2016) She recounted overhearing Williams say it was “OK to whip a child, just don’t leave any marks,” according to court records. Los Angeles Times(Dec 29, 2016) A surviving flight attendant and a pilot flying nearby also overheard the frantic pleas from the doomed airliner. Los Angeles Times(Dec 26, 2016) v hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers We overheard the conversation at the next table Syn|Hyper catch, take in catch, get perceive by hearing hear perceive (sound) via the auditory sense |
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