ear

1. N-COUNT Your ears are the two parts of your body, one on each side of your head, with which you hear sounds. 耳朵

He whispered something in her ear. 他在她耳边低声说了些什么。

2. N-SING If you have an ear for music or language, you are able to hear its sounds accurately and to interpret them or reproduce them well. 听觉分辨力

Moby certainly has a fine ear for a tune. 莫比对音调的分辨能力一定很强。

3. N-COUNT Ear is often used to refer to people's willingness to listen to what someone is saying. 听的意愿

What would cause the masses to give him a far more sympathetic ear?

什么能使大众更富同情心地听他诉说呢？

4. N-COUNT The ears of a cereal plant such as corn or barley are the parts at the top of the stem that contain the seeds or grains. 穗

American farmers use machines to pick the ears of corn from the plants. 美国农民使用机器收割谷穗。

5. PHRASE If a request falls on deaf ears or if the person to whom the request is made turns a deaf ear to it, they take no notice of it. 不理会

I hope that our appeals will not fall on deaf ears. 我希望我们的请求不会被当作耳边风。

6. PHRASE If you play by ear or play a piece of music by ear, you play music by relying on your memory rather than by reading printed music. 凭记忆演奏

Neil sat at the piano and began playing, by ear, the music he'd heard his older sister practising. 尼尔坐在钢琴边，凭着记忆开始演奏曾听他姐姐练习过的曲子。

7. PHRASE If you say that someone has a tin ear for something, you mean that they do not have any natural ability for it and cannot appreciate or understand it fully. 无鉴赏力[usu PHR 'for' n]

Worst of all, for a playwright specializing in characters who use the vernacular, he has a tin ear for dialogue. 最糟的是，作为一个专门刻画使用方言人物的剧作家，他在对话方面没有鉴赏力。

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