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  *听* | 听* | *听
to listen to; to hear / to heed; to obey / a can (loanword from English "tin") / classifier for canned beverages / to let be; to allow (Taiwan pr. [ting4]) / (literary) to administer; to deal with (Taiwan pr. [ting4])
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pleasant to hear
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to hear
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to hear
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(of a pupil) to write down (in a dictation exercise); dictation / (music) to transcribe by ear
HSK 1
to hear (sth said) / one hears (that) / hearsay / listening and speaking
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to attend a lecture / to listen to a talk
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unpleasant to hear / coarse / vulgar / offensive / shameful
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hearing / listening ability
HSK 3
to listen to (a radio broadcast)
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audience / listeners
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to ask about / to make some inquiries / to ask around
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to hear (news); to listen to
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pleasant to listen to
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to listen and obey / to comply with / to heed / to hearken
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to do what one is told / obedient
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to listen attentively
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to answer the phone
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shocking / horrifying / atrocious / terrible
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audition / to give sb an audition / to check by listening
to attend a class / to go to a lecture
to listen (respectfully)
to listen to a performance of pinghua storytelling 評話|评话 / to listen to an audiobook
sense of hearing / auditory
to obscure the facts (idiom); to mislead the public with prevarication and deliberate falsehoods
to eavesdrop / to wiretap
selective listening / to hear what one wants to hear
to sit in on (proceedings) / to be present at a meeting as an observer / to audit (a class)
to listen / to hear what sb says / news one has heard
telephone receiver / headphone / earphone / earpiece / stethoscope
to monitor; to listen in; to eavesdrop
ossicles (in the middle ear) / also written 聽小骨|听小骨
auditory hallucination
listener / member of audience
pleasant to hear (i.e. agreeable news) / to one's liking / music to one's ears / Taiwan pr. [zhong4 ting1]
to eavesdrop / to monitor (secretly)
(idiom) to submit to the will of heaven; to resign oneself to fate; to trust to luck
to listen carefully
to obey an order / to take orders / to accept a state of affairs
to listen to information / to get the news / to believe what one hears
to see, hear and obey (idiom); to take advice / to take sb at his word
frightening words to scare people (idiom); alarmist talk / reds under the beds
to attend an opera / to see an opera
to make inquiries / to try to find out / to pry
gossip; hearsay; rumor
audibility threshold
to take a laissez-faire attitude
to eavesdrop / to tap (telephone conversations) / to intercept and investigate
to listen with respectful attention / (a polite request to sb to speak) / we are all ears
listen to both sides and you will be enlightened; heed only one side and you will remain ignorant (idiom)
to attend a meeting (and hear what is discussed)
to sensationalize (idiom); deliberate exaggeration to scare people
hard of hearing
to hear but not react (idiom); to turn a deaf ear / to ignore deliberately
(idiom) do as you see fit / do whatever you like / (I, we) leave it in your hands
(idiom) to speak in a pleasant and captivating manner
to let (sth happen) / to allow (sb to do sth) / to submit to / to yield
lit. to govern from behind the curtain / to rule in place of the emperor (idiom)
to hear litigation (in a law court) / to hear a case
to attend court / to take part in a trial
to wait for (orders, a decision, a judgment)
to shut one's eyes and stop one's ears / out of touch with reality / to bury one's head in the sand
to let things take their course / to take things as they come
nice to hear / worth listening to
to allow (sb to do as he pleases)
to startle sb with scary tale
to listen carefully (for tiny sounds)
double hearing / diplacusis
to heed advice; to listen to counsel
hearing aid
Walkman (trademark) / portable stereo
unable to make sense of what one is hearing
listening, speaking, reading and writing (language skills)
selective listening (linguistics)
to sound like
not be able to hear
to understand (by hearing) / to catch (what sb says)
to understand (on hearing) / to catch (what is spoken)
stethoscope
listener
listening to the words of a wise man can be superior to studying ten years of books (proverb)
auditor (student)
tapping device / bug
to listen to the next chapter for an explanation
a can (loanword from English "tin")
evidence of material seen and heard / oral testimony
audible
chain of ossicles (in the middle ear)
hear what he says and observe what he does (idiom, from Analects); judge a person not by his words, but by his actions
to allow (sb to act arbitrarily) / to let sb have his head
to listen attentively
(idiom) refusing to listen to advice or remonstrance; incorrigible
not to listen / to be deaf to
hear what he says and observe what he does (idiom, from Analects); judge a person not by his words, but by his actions
to hear clearly
lit. on hearing wind, to say rain / to agree uncritically with whatever people say / to parrot other people's words / to chime in with others
hearing impairment
lit. to believe in the rain on hearing the wind (idiom) / to believe rumors / to be credulous
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