| 单词 | ear |
| 例句 | ear noun 1.•an infection of the ear:inner ear, middle ear, outer ear. 2.•he had the ear of the president:attention, notice, heed, regard, consideration. 3.•he has an ear for a good song:appreciation, discrimination, perception. PHRASES play it by ear •until we know all the facts, we'll have to play it by ear:improvise, extemporize, ad lib | make it up as one goes along, think on one's feet, wing it, fly by the seat of one's pants. WORD LINKS relating to the ears or to the sense of hearingWord Links sections supply words that are related to the headword but do not normally appear in a thesaurus because they are not actual synonyms.WORD NOTE auricular Originally a multitasking late medieval word meaning "of confession: spoken only to the ear, private," now flattened out into the more general (and probably more functional) "of or pertaining to the ear." In the seventeenth century it became a beautiful synecdoche for one's little finger—the finger most easily fit into an ear. Not recommended for most of us, but surely still of use (in both in its confessional and anatomical form) to poet-types and lovers. — ZSConversational, opinionated, and idiomatic, these Word Notes are an opportunity to see a working writer's perspective on a particular word or usage. |
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