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单词 overhear
释义
overhear
verb[IorT]
uk
/ˌəʊ.vəˈhɪər/us
/ˌoʊ.vɚˈhɪr/
overheard|overheard
C2
tohearwhat otherpeopleare saying withoutintendingto and withouttheirknowledge:
无意中听到，偶然听到
I overheard a veryfunnyconversationon thebusthismorning.今天早上我坐公共汽车时，无意中听到一段好笑的谈话。
[+ obj + -ing verb]He overheard hisdaughtertellingherdollnot to be sonaughty.他碰巧听到女儿对她的毛绒玩具说别那么淘气。
[+ obj + infinitive without to]We overheard them say that they didn't really like thefood.我们无意中听到他们说他们其实并不喜欢那些饭菜。
I'msorry, I couldn'thelpoverhearing.很抱歉，我是碰巧听到的。
Synonym
catch
Compare
eavesdrop
listen in onsomething/someone
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Using the ears
  • attend
  • auditory
  • aural
  • aurally
  • be all earsidiom
  • catch
  • cloth ears
  • conductive
  • ears are flappingidiom
  • eavesdropper
  • grommet
  • hark
  • hark atsomeone!idiom
  • lend an earidiom
  • listen
  • mishear
  • pin
  • prick
  • prick(something)up
  • sensorineural
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(Definition ofoverhearfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

overhear| American Dictionary

overhear
verb[I/T]
us
/ˌoʊ·vərˈhɪər/
past tense and past participleoverheardus/ˌoʊ·vərˈhɜrd/
tohearwhat otherpeopleare sayingunintentionallyand withouttheirknowledge:
[T]I overheard afunnyconversationon thebusthismorning.
[I]They were soloud, I couldn’thelpoverhearing.
(Definition ofoverhearfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofoverhear

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Several pharmacy users commented on the knowledge and training of the pharmacists, although most also remarked about the difficulties of being overheard in the queue.
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What matters in architects' writings - as in their design work - are those moments when we sense that we are overhearing a conversation.
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Actual readers become like eavesdroppers whooverheara conversation that is not really meant for their hopelessly-biased ears.
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The plot was overheard by the daughter, who, looking forward to the marriage, became sad and alarmed.
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Are there sometimes difficulties because youoverhearsomething?
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Results show that learners who did notoverhearinitial learner utterances were significantly less successful at distinguishing recasts from repetitions.
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Each interview was conducted privately between the par ticipant and a researcher, with no one else present or able tooverhearthe conversation.
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The bilinguals had silently overheard and understood the derogatory jokes by the medical staff.
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Respondents were interviewed individually and care was taken to ensure that fellow villagers could notoverhearthe interview.
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Is it useful for the conversation to be overheard on the link?
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To minimize the possibility of being overheard, participants had the option of entering their response on the computer keyboard rather than making a verbal response.
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It was overheard by the ostler who confided it to other customers.
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Their talk is, however, available to be overheard by other pupils, although initially no other pupil is a ratified listener.
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As readers, we are at once drawn into the role of eavesdroppers overhearing two persons engaged in what seems like an intimate conversation.
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She argues that mastering first and second person pronouns is facilitated by overhearing, and understanding, third parties using these pronouns.
From theCambridge English Corpus
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