Overhear
[əʊvə'hɪə] or [,ovɚ'hɪr]
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To hear more of (anything) than was intended to be heard; to hear by accident or artifice.
(v. t.) To hear again.
校對:尼古拉斯
解釋/意思:
v.t. to hear what was not intended to be heard: to hear by accident: (Shak.) to hear over again.
埃罗尔校對
例句/造句/用法:
- I suppose nobody can overhear us? 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Have we a right to repeat or to overhear her prayers? 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Daniel Doyce said perhaps he hadn't touched it, but Mr Meagles rather declined to overhear the remark. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- The group stopped beneath my hiding place and I could plainly overhear their every word. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- Seats tolerably in the shade were found; and now Emma was obliged to overhear what Mrs. Elton and Jane Fairfax were talking of. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- You did not overhear what they said? 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- Cassy placed her ear at the knot-hole; and, as the morning air blew directly towards the house, she could overhear a good deal of the conversation. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- It was very well they did--to judge from the fragments of conversation which Margaret overheard. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- It was the man; the man he had followed in company with the girl, and whom he had overheard talking to Miss Wade. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- I wish you could have overheard her tribute of praise; I wish you could have seen her countenance, when she said that you _should_ be Henry's wife. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- Don't undervalue your fighting powers, Maurice, said the Demarch, who overheard this remark; your tussle with Alcibiades was no light one. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Mr. Weller was overheard by his son to murmur something relative to making a vessel's nose bleed; but Mr. Stiggins heard him not. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- I thought I overheard Miss Havisham answer,--only it seemed so unlikely,--Well? 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- But I have stolen away from those who would surely murder me, if they knew I had been here, to tell you what I have overheard. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- You will excuse me, said Holmes blandly, but I could not help overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- Legree could not help overhearing this whispering; and it was all the more exciting to him, from the pains that were taken to conceal it from him. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- One may imagine her suffering on overhearing fragments of this sort of conversation. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Whether he were overhearing too, she could not determine. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- That five minutes of overhearing furnished Eustacia with visions enough to fill the whole blank afternoon. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- I discovered this, from overhearing the lady in the bow-window say to the guard, 'Take care of that child, George, or he'll burst! 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
編輯:桑德拉