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Trad. 聽
- 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])
Trad. 聽說
- to hear (sth said)
- one hears (that)
- hearsay
- listening and speaking
Trad. 中聽
- pleasant to hear (i.e. agreeable news)
- to one's liking
- music to one's ears
- Taiwan pr. [zhong4 ting1]
Trad. 偵聽
- to eavesdrop
- to tap (telephone conversations)
- to intercept and investigate
Trad. 旁聽
- to sit in on (proceedings)
- to be present at a meeting as an observer
- to audit (a class)
Trad. 聽事
- to hold audience
- to advise on state affairs
- to administer state affairs
- audience hall
- to listen in
Trad. 聽任
- to let (sth happen)
- to allow (sb to do sth)
- to submit to
- to yield
Trad. 聽來
- to sound (old, foreign, exciting, right etc)
- to ring (true)
- to sound as if (i.e. to give the listener an impression)
- to hear from somewhere
Trad. 聽信
- to listen to information
- to get the news
- to believe what one hears
Trad. 聽寫
- (of a pupil) to write down (in a dictation exercise); dictation
- (music) to transcribe by ear
Trad. 聽斷
- to judge (i.e. to hear and pass judgment in a law court)
- to hear and decide
Trad. 聽書
- to listen to a performance of pinghua storytelling 評話|评话[ping2 hua4]
- to listen to an audiobook
Trad. 聽牌
- (mahjong) to be one tile away from completing a hand
- (sports) to be on the verge of winning
Trad. 聽小骨
- ossicles (of the middle ear)
- three ossicles, acting as levers to amplify sound, namely: stapes or stirrup bone 鐙骨|镫骨, incus or anvil bone 砧骨, malleus or hammer bone 錘骨|锤骨
Trad. 聽得懂
- to understand (by hearing)
- to catch (what sb says)
Trad. 聽牆根
- to eavesdrop
- to listen in secret to sb's conversations
Trad. 聽說讀寫
- listening, speaking, reading and writing (language skills)
Trad. 娓娓動聽
- (idiom) to speak in a pleasant and captivating manner
Trad. 以正視聽
- (idiom) in order to set the record straight; to clarify matters for the public
Trad. 言聽計從
- to see, hear and obey (idiom); to take advice
- to take sb at his word
Trad. 駭人聽聞
- shocking
- horrifying
- atrocious
- terrible
Trad. 視聽材料
- evidence of material seen and heard
- oral testimony
Trad. 妄言妄聽
- unwarranted talk the listener can take or leave (idiom); sth not to be taken too seriously
Trad. 偏聽偏信
- selective listening
- to hear what one wants to hear
Trad. 屢勸不聽
- (idiom) refusing to listen to advice or remonstrance; incorrigible
Trad. 危言聳聽
- frightening words to scare people (idiom); alarmist talk
- reds under the beds
Trad. 虛己以聽
- to listen to the ideas of others with an open mind (idiom)
Trad. 混淆視聽
- to obscure the facts (idiom); to mislead the public with prevarication and deliberate falsehoods
Trad. 聳人聽聞
- to sensationalize (idiom); deliberate exaggeration to scare people
Trad. 傾耳細聽
- to prick up one's ear and listen carefully
Trad. 垂簾聽政
- lit. to govern from behind the curtain
- to rule in place of the emperor (idiom)
Trad. 悉聽尊便
- (idiom) do as you see fit
- do whatever you like
- (I, we) leave it in your hands
Trad. 洗耳恭聽
- to listen with respectful attention
- (a polite request to sb to speak)
- we are all ears
Trad. 聽之任之
- (idiom) to take a laissez-faire attitude; to turn a blind eye (towards sth undesirable)
Trad. 聽信謠言
- to take heed of idle chatter (idiom)
Trad. 聽其自便
- to allow sb to do sth at his convenience
Trad. 閉目塞聽
- to shut one's eyes and stop one's ears
- out of touch with reality
- to bury one's head in the sand
Trad. 聽其自然
- to let things take their course
- to take things as they come
Trad. 惟命是聽
- see 唯命是從|唯命是从[wei2 ming4 shi4 cong2]
Trad. 聽天安命
- to accept one's situation as dictated by heaven (idiom)
Trad. 聽天由命
- (idiom) to submit to the will of heaven; to resign oneself to fate; to trust to luck
Trad. 聽牆根兒
- erhua variant of 聽牆根|听墙根[ting1 qiang2 gen1]
Trad. 聽而不聞
- to hear but not react (idiom); to turn a deaf ear
- to ignore deliberately
Trad. 聽風就是雨
- lit. to believe in the rain on hearing the wind (idiom)
- to believe rumors
- to be credulous
Trad. 聽見風就是雨
- 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
Trad. 且聽下回分解
- to listen to the next chapter for an explanation
Trad. 聽其言觀其行
- hear what he says and observe what he does (idiom, from Analects); judge a person not by his words, but by his actions
Trad. 聽其言而觀其行
- hear what he says and observe what he does (idiom, from Analects); judge a person not by his words, but by his actions
Trad. 眼觀六路耳聽八方
- lit. the eyes watch six roads and the ears listen in all directions
- to be observant and alert (idiom)
Trad. 聽話聽聲，鑼鼓聽音
- to understand the unspoken implications (idiom)
Trad. 言者無意，聽者有心
- to take a casual remark to heart (idiom)
Trad. 耳聽為虛，眼見為實
- (idiom) you cannot always trust what you hear, but seeing is believing
Trad. 兼聽則明，偏信則暗
- listen to both sides and you will be enlightened; heed only one side and you will remain ignorant (idiom)
Trad. 眼見為實，耳聽為虛
- to believe what one sees, not what one hears (idiom). Don't believe what people tell you until you see if for yourself.
- It ain't necessarily so.
Trad. 眼觀四處，耳聽八方
- see 眼觀四面，耳聽八方|眼观四面，耳听八方[yan3 guan1 si4 mian4 , er3 ting1 ba1 fang1]
Trad. 眼觀四面，耳聽八方
- lit. the eyes observe all sides and the ears listen in all directions (idiom)
- fig. to be observant and alert