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HSK
to ask about / to make some inquiries / to ask around
HSK 3
(idiom) to submit to the will of heaven; to resign oneself to fate; to trust to luck
to hear (sth said) / one hears (that) / hearsay / listening and speaking
HSK 2
listening, speaking, reading and writing (language skills)
unable to make sense of what one is hearing
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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])
HSK 1
fed up of hearing
to allow (sb to do as he pleases)
pleasant to hear
HSK 1
(of a pupil) to write down (in a dictation exercise); dictation / (music) to transcribe by ear
HSK 1
to obscure the facts (idiom); to mislead the public with prevarication and deliberate falsehoods
listener / member of audience
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
to understand (by hearing) / to catch (what sb says)
to listen to a performance of pinghua storytelling 評話|评话 / to listen to an audiobook
to obey an order / to take orders / to accept a state of affairs
to heed advice; to listen to counsel
to attend a class / to go to a lecture
to let things take their course / to take things as they come
to listen to (a radio broadcast)
HSK 3
to hear
HSK 1
(idiom) to speak in a pleasant and captivating manner
lit. the eyes watch six roads and the ears listen in all directions / to be observant and alert (idiom)
listener (of a radio program etc)
sense of hearing / auditory
public hearing
to listen to information / to get the news / to believe what one hears
to listen and obey / to comply with / to heed / to hearken
HSK 7-9
to attend a meeting (and hear what is discussed)
to allow sb to do sth at his convenience
selective listening / to hear what one wants to hear
can't hear
not be able to hear
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
to startle sb with scary tale
audience / listeners
HSK 3
(legislative) hearing
pleasant to listen to
HSK 7-9
to hear clearly
to eavesdrop / to monitor (secretly)
to attend an opera / to see an opera
to sound like
worth hearing a hundred times
hear what he says and observe what he does (idiom, from Analects); judge a person not by his words, but by his actions
to listen / to hear what sb says / news one has heard
frightening words to scare people (idiom); alarmist talk / reds under the beds
pleasant to hear (i.e. agreeable news) / to one's liking / music to one's ears / Taiwan pr. [zhong4 ting1]
listener
to take heed of idle chatter (idiom)
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.
to do what one is told / obedient
HSK 7-9
to understand (on hearing) / to catch (what is spoken)
to let (sth happen) / to allow (sb to do sth) / to submit to / to yield
(mahjong) to be one tile away from completing a hand / (sports) to be on the verge of winning
to mishear
selective listening (linguistics)
a can (loanword from English "tin")
lit. to believe in the rain on hearing the wind (idiom) / to believe rumors / to be credulous
listening comprehension
hearing impairment
lit. the eyes observe all sides and the ears listen in all directions (idiom) / fig. to be observant and alert
auditory hallucination
to wait for (orders, a decision, a judgment)
hearing / listening ability
HSK 3
to hear (news); to listen to
HSK 6
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
to hear
HSK 1
evidence of material seen and heard / oral testimony
hearing aid
to listen (respectfully)
to obey / to allow
not to listen / to be deaf to
to attend court / to take part in a trial
audible
to hear but not react (idiom); to turn a deaf ear / to ignore deliberately
tapping device / bug
stethoscope
to hear litigation (in a law court) / to hear a case
gossip; hearsay; rumor
(idiom) to take a laissez-faire attitude; to turn a blind eye (towards sth undesirable)
to shut one's eyes and stop one's ears / out of touch with reality / to bury one's head in the sand
to disobey
(idiom) ignore your elders at your peril
to allow (sb to act arbitrarily) / to let sb have his head
to eavesdrop / to wiretap
Walkman (trademark) / portable stereo
to listen attentively
HSK 7-9
double hearing / diplacusis
to take a casual remark to heart (idiom)
to monitor; to listen in; to eavesdrop
to sound (difficult, worthwhile etc) / to seem
lit. to govern from behind the curtain / to rule in place of the emperor (idiom)
to sensationalize (idiom); deliberate exaggeration to scare people
to eavesdrop outside bridal bedchamber (folk custom)
to eavesdrop outside bridal bedchamber (folk custom)
to attend a lecture / to listen to a talk
HSK 2
to eavesdrop / to tap (telephone conversations) / to intercept and investigate
to prick up one's ear and listen carefully
to answer the phone
HSK 7-9

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