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to hear
HSK 1
hearing / listening ability
HSK 3
pleasant to hear
HSK 1
to attend a lecture / to listen to a talk
HSK 2
to hear
HSK 1
(of a pupil) to write down (in a dictation exercise); dictation / (music) to transcribe by ear
HSK 1
to hear (sth said) / one hears (that) / hearsay / listening and speaking
HSK 2
to ask about / to make some inquiries / to ask around
HSK 3
unpleasant to hear / coarse / vulgar / offensive / shameful
HSK 2
audience / listeners
HSK 3
to listen to (a radio broadcast)
HSK 3
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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
shocking / horrifying / atrocious / terrible
HSK 7-9
to hear (news); to listen to
HSK 6
to do what one is told / obedient
HSK 7-9
pleasant to listen to
HSK 7-9
to see, hear and obey (idiom); to take advice / to take sb at his word
to sound like
to eavesdrop / to monitor (secretly)
to sound (difficult, worthwhile etc) / to seem
listen to both sides and you will be enlightened; heed only one side and you will remain ignorant (idiom)
to understand (on hearing) / to catch (what is spoken)
hearing aid
to listen to a performance of pinghua storytelling 評話|评话 / to listen to an audiobook
lit. to believe in the rain on hearing the wind (idiom) / to believe rumors / to be credulous
to understand (by hearing) / to catch (what sb says)
to answer the phone
HSK 7-9
telephone receiver / headphone; earphone; earpiece / stethoscope
what people see and hear; public perception / audiovisual
listening, speaking, reading and writing (language skills)
to mishear
(idiom) do as you see fit / do whatever you like / (I, we) leave it in your hands
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 allow (sb to do as he pleases)
to listen to information / to get the news / to believe what one hears
to attend a class / to go to a lecture
pleasant to hear (i.e. agreeable news) / to one's liking / music to one's ears / Taiwan pr. [zhong4 ting1]
hard of hearing / hearing-impaired
to listen / to hear what sb says / news one has heard
(idiom) ignore your elders at your peril
hear what he says and observe what he does (idiom, from Analects); judge a person not by his words, but by his actions
to take a casual remark to heart (idiom)
hard of hearing
to listen attentively
HSK 7-9
unwarranted talk the listener can take or leave (idiom); sth not to be taken too seriously
to eavesdrop / to wiretap
(idiom) you cannot always trust what you hear, but seeing is believing
to listen (respectfully)
unable to make sense of what one is hearing
(mahjong) to be one tile away from completing a hand / (sports) to be on the verge of winning
to listen attentively
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.
listening comprehension
listening to the words of a wise man can be superior to studying ten years of books (proverb)
to attend a meeting (and hear what is discussed)
to disobey
to let things take their course / to take things as they come
(Tw) audience
(legislative) hearing
to attend an opera / to see an opera
not be able to hear
worth hearing a hundred times
to monitor; to listen in; to eavesdrop
to eavesdrop outside bridal bedchamber (folk custom)
a can (loanword from English "tin")
gossip; hearsay; rumor
Walkman (trademark) / portable stereo
to prick up one's ear and listen carefully
(idiom) to take a laissez-faire attitude; to turn a blind eye (towards sth undesirable)
to be able to hear; can 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
sense of hearing / auditory
evidence of material seen and heard / oral testimony
to listen carefully
frightening words to scare people (idiom); alarmist talk / reds under the beds
listener (of a radio program etc)
auditor (student)
not to listen / to be deaf to
to accept one's situation as dictated by heaven (idiom)
to attend court / to take part in a trial
nice to hear / worth listening to
to make inquiries / to try to find out / to pry
lit. the eyes watch six roads and the ears listen in all directions / to be observant and alert (idiom)
chain of ossicles (in the middle ear)
hearing (law)
to obey an order / to take orders / to accept a state of affairs
fed up of hearing
to obscure the facts (idiom); to mislead the public with prevarication and deliberate falsehoods
to heed advice; to listen to counsel
to judge (i.e. to hear and pass judgment in a law court) / to hear and decide
to listen to the next chapter for an explanation
(idiom) in order to set the record straight; to clarify matters for the public
listener
hear what he says and observe what he does (idiom, from Analects); judge a person not by his words, but by his actions
stethoscope
to allow (sb to act arbitrarily) / to let sb have his head
auditory hallucination
to eavesdrop / to listen in secret to sb's conversations

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