listen

英 ['l?s(?)n] 美['l?sn]

TEM4CET4考研CET6中高頻詞常用詞匯

第三人稱單數(shù):?listens;過去式:?listened;過去分詞:?listened;現(xiàn)在分詞:?listening;

listen 聽，傾聽，留心聽

來自PIE*kleu,聽，詞源同loud,可能來自PIE*klei,彎，傾斜，詞源同lean,incline,-st，過去分詞后綴。引申詞義傾聽，留心聽，聽。

listen: listen: [OE] The Indo-European base *kludenoted ‘hearing’ (it is the ultimate source of English loud). From its extended form *kluswere derived in prehistoric Germanic the noun *khlustiz ‘hearing’, which eventually produced the now archaic English verb list ‘listen’, and the verb *khlusnōjan ‘hear’, which became English listen.
=> loud
listen (v.): Old English hlysnan "to listen," from Proto-Germanic *khlusinon (cognates: Dutch luisteren, Old High German hlosen "to listen," German lauschen "to listen"), from PIE root *kleu- "hearing, to hear" (cognates: Sanskrit srnoti "hears," srosati "hears, obeys;" Avestan sraothra "ear;" Middle Persian srod "hearing, sound;" Lithuanian klausau "to hear," slove "splendor, honor;" Old Church Slavonic slusati "to hear," slava "fame, glory," slovo "word;" Greek klyo "hear, be called," kleos "report, rumor, fame glory," kleio "make famous;" Latin cluere "to hear oneself called, be spoken of;" Old Irish ro-clui-nethar "hears," clunim "I hear," clu "fame, glory," cluada "ears;" Welsh clywaf "I hear;" Old English hlud "loud," hleoeor "tone, tune;" Old High German hlut "sound;" Gothic hilut "listening, attention"). The -t- probably is by influence of Old English hlystan (see list (v.2)). For vowel evolution, see bury. As a noun from 1788 (on the listen "alert").

4. A patient will usually listen to the doctor'sadvice and act on it.: 患者通常都會(huì)遵照醫(yī)囑行事。

5. He got his coffee, came back and settled down to listen.: 他喝了杯咖啡，回來后開始認(rèn)真聽講。