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hearkening

/hahr-kuhn/US // ˈhɑr kən //UK // (ˈhɑːkən) //

听从,注意听,聆听,倾听

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : Literary. to give heed or attention to what is said; listen.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : Archaic. to listen to; hear.

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Examples

  • "Hearkening and obedience," replied the smith and falling to work on them, speedily despatched them for him.

  • "Hearkening and obedience," replied the other and going before him, guided him to Alaeddin's palace.

  • Meanwhile, Ben sweeps on like the wind, hearkening even in his haste for the welcome "thwack, thwack" of his father's axe.

  • And yet—and yet, hearkening, I caught the same unsteady note that had made me curious of him often and often before.

  • A rank odor of earth filled it; and I never passed that way without hearkening for the insect-like song of the rattlesnake.