Listening

(noun.) the act of hearing attentively; 'you can learn a lot by just listening'; 'they make good music--you should give them a hearing'.

巴兹尔录入

• Miss Havisham sat listening (or it seemed so, for I could not see her face), but still made no answer. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• He dreaded to hear that something had been said to Mary--he felt as if he were listening to a threat rather than a warning. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• But as to listening to what one lawyer says without asking another--I wonder at a man o' your cleverness, Mr. Dill. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• She struck a light and stood startled, listening. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Before that time we sit listening to a tale, a marvellous fiction, delightful sometimes, and sad sometimes, almost always unreal. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• He could see that the wife of Pablo had turned now from the fire and was listening. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Mr. Moore began to tell us about the Continent, the war, and Bonaparte--subjects we were both fond of listening to. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Then I see still less reason for listening to them. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• I left them still listening to him when I withdrew to attend to my new duties. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• My father slept in the cabin; and I lay on the deck, looking at the stars, and listening to the dashing of the waves. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• Twelve o'clock; well _now_ we'll see, said she, turning, and opening the door into the passage-way, and standing as if listening. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Excuse me, but I think you must have been nearly as mad as he, to sit listening to him. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• I am not listening, Maurice. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• The nightingale's song was then the only voice of the hour: in listening to it, I again wept. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• No third person listening could have thoroughly understood the impetuosity of Will's repulse or the bitterness of his words. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• She vented petulant words every now and then, but there were sighs between her words, and sudden listenings between her sighs. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.

整理:肯尼思