- 1無意中聽到、剛好聽見
If you overhear something, other people’s words reach your ears by accident. They did not mean you to hear, and you did not set out to listen. You are on a bus, two seats back, and a name floats over — you overheard it. You overhear a conversation, a remark, someone saying a thing. Past: overheard. This is not the same as , which is when you try to listen in. Overhear is the accidental one, and it is not rude by itself. Though actually, the old English word could also mean “hear but not obey,” and the German cousin überhören often means you failed to hear, or you ignored it. English kept the “heard it by chance” meaning.
組成over- + hear. From Old English oferhīeran, which could mean “hear” and also “not listen / disobey.” English kept the “hear by accident” sense.
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- hearthe verb this is built from
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
overhearverb/oʊ.vɚˈhɪɚ/
- 1
To hear something that was not meant for one's ears.
- I was hanging clothes in the garden and I overheard the neighbours talking about Sheila's pregnancy.
- "It is incomprehensible," replied Sir Fergus, dropping his voice so that the old man could not overhear.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。