| 词汇 | half an eye/ear |
| 释义 | half an eye/earhalf an eye/ear if you have half an eye on something, or if you are listening with half an ear, you are giving only part of your attention to it 心不在焉[不全神贯注]地看/听 He listened with only half an ear and his thoughts wandered. 他心不在焉地听着，思绪游移不定。 The teacher kept half an eye on them all through the lesson. 整堂课上老师分出一部分注意力留意着他们。 Examples from the Corpus half an eye/ear• He told me this and that, but I listened with only half an ear.• Anyone with half an eye could see Susan's antagonism towards her.• With only half an ear for Grigoriev's response, Rostov stared across the room.• She always had half an eye for him; sometimes I thought she watched him as a tamer does a tiger.• Always half an ear, half a mind.• Of course, no government with half an eye on re-election would ever legalise anything it didn't have to.• Allen kept half an eye on the path as he worked.• He has half an eye on where the gun went. → half an eye/ear at half1(4) |
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