词汇 | harking |
释义 | harking present participle ofhark hark verb[ I ] old useuk /hɑːk/ us /hɑːrk/(alsohearken) used to tell someone to listen: (用于告诉某人)听 Hark, I hear a distant trumpet!听,我听到了远处的小号声! Using the ears attend aurally binaural binaurally catch cloth ears ear earshot eavesdrop eavesdropper hearing hearken lend lend an earidiom listenable monaural monaurally non-auditory overhear prick Idiomhark at someone! Phrasal verbhark back to something Examples of harkingharking In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. But they could also latch on to a more insurrectionary tradition harking back to the ' right of insurrection ' claimed by the sans-culottes during the 1790s. I do not believe in harking back to the past; what we need is a new attitude. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Let us not go on harking back over the years. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He is harking back to a previous age. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is no use harking back to the £2 million paid towards the inspection service. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 No wonder she kept harking back to 1906. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Harking back for a moment, is there a delay in the decision on the third programme? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I would say that that civil servant was harking back to former days. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is no use harking back on our past mistakes. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am sure that, in harking back to 1892, he will find that engineering then was nothing like engineering today. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 You cannot go harking back upon the previous period. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Too much of the debate has been harking back. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This being a consolidation measure, this is simply harking back to existing controls which are supposed to apply to excavations affecting roads. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is not nostalgic harking back to when the matron was the natural head of each hospital. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is no point in harking back and going into great catalogues of calamity perpetrated by one side or the other. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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