| 词汇 | cloth-eared |
| 释义 | cloth-eared adjective UKinformaluk /ˈklɒθˌɪəd/ us /ˈklɑːθˌɪrd/ not having the ability to appreciate(= to enjoy and make good judgments about) music or the way that words sound: People who love this record may think I'm cloth-eared and unperceptive. The theatres are full of cloth-eared tourists. not able to hear or understand well: 听觉不灵的，听不到的；没听懂的 Why don't you listen for a change, you cloth-eared idiot? They are too cloth-eared to pay attention to warnings about climate change. You'd have to be either cloth-eared or unforgiveably snobbish not to enjoy their music. Even the most cloth-eared listener could find something to appreciate here. It's an awful, cloth-eared translation, full of anachronisms. The poet has been so praised for his technical skills that few people seem to have noticed how cloth-eared he has become. The conference speeches were full of cloth-eared phrases, uttered without irony. Inability and awkwardness accident-prone adorkable all thumbsidiom amateurish amateurishly fumblingly functional illiteracy gauche gauchely gawkily inexpertly jack-of-all-trades jack-of-all-trades, master of noneidiom klutzy like a bull in a china shopidiom uncoordinated uneducable unenterprising unequal ungainly You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Musical performances Stupid and silly Stupid and silly people Not paying attention Examples of cloth-earedcloth-eared We now have someone apparently so cloth-eared that he can predict what we will say. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This record could be hazardous to the health of cloth-eared nincompoops. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. 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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