单词 | keep your ears open |
释义 | keep your ears openkeep your ears open 1 to always be listening in order to find out what is happening or to hear some useful information 时刻注意〔在发生的事或有用的信息〕 I hope you’ll all keep your eyes and ears open for anything unusual. 希望你们大家都能密切注意任何不寻常的事情。 Examples from the Corpus keep your ears open• All of you - walk around Pentonville and keep your ears open.• They had a kid copper keeping his ears open. → keep your ears open at ear(11) 2 NOTICEto keep looking or listening so that you will notice anything that is important, dangerous etc 睁大眼睛看/竖起耳朵听〔以便注意到重要的、危险的等事情〕 Examples from the Corpus keep your eyes/ears open• All of you - walk around Pentonville and keep your ears open.• Go back to bed only when you can no longer keep your eyes Open.• Swing the boat south, keep her eyes open.• The daily firings produced by the withering economy offered loopholes of opportunity for a young man who kept his eyes open.• The basic rules of self-defence are quite simple: keep your eyes open and you can usually avoid trouble.• You know how to keep your eyes open and your mouth shut.• Remembering his duty, he strode briskly up the stairs, keeping his eyes open for any suspicious signs.• By then keeping her eyes open was less of an effort. → keep your eyes/ears open at open1(9) |
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