| 单词 | shut eyes to sth |
| 释义 | shut eyes to sthshut eyes to sth 1 IGNOREto ignore something or pretend that you do not know it is happening 对某事物视而不见 Most governments know that we’re heading for an environmental catastrophe but they shut their eyes to it. 大多数政府明明知道我们正走向环境灾难，却对此视若无睹。 Examples from the Corpus close/shut your eyes to something• Turning off the light, she slid back under the covers and closed her eyes to sleep fitfully until noon.• On a sob Ruth swallowed hard and closed her eyes to the burning sun overhead.• The need to push came again, and Jane closed her eyes to concentrate.• They could not shut their eyes to the ugly and degrading side of wine-drinking and see only the delightful side.• If we must sometimes close our eyes to open them in the myth dimension, so be it.• We can't close our eyes to the fact that our town has a gang problem.• On the other hand the very same development increases their tendency to close their eyes to the future.• I've closed my eyes to your activities long enough.• Prayer May we never become so worldly that we close our eyes to the miracle and mystery of life. → close/shut your eyes to something at eye1(14) 2 SHUT/CLOSEto deliberately refuse to notice or pay attention to something 对…视若无睹[置若罔闻，不加理会] We ought not to shut our eyes to these facts. 我们不应该对这些事实视而不见。 She heard the boys shouting to her to stop, but she shut her ears to them. 她听到那些男孩在喊她停下来，但她不理睬他们。 Examples from the Corpus shut your eyes/ears to something• She shut her eyes against it all; shut her eyes to open them again on to the harmless horizon.• She shut her eyes to shut everything out.• Sometimes she even managed to shut her ears to the arguments going on around her.• Rincewind tried to shut his ears to the grating voice beside him.• Claudia sank down on to her bed and tried to shut her ears to the sound of him in the next room.• They could not shut their eyes to the ugly and degrading side of wine-drinking and see only the delightful side.• We must not shut our ears to the voices of suffering people.• She heard the boys hurling abuse at her, shouting to her to stop, but she shut her ears to them. → shut your eyes/ears to something at shut1(2) |
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