英语释义

1. to hear without the speaker's knowledge or intention

2. to overhear something

3. to hear (something that was said to another person) by accident

4. to hear something by accident without the speaker's knowledge

片语

Overheard 2风云

Overheard at the Museum博物馆耳闻

overheard communication无意听到的传意

cross talk相声；串音；巧妙的回答

He overheard our conversation他偷听了我们的谈话

overheard contact line equipment接触网

overheard conversation偷听来的谈话

英汉例句

• i overheard them saying they were unhappy.

  我偶然听到他们说，他们很不快乐。

• a young man sitting next to them has overheard the conversation and smiles to himself, thinking it would be quite amusing to see two old pensioners at it.

  正巧有个年轻人，坐在他们旁边，不小心听到了两个老人的对话，暗自发笑，心想要是能亲眼看看两个老人怎么干那事儿的，一定很好玩。

• protection of all herbs was a tradition of the von hapsburgs; birds are often overheard giving useful information; and the golden apples really are from the hesperides.

  保护草药是冯-哈布斯堡家族的传统；偷听鸟儿的话经常能得到有用的信息；而金苹果则的确来自赫斯帕里得斯。

• allen claims the pair undermined him and he overheard them discussing ways of diluting his stake in the firm.

  艾伦声称这两人联合起来暗算他，他无意中听到他们在讨论如何削弱他在公司的股份。

• b:yes.i overheard them talking in the room.

  是的，我偷听到了他们在屋子里谈话。

• cell phone chatter, they report in annoying: the science of what bugs us (john wiley & sons, $25.95), is much more bothersome than an overheard face-to-face conversation.

  他们在一篇名为《是什么在困扰我们的科学》（约翰威利国家出版公司，$25.95) 关于骚扰的报告中指出：偷听别人电话的人比那些偷听别人面对面谈话的人更令人讨厌。

• rooks are found to use ingenious tools; dolphins are overheard talking to whales; and pigs, while not yet flying, play a passable game of football—at least according to the bbc.

  乌鸦会用它独创性的工具；海豚对鲸鱼说的话被偷听了；猪嘛，尽管还不会飞，却已经可以踢一场像模像样场的足球赛了——至少bbc是这么说的。

• more importantly, i overheard that my confinement was due to my power of 「allergies.」

  更重要的是，我偷听到是因为能「过敏」我才被禁闭的。

• writing criticism began accidently, when the editor of the quarterly city lights overheard her in a restaurant denouncing charlie chaplin「s limelight.

  撰写影评纯属偶然，季刊《城市之光》的编辑在一家餐馆里无意间听到她痛骂查理·卓别林的《舞台生涯》。

• some years ago, i overheard a debate between two friends about the name of a startup business.

  数年前，我无意中听到两个朋友关于新企业名字的争论。

• a few years later chidson overheard someone talking about the photograph in the pub.

  几年后，基德森在酒吧里偶然听到有人在谈论那张照片。

• i somehow learned that she went to nightclubs a lot, and i once overheard her tell a colleague that she wanted to be the editor in chief of a magazine someday.

  我不知怎么地了解到她经常去夜总会，一次我偶然听到她告诉一个同事将来有一天她想要成为杂志的主编。

• overheard in a boulangerie in the dordogne last week: 「if you are always ’appy, you are not truly ’appy.

  上周在多尔多涅河的一家面包房偶然听到这样一句话：“如果你总是觉得很快乐，那其实并不是真正的快乐。

• niebuhr once overheard two sunday-school girls say, “he is the pastor to this church.

  尼布尔曾经偶然听到两个主日学校女生说道：“他是这个教堂的牧师。

• waiting in the queue to talk to our serious and elegant history teacher, she had overheard the woman in front dismiss the teacher」s comments about her daughter with a little dash of the hand.

  她在排队等候与我们严肃而端庄的历史老师谈话时，无意中听到前面的女人把老师对她女儿的评语不当回事，还把手轻轻一挥。

• exactly, i overheard a manager scold his employee in the elevator this morning, they were from the company on the 12th floor, i guess.

  正式如此，今天早上我在电梯里碰巧听到一个经理批评他的员工，我猜他们是12楼公司的。

• while i was in an executive’s waiting room, i overheard someone whisper to the secretary about me, “he seems really important.」

  当我待在经理等候室的时候，我无意间听到有人在对秘书低声讨论我：「他真的很重要。」

• a break in the investigation came when a petty thief testified that he had overheard the crowninshield brothers plotting the crime in a gambling house.

  谋杀调查取得了突破，一个惯偷证实，他曾在一家赌场无意间听到克劳宁希尔德兄弟在密谋作案。

• as they were carting away documents and hard drives, an investigator overheard a local prosecutor on the phone, leaking what was being taken.

  当他们带走文件与硬盘时，一名调查员无意中听到了一名当地检察官的电话，泄露了所取走的物品。

• i once overheard someone say, 「he must be a real photographer because he's using a tripod.」

  我曾经偶尔听到有些人说：「他一定是专业的，因为他用三脚架呢。」