ear
/ɪə(r)/ (bre, ipa) · /ɪr/ (ame, ipa) · /ˈir/ (ame, mw)
ear — 名詞
- earsingular
- earsplural
1. The ear is one of the two body parts located on opposite sides of your head that
耳朵
頭部兩側的聽覺器官
The ear is one of the two body parts located on opposite sides of your head that let you hear sounds. It can mean the visible outer flap of cartilage or the whole hearing system inside the skull.
Rachid's ears felt warm again after he pulled on a thick hat.
Rachid 戴上厚帽子後，耳朵又暖和起來了。
possessive + ear(s) for body part
The doctor used a small light to look inside Nora's ear.
醫生用一支小手電筒檢查 Nora 的耳朵裡面。
medical: look inside someone's ear
Rabbits have long ears that help them listen for danger.
兔子有長長的耳朵，能幫助牠們察覺危險。
The loud noise hurt Christopher's ears, so he covered them with his hands.
巨大的噪音震痛了 Christopher 的耳朵，於是他用手摀住它們。
Linh gently cleaned behind her dog's ears with a soft damp cloth.
Linh 用柔軟的濕布輕輕擦拭她小狗的耳朵後面。
文法句型
possessive + ear(s)
adjective + ear(s)
ear + noun (ear infection, ear pain)
用法筆記
Countable noun. Use the plural 'ears' when referring to both organs. The outer, visible part is often called the 'ear' in everyday speech, while 'inner ear' and 'middle ear' are medical terms for the parts inside the head.
常見錯誤
2. The seed-bearing tip of cereal grasses, including wheat, corn, and barley, where
穗
穀類植物頂端的種子穗
The seed-bearing tip of cereal grasses, including wheat, corn, and barley, where the grains grow tightly packed at the top of the stalk. Farmers harvest these ears once the seeds are ripe and ready for use as food.
The farmer walked through the field and checked each ear of wheat.
農人走過田地，檢查每一株小麥的穗。
ear of + grain type
Each ear of corn held rows of golden kernels ready for harvest.
每一根玉米穗上都排列著準備收成的金色玉米粒。
By late summer the ears of barley had turned a deep golden brown.
夏末時，大麥的穗已經轉為深金褐色。
Birds landed on the tall grass and pecked at the ripe ears of grain.
鳥兒落在高高的草上，啄食成熟的穀穗。
Eitan examined the ears of rice to check if they were ready to cut.
Eitan 檢查稻穗，看看是否已經可以收割。
文法句型
ear of + grain type (ear of wheat, ear of corn)
用法筆記
The phrase 'ear of corn' is common in American English and refers to the whole cob with its kernels. In British English, 'corn cob' or 'maize cob' is more frequent for the same thing. Context from farming, plants, or cooking makes this sense clear and avoids confusion with the body part meaning.
3. A natural ability to notice, understand, or copy sounds correctly — especially m
音感
辨識或重現聲音的能力
A natural ability to notice, understand, or copy sounds correctly — especially musical notes, rhythm, or the sounds of a foreign language.
Luca's ear for melody helps him notice every wrong note his band plays.
Luca 對旋律的音感很敏銳，樂團裡有人彈錯音他都聽得出來。
possessive + ear for + domain (melody)
Eliska has a great ear for accents and can imitate Irish or French speech.
Eliska 對口音非常敏銳，能夠模仿愛爾蘭或法語的腔調。
Playing the violin well requires a fine ear for pitch and tone.
把小提琴拉好需要敏銳的音感來分辨音高和音色。
Kevin has no ear for rhythm at all, so dancing is hard for him.
Kevin 完全沒有節奏感，所以跳舞對他來說很困難。
When Keiko arrived in Boston, her ear for English helped her follow fast conversations in the campus cafeteria.
Keiko 到波士頓時，她對英語的聽辨能力幫助她在校園餐廳裡跟上快速的對話。
- musical ear
Slightly redundant but common; more specific to music than language
- pitch perception
More technical; used in music education contexts
- aural sensitivity
Formal register; rare in everyday speech
- tone deafness
The inability to distinguish between different musical pitches
文法句型
have a(n) adjective + ear for + noun
an ear for + music/language/accents
用法筆記
Always used with a determiner and usually an adjective: 'a good ear', 'a fine ear', 'a sharp ear'. The preposition 'for' introduces the domain (music, languages, accents). This sense is almost never used in the plural — 'ears' in this meaning would be incorrect.
常見錯誤
ear — 動詞
- earpresent simple I / you / we / they
- ears3rd person singular
- earing-ing form
- earedpast simple
1. When a grain plant such as wheat, corn, or barley produces its seed-bearing head
抽穗
穀物長出穗的過程
When a grain plant such as wheat, corn, or barley produces its seed-bearing head at the top of the stalk. This happens naturally as part of the plant's growth cycle.
The wheat began to ear after the first warm spring rain.
第一場溫暖的春雨過後，小麥開始抽穗了。
begin to ear: start of the growth stage
This type of corn ears much earlier than older varieties did.
這個品種的玉米比老品種抽穗早得多。
By mid-June the barley had already eared, producing thick seed-heads at the top of each stalk.
到六月中旬時，大麥已經抽穗，每一根莖的頂端都長出了飽滿的穗頭。
If the weather stays warm the rice plants will ear within two weeks.
如果天氣持續溫暖，稻子會在兩週內抽穗。
- head
'The wheat is heading' is a common alternative in farming speech
- come into ear
A slightly longer phrasal alternative: 'The corn came into ear in early August'
文法句型
ear (no object)
begin to ear
用法筆記
This is a specialised agricultural term. It is almost never used outside farming or gardening contexts. The past tense is 'eared'. Learners at intermediate levels rarely need to produce this word but may encounter it in reading about farming.