Overhear

(v. t.) To hear more of (anything) than was intended to be heard; to hear by accident or artifice.

(v. t.) To hear again.

校对:尼古拉斯

• I suppose nobody can overhear us? 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Have we a right to repeat or to overhear her prayers? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Daniel Doyce said perhaps he hadn't touched it, but Mr Meagles rather declined to overhear the remark. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• The group stopped beneath my hiding place and I could plainly overhear their every word. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• Seats tolerably in the shade were found; and now Emma was obliged to overhear what Mrs. Elton and Jane Fairfax were talking of. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• You did not overhear what they said? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Cassy placed her ear at the knot-hole; and, as the morning air blew directly towards the house, she could overhear a good deal of the conversation. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• It was very well they did--to judge from the fragments of conversation which Margaret overheard. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• It was the man; the man he had followed in company with the girl, and whom he had overheard talking to Miss Wade. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• I wish you could have overheard her tribute of praise; I wish you could have seen her countenance, when she said that you _should_ be Henry's wife. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• Don't undervalue your fighting powers, Maurice, said the Demarch, who overheard this remark; your tussle with Alcibiades was no light one. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Mr. Weller was overheard by his son to murmur something relative to making a vessel's nose bleed; but Mr. Stiggins heard him not. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• I thought I overheard Miss Havisham answer,--only it seemed so unlikely,--Well? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• But I have stolen away from those who would surely murder me, if they knew I had been here, to tell you what I have overheard. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• You will excuse me, said Holmes blandly, but I could not help overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Legree could not help overhearing this whispering; and it was all the more exciting to him, from the pains that were taken to conceal it from him. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• One may imagine her suffering on overhearing fragments of this sort of conversation. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Whether he were overhearing too, she could not determine. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• That five minutes of overhearing furnished Eustacia with visions enough to fill the whole blank afternoon. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• I discovered this, from overhearing the lady in the bow-window say to the guard, 'Take care of that child, George, or he'll burst! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.

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