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deaf

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deaf /def/ W3 adjectiveadj

1 HEAR#physically unable to hear anything or unable to hear well 耳聋的，失聪的 → hearing impaired

communication between deaf and hearing people

失聪者和听力正常者之间的交流

I think Mum’s going a bit deaf.

我觉得妈妈有点耳聋了。

She’s deaf and dumb (=unable to hear or speak) and communicates using sign language.

她又聋又哑，用手语交流。

Tom was born profoundly deaf (=having great difficulty hearing).

汤姆天生几乎全聋。

stone deaf/deaf as a post informal (=completely deaf) 完全耳聋的

→ hard of hearing , tone-deaf

2 the deaf [plural]HEAR# people who are deaf 耳聋的人

a school for the deaf

聋人学校

Examples from the Corpus

the deaf• a school for the deaf

3 be deaf to something literaryLISTEN# to be unwilling to hear or listen to something 不愿听某事，不肯听取某事

She was deaf to his pleas.

她对他的恳求充耳不闻。

Examples from the Corpus

be deaf to something• There may be a prophet hidden inside each of us, but we tend to be deaf to such warnings.• And with a faintly questioning intonation that fitzAlan would have to be deaf to miss.• The Daemonette is deaf to reason, and longs only to kill.• But what if she were deaf to reason?• Was it that alienated man was deaf to the language of the hills and valleys, the forests and the shore?• But they are deaf to the rest.

4 turn a deaf ear (to something) IGNOREto be unwilling to listen to what someone is saying or asking （对某事）充耳不闻[置若罔闻]

The factory owners turned a deaf ear to the demands of the workers.

工厂主对工人们提出的要求置若罔闻。

Examples from the Corpus

turn a deaf ear (to something)• They may display their feelings by refusing to eat, and turning a deaf ear to anyone who calls their name.• She wouldn't be keeping the Law if she turned a deaf ear to the call or ran away from it.• The race committee turned a deaf ear to the objections of Amelia and the other fliers.• Thus, year after year, working people turn a deaf ear to union entreaties.

5. fall on deaf ears IGNOREif advice or a warning falls on deaf ears, everyone ignores it 〔建议、警告〕遭人忽视，不被理睬

Examples from the Corpus

fall on deaf ears• As rioting continued, Mayor Warren appealed for calm, but his words fell on deaf ears.• Those words fell on deaf ears.• His pleas for mercy fell on deaf ears.• The workers' demand for a wage increase has fallen on deaf ears.• Their requests fell on deaf ears.• But my suggestions fell on deaf ears.• Invitations by Paredes to the various governors to second his plan fell on deaf ears.• Pleas that the couple and their two young children will be homeless and facing financial ruin have fallen on deaf ears.• Until Friday, such complaints appeared to fall on deaf ears at the Treasury.• They formulated a programme of demands, but these fell on deaf ears in Petrograd.• Arguments that some of the skills practised by pupils are obsolete fall on deaf ears, or are heeded only very slowly.

—deafness noun [uncountableU]

n COLLOCATIONS

verbs

go deaf (=become deaf)

By the time he was 50 he had begun to go deaf.

be born deaf

If the mother gets the disease, her baby may be born deaf.

leave somebody deaf (=cause someone to become deaf)

A blow on the head left him permanently deaf.

adverbs

totally deaf (=completely deaf)

He was totally deaf, and unable to walk.

partially deaf (=partly deaf)

Most children who are partially deaf can be taught in normal schools.

stone deaf informal (=completely deaf)

She must be stone deaf if she didn’t hear all that noise!

profoundly deaf technical (=completely deaf)

Many profoundly deaf children have great difficulty in learning to read.

phrases

as deaf as a post informal (=completely deaf)

He won’t hear you - he’s as deaf as a post.

deaf in one ear

The illness left her deaf in one ear.

n THESAURUS

deaf adjectiveadj physically unable to hear anything, or unable to hear well

Deaf people use sign language to communicate.

be hard of hearing to have difficulty hearing things, for example because you are old

You’ll have to speak up – she’s a bit hard of hearing.

subtitles for the hard of hearing

hearing-impaired formal adjectiveadj having a permanent physical condition which makes it difficult for you to hear things

Not all hearing-impaired people are completely deaf.

Examples from the Corpus

deaf• Found as a baby in Darjeeling, she, too, is deaf.• One such group is the deaf.• Her second child, Oscar, was born deaf.• More programmes these days have subtitles for the deaf.• You'll need to speak quite loudly because my father's going deaf.• Dad's partially deaf and needs a hearing aid.• Does it adequately outline assessment procedures which will identify the needs of the deaf child?• All normal deaf children can develop in the oral system.• Washington, that bastion of deaf ears and self-indulgent thinking, is actually trying to relate to the country it represents.• But the union message today is increasingly falling upon deaf ears.• There is no reason why deaf people wouldn't lead perfectly normal lives.• Higher education for the deaf receives the same lukewarm support.• Mr Farrer, a white-haired man in his fifties, had been stone deaf since he was a child.• That was another of Eunice Snell's theories, that he was a bit weak in the head and probably stone deaf too.

deaf and dumb• Her illness, when she had been struck deaf and dumb - had she been in the field then?• The deaf and dumb one, who seemed about to speak or make a noise as he came.• Maginn also took part in the debate concerning the intermarriage of deaf and dumb people.• Sleight was a genuine friend of deaf and dumb people.• The second related to the difficulties experienced by deaf and dumb school-leavers in finding suitable employment and particularly in entering skilled trades.• Kim stood like a deaf and dumb sentry, never once asking her to stay.• Alice herself was deaf and dumb until - she claims - she saw a vision of the Immaculate Conception.

Origin deaf

Old English

deaf adjectiveadj →n COLLOCATIONS1 →n THESAURUS1

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