2.a good/sympathetic listenerSYMPATHIZEsomeone who listens carefully and sympathetically to other people 认真倾听的人/有同情心的听者
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a good/sympathetic listener• Seek not only to be understood but to understand-be a good listener.• Be a good listener and do not demand that children reveal all that they do or think.• And apart from the information you get, being a good listener helps the other side to relax and have confidence in you.• People liked her because she was steady, sensible, a good listener.• Zach said he was a good listener and that he was a sensitive being.• LadyThatcher never drewbreath, while JohnMajor was a good listener.• In the Collins family, Kevin was not actually told stories about how he, too, was a good listener.• It will give you the opportunity to discuss your problems with a sympathetic listener.
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listener• The station was flooded with calls from listeners after the show.• Marcovicci charmed her listeners, all of them old friends, it seemed.• He paused momentarily to check that his listeners had fully appreciated the humour of his remark.• KCEA, a big-band radio station, relies on money from its listeners to keep running.• The programme already has more than two million listeners across the country.• In the spoken modelistenersreceive whole utterances.• But Wolfe admits that less than 1 percent of listeners take time to phone the station with opinions.• The broadcastappealed to all sorts of listeners.• Everyone remembers that much today, while few remember the substance of a debate that radio listeners thought Nixon had won.• In Tony Crosland he found a readylistener, and the Woolwich speechmarked a sharp redirection of policy in higher education.• Some of our regularlisteners have complained about the new programschedule.• Some listeners were fooled by the imitation.• But it never quite works properly, because when the listener instinctively moves his head, the sound rotates as well.
From Longman Business Dictionary
listenerlis·ten·er /ˈlɪsənə-ər/ noun [countableC]
someone who listens to a particular radio station or programme
To recruit country music radio listeners, the station has embarked on some innovative marketing methods.