overhearing

英 [ˌəʊvəˈhɪərɪŋ]

美 [ˌoʊvərˈhɪrɪŋ]

v.  偶然听到; 无意中听到
overhear的现在分词

电力

柯林斯词典

• VERB 偶然听到；无意中听到；偷听到
  If youoverhearsomeone, you hear what they are saying when they are not talking to you and they do not know that you are listening.
  1. I overheard two doctors discussing my case.
     我无意中听到两位医生讨论我的病情。
  2. ...snatches of overheard conversation.
     偷听到的片言只语

双语例句

• A: The person on the other end may not be comfortable with other people overhearing what he is saying, especially if he isn't aware that he is on speaker.
  C：噢，你是说对方可能不想让别人听见他跟我说些什么。
• After overhearing another shopper say she may not be able to afford her outstanding bill, Mr Parady wandered over to the layaway department to see what he could do to help.
  在偶然听到一个购物者说她可能没办法支付掉未付账单时，帕拉第先生走进分期付款商品保留部，他想知道自己是否能帮上一点忙。
• At eleven he had denounced his uncle to the Thought Police after overhearing a conversation which appeared to him to have criminal tendencies.
  十一岁的时候，他偷听到叔叔的话显然有犯罪倾向，便向思想警察进行了揭发。
• For about six months, the company intermingled its accountants and media buyers, hoping they would begin to absorb each others 'skills through' osmosis 'and' overhearing phone calls. '
  该公司让会计和媒介采购员混坐了约六个月，希望他们能通过耳濡目染和偷听电话来相互借鉴。
• Overhearing this, a woman remarked," You mean to say it took you all this time to lose one pound?"
  一个女子听到了这些话，她说道：“你是说你花了这么长时间才减了1磅？”
• Accidentally overhearing someone say sth nice about you.
  无意中听有人在说你好话。
• In soaps, people are always stumbling upon one another, accidentally overhearing or deliberately eavesdropping on private conversations.
  电视剧里经常会有一些重要的私人谈话经常会被一些人有意无意的听到情况。
• Have you ever wondered why overhearing a cellphone conversation is so annoying?
  无意间听到别人通过手机聊天，自己却开始心烦意乱，你有没有思考过这是为什么呢？
• From the men's expressions, we can tell that what they are overhearing is reaching its most interesting point.
  从这两位男士的面部表情中，我们可以看出，他们偷听到的故事就要达到情节的高潮。
• He could not help overhearing the conversation, so strident was her tone.
  他没法不去听那场谈话，因为她说话的声调太刺耳了。