"Hearing" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 tīng lì hearing / listening ability
 tīng zhèng huì (legislative) hearing
 líng xùn hearing (law)
 tīng shěn huì hearing (law)
  hearing
 tīng bu dǒng unable to make sense of what one is hearing
 tīng jué sense of hearing / auditory
 jiǎo zhèng to correct / to rectify (e.g. a physical defect such as hearing or vision) / to cure / rectification / correction / to straighten
 tíng shěn court hearing
 yù shěn preliminary hearing / interrogation (of a suspect) / preliminary examination (of a project etc)
 zhù tīng qì hearing aid
 pèi dài to put on / to wear (mouthguard, contact lenses, hearing aid etc)
 huì shěn joint hearing / to review jointly (i.e. with other checkers)
 shī cōng to go deaf / to lose one's hearing / deafness / hearing loss
 guān néng function / capability / sense (i.e. the five senses of sight 視|视, hearing 聽|听, smell 嗅, taste 味 / and touch 觸|触) / faculty (i.e. specific ability)
 wén fēng ér dòng to respond instantly / to act at once on hearing the news
 ěr lì hearing ability
 shùn fēng ěr sb with preternaturally good hearing (in fiction) / fig. a well-informed person
 zhòng tīng hard of hearing
 kuò yīn jī amplifier / loudspeaker / hearing aid
 ěr bèi to be hearing impaired
 bǎi wén bù rú yī jiàn seeing once is better than hearing a hundred times (idiom) / seeing for oneself is better than hearing from many others / seeing is believing
 bèi the back of a body or object / to turn one's back / to hide something from / to learn by heart / to recite from memory / unlucky (slang) / hard of hearing
 cōng quick at hearing / wise / clever / sharp-witted / intelligent / acute
 tīng jiàn fēng jiù shì yǔ lit. on hearing wind, to say rain / to agree uncritically with whatever people say / to parrot other people's words / to chime in with others
 ěr wén bù rú mù jiàn seeing sth for oneself is better than hearing about it from others
 bǎi tīng bù yàn worth hearing a hundred times
 yī bǐ mǒ shā to blot out at one stroke / to reject out of hand / to deny without a hearing
 gōng tīng huì public hearing
 hǎo gù shi bǎi tīng bù yàn The story is so good it's worth hearing a hundred times. / One never tires of hearing good new.
 fù tīng double hearing / diplacusis
 shí yǒu suǒ wén heard from time to time / one keeps hearing that...
 qiū shěn autumn trial (judicial hearing of capital cases during Ming and Qing)
 tīng nì le fed up of hearing
 chāo shēng pín ultrasonic / beyond human hearing
 gōng kāi shěn xùn public hearing
  International Federation of Hard of Hearing People
  annual parliamentary hearing
  hearing impaired
  hearing for the region of the Economic Commission for Europe
 bù gōng kāi shěn lǐ in-camera hearing
  right to a public hearing
  formal hearing
  pre-trial conference / pre-trial hearing
 tīng fēng jiù shì yǔ lit. to believe in the rain on hearing the wind (idiom) / to believe rumors / to be credulous
 fǔ jù assistive device (walking frame, hearing aid etc)
 wén fēng xiān dùn to flee at hearing the news (idiom)
 lóng bāo hearing impaired person (Tw)
 ruò tīng hard of hearing / hearing-impaired
 ěr gēn base of the ear / ear / (Buddhism) sense of hearing
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