英语词汇“to tickle a person's ear”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

n. to tickle a person's ear(s): to gratify a person with agreeable sounds; (hence) to flatter or coax a person. Similarly to stroke a person's ear(s) (now rare).

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a1551 J. Redman Complaint of Grace (?1556) sig. H.i Thy preachers glorie in theyr tongues, and in that thei please their audience..tickling their eares with that whiche deliteth their affections with out refourminge of their condicions.

a1637 B. Jonson Timber 700 in Wks. (1640) III They would not have it run without rubs, as if that stile were more strong and manly, that stroke the eare with a kind of unevenesse.

1662 J. Denham Rump i. 11 Did I for these take pains..to stroke the Peoples ears?

1721 tr. P. Burman Oration against Stud. Humanities 45 Who can without Astonishment hear him..; one while, sweetly languishing out a doleful Period; then again tickling the Ears of his Audience, with a pleasant merry Strain.

1783 London Mag. May 221/1 They are a species of eunuchs, who, by the melodiousness of their voice, can tickle the ear.

1825 W. Scott Talisman xiii, in Tales Crusaders IV. 267 I..have more list to my bed than to have my ears tickled.

1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola II. ix. 96 An orator who tickled the ears of the people blatant for some unknown good.

1929 Rotarian Sept. 35/3 The professor could tickle our ears with choice adjectives and stir our imaginations with brilliant word pictures.

1997 New Yorker 29 Sept. 88/1 ‘Britpop’ bands have reënacted the British Invasion of the sixties, stroking conservative ears with echoes of the Beatles and the Kinks.

2001 S. Birdsell Russländer i. 35 This is bound to tickle your ear as it did mine. I was in the volost office when I overheard our favourite preacher say that he felt sorry for Tolstoy's family.

单词	to tickle a person's ear
释义	> as lemmas to tickle a person's ear(s) n. to tickle a person's ear(s): to gratify a person with agreeable sounds; (hence) to flatter or coax a person. Similarly to stroke a person's ear(s) (now rare). ΚΠ a1551 J. Redman Complaint of Grace (?1556) sig. H.i Thy preachers glorie in theyr tongues, and in that thei please their audience..tickling their eares with that whiche deliteth their affections with out refourminge of their condicions. a1637 B. Jonson Timber 700 in Wks. (1640) III They would not have it run without rubs, as if that stile were more strong and manly, that stroke the eare with a kind of unevenesse. 1662 J. Denham Rump i. 11 Did I for these take pains..to stroke the Peoples ears? 1721 tr. P. Burman Oration against Stud. Humanities 45 Who can without Astonishment hear him..; one while, sweetly languishing out a doleful Period; then again tickling the Ears of his Audience, with a pleasant merry Strain. 1783 London Mag. May 221/1 They are a species of eunuchs, who, by the melodiousness of their voice, can tickle the ear. 1825 W. Scott Talisman xiii, in Tales Crusaders IV. 267 I..have more list to my bed than to have my ears tickled. 1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola II. ix. 96 An orator who tickled the ears of the people blatant for some unknown good. 1929 Rotarian Sept. 35/3 The professor could tickle our ears with choice adjectives and stir our imaginations with brilliant word pictures. 1997 New Yorker 29 Sept. 88/1 ‘Britpop’ bands have reënacted the British Invasion of the sixties, stroking conservative ears with echoes of the Beatles and the Kinks. 2001 S. Birdsell Russländer i. 35 This is bound to tickle your ear as it did mine. I was in the volost office when I overheard our favourite preacher say that he felt sorry for Tolstoy's family. extracted from earn.¹ < as lemmas
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