People like me are constantly on the listen with half an ear for something.

像我这样的人，老是分出一半注意力耳听八方。

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Mrs. Collins helped me understand that I had an ear for language, so in secondary school I studied French and minored in it in university.

柯林斯小姐帮助我了解了我在语言方面很有天赋，于是在中学我学习了法语并且在大学辅修法语。

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Cooper would joke to friends and colleagues that the calls from that phone would have to be short in duration: Who had the strength to hold it to an ear for very long?

库伯经常跟朋友或同事开玩笑说打电话的时间要缩短，谁有力气把手机放耳朵旁很久？

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(Music) Rod Stewart always had an ear for great soul music.

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An ear and an appetite for these sounds of sense is the first qualification of a writer, be it of prose or verse.

这些感性的声音的耳朵和胃口,是作家最基本的素质，不论是写散文还是诗歌。

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The best sales assistants have an engaging manner and an ear for personal detail.

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"In the first instance though it's just being an ear for someone, " he said.

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Mr Sullivan has an ear for lyrical phrases and for catching the idiom of everyday speech.

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