That measure freed the slaves in the rebel states of the South, though Lincoln's words fell on deaf ears.

VOA: special.2009.10.15

You don't have to read the notes cause you've got the sound in your ears, part of your aural memory.

你不用去看音符,因为你头脑里已经有了声音,这是你听觉记忆的一部分

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

He may mutilate his ears by piercing them. The middle Assyrian laws also legalized violence against a wife. "When she deserves it" a seignor may pull out the hair of his wife, mutilate or twist her ears.

可以刺伤其耳朵，另外，中亚述法律,也将对妻子的暴力行为合法化了，“如果她是应受的“,自由人可以拔其发，毁其耳。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Now,there came to my ears a low,dull,quick sound, such as a watch makes when inside a piece of cotton.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

And once again we, our ears,hear this aggregate of sound and then we say, "Oh,it's got that,that,that,that," and we extrapolate out of that information that it is this particular chord.

然后再来听到这样的声音的聚合，然后我们可以说，“哦，到了那里，那里，那里，那里”,然后我们能够推断出这就是我们所指的那个和弦。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

The soft music, the low voices of the people around him and the soft popping of champagne corks whispered into Paul's ears.

VOA: special.2009.04.11

So the point of this is: once you get these kind of progressions locked in your ears, you go to a concert and you can begin to chart what the piece is doing in terms of its harmony.

这里的重点是，一旦你的耳朵牢牢记住了这些进程，你去听音乐会的时候就能开始分析一部作品的和声了。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

"Big ears, big old jug ears like that." Pett says,cartoonists are essential to showing the lighter side of life, especially in difficult times.

VOA: standard.2010.03.20