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

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