It seemed that our nursery rhymes must have had some magic because all the nights I sang them for my daughter, she would listen to them with keen pleasure.

我们的童谣似乎有某种魔力，因为我每天晚上都为女儿唱童谣，她听了都会非常高兴。

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If only she would listen to reason!

她要是能听得进道理就好了。

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Sometimes she would listen to him playing the saxophone.

有时她会听他吹奏萨克斯管。

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As a child,she would listen closely to the stories told by the adults in the town.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

As a child Lucille would sit on her mother's lap and listen as she read poetry.

VOA: special.2010.04.18

But she would not listen. She died the next year.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

In England two years after her 1764 marriage, and with an infant son, Prince Charles of Brunswick, in tow, she told anyone who would listen that she hoped he would in due course marry his new cousin, the Princess Royal.

NPR: Excerpt: Princesses

Ms Horsnell said she hoped the authorities would listen to the family's final pleas, but admitted she was not optimistic "because they haven't looked at the evidence previously".

BBC: Akmal Shaikh's family visit ahead of planned execution

But if she had bothered to listen to what the members of the ECI said she would see that their commitment to Jews stems from their enraged liberal souls too.

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