Try to get the gist of the whole, by listening for the global meaning and ignoring words you haven't fully heard or understood.

一定要先抓住所听的内容的大概意思，即先听懂内容的全貌，忽略个别你没有完全听懂或理解的词。

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That's a whole part of the world that is building alliances, building ties, building economic exchanges, ignoring us.

这一大块区域,正在建立同盟，建立关系，开展经济往来，我们被忽略了。

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Selig behaved as if ignoring the whole issue would make it go away.

FORBES: Magazine Article

But some anti-tax absolutists have decided that closing any tax loophole amounts to a tax hike unless it is deficit neutral -- ignoring the whole reason for engaging in this forced fire drill.

CNN: Our stupid self-inflicted debt crisis

This seems based on a 1940s map giving China virtually the whole sea, ignoring the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).

ECONOMIST: The South China Sea becomes a zone of eternal dispute