"listen" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

listen verbo

verbo + listen
Kolokacji: 46
sit listening • stop listening • start listening • stand listening • enjoy listening • grow up listening • refuse to listen • try to listen • ...
listen + preposición
Kolokacji: 32
listen to • listen up • listen for • listen without • listen with • ...
listen + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 86
listen carefully • listen intently • listen closely • listen attentively • listen patiently • listen quietly • listen hard • listen well • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 22
(1) carefully, cautiously
Kolokacji: 2
(4) patiently, impatiently
Kolokacji: 2
(6) hard, idly, alertly, live
Kolokacji: 4
(7) well, most, truly
Kolokacji: 3
(8) politely, courteously
Kolokacji: 2
(9) silently, briefly
Kolokacji: 2
(10) eagerly, avidly, halfheartedly
Kolokacji: 3
(11) simply, merely
Kolokacji: 2
(12) hardly, barely, scarcely
Kolokacji: 3
(15) raptly, happily
Kolokacji: 2
(17) impassively, stoically
Kolokacji: 2
1. listen impassively = słuchaj beznamiętnie listen impassively
  • He had said little since Paula's arrival, tending instead to sit back for most of the time, watching and listening impassively.
  • The words tore at Kirk's throat, but the doctor listened impassively.
  • After listening to them impassively he said there was nothing he could do about their problems.
  • Each machine said what it had to say, then listened impassively to the others; and at the end they all agreed.
  • Each listened impassively to the other, then, at intervals of perhaps five hundred words, spoke in his turn.
  • As he had throughout the trial, Judge Story listened to the arguments impassively.
  • Next door, a young man cured of lymphoma two years ago listens impassively to the news that his disease is back.
  • By contributing little, listening impassively without showing response or encouragement to the speaker to continue.
  • Roland, who had been listening impassively all the while, shook his head.
  • The Chairman listened impassively and the others took their cue from him.
2. listen stoically = słuchaj stoicko listen stoically
(18) passively, actively
Kolokacji: 2
(19) spellbound, entranced
Kolokacji: 2
(20) dutifully, obediently
Kolokacji: 2
(21) tensely, nervously
Kolokacji: 2
(22) wide-eyed, incredulously
Kolokacji: 2

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