プログレッシブ和英中辞典(第4版)の解説
きく【聞く・聴く】
❶〔聞こえる〕hear ⇒きこえる(聞こえる);〔耳を傾ける〕listen ((to))
聞こうとすれば聞こえる
If you listen, you can hear it.
今ラジオを聴いているところだ
I'm listening to the radio.
彼の聞いている所ではそんなことを言うな
Don't say things like that in his hearing.
彼は私の言うことなど聞こうとしない
He won't listen to me./He turns a deaf ear to me.
人の言うことをよく聞いていないから分からないんだ
You don't understand because you weren't paying attention to me [what I said].
❷〔話として聞いて知る〕hear ((about, of))
聞くと見るとは大違いだ
There is a great difference between what I hear and what I see.
そのことは[彼のことは]聞いています
I have heard about it [him].
知らせを聞いて驚いた
I was surprised when I heard the news.
君が東京に来ていることは上田から聞いた
「Ueda told me [I heard from Ueda] that you were in Tokyo.
ハイジャックについては現地からまだ何も聞いていない
We have no on-the-spot information yet about the hijack.
❸〔聞いて従う〕obey; listen to
この子は親の言うことをよく聞く
This child obeys his parents./This child minds [does] what his parents tell him.
彼の忠告を聞いてたばこをやめた
Following [Taking] his advice, I gave up smoking.
❹〔願いをかなえる〕
今度はあなたの願いを聞きましょう
I will grant your request this time.
お客様のご用を聞いてさしあげなさい
Wait on the customers.
❺〔問う〕ask
その記事について一つ君に聞きたいことがある
I want to ask you a question about the article.
彼の消息を聞いたがだれも知らなかった
I asked [《文》 inquired] after him [I asked for news about him], but nobody knew anything.
それについてもっと詳しいことを聞きたい
「I would like [Give me] more information about it.
それは彼に聞けば分かる
He will [can] tell you about it.
❻〔味・香を感じ取る〕
香[酒]を聞く
「smell incense [taste sake] to see if one can tell the variety
聞いてあきれる
正直が聞いてあきれるよ
Him honest? What a laugh [joke]!
聞きしに勝る
聞きしに勝る美人だった
She was even more beautiful than I had heard.