listen: [OE] The Indo-European base *kludenoted ‘hearing’ (it is the ultimate source of English loud). From its extended form *kluswere derived in prehistoric Germanic the noun *khlustiz ‘hearing’, which eventually produced the now archaic English verb list ‘listen’, and the verb *khlusnōjan ‘hear’, which became English listen. => loud
listen (v.)
Old English hlysnan "to listen," from Proto-Germanic *khlusinon (cognates: Dutch luisteren, Old High German hlosen "to listen," German lauschen "to listen"), from PIE root *kleu- "hearing, to hear" (cognates: Sanskrit srnoti "hears," srosati "hears, obeys;" Avestan sraothra "ear;" Middle Persian srod "hearing, sound;" Lithuanian klausau "to hear," slove "splendor, honor;" Old Church Slavonic slusati "to hear," slava "fame, glory," slovo "word;" Greek klyo "hear, be called," kleos "report, rumor, fame glory," kleio "make famous;" Latin cluere "to hear oneself called, be spoken of;" Old Irish ro-clui-nethar "hears," clunim "I hear," clu "fame, glory," cluada "ears;" Welsh clywaf "I hear;" Old English hlud "loud," hleoeor "tone, tune;" Old High German hlut "sound;" Gothic hilut "listening, attention"). The -t- probably is by influence of Old English hlystan (see list (v.2)). For vowel evolution, see bury. As a noun from 1788 (on the listen "alert").
例文
1. When I asked him to stop，he would not listen .
私は彼を止めるように言ったが、彼は聞かなかった。
2. Listen here，young lady.Don 't you call me that！
聞いてくれ、お嬢さん。そう呼ばないで！
3. Listen to criticism but don 't be crushed by it.
批判的な意見を聞くが、それに打ちのめされてはいけない。
4.A patient will usually listen to the doctor 'sadvice and act on it.
患者は通常、医師の指示に従って行動します。
5.He got his coffee，came back and settled down to listen .