两耳不闻窗外事
Traditional form:
兩耳不聞窗外事
Pinyin (reading):
liǎng'ěrbùwénchuāngwàishì
Definitions:
- to pay no attention to outside matters
Characters:
- 两 - two, both, pair, couple; ounce
- 耳 - ear; to hear, to hear of; handle
- 不 - no, not, un-; negative prefix
- 闻 - news; to hear, to smell; to make known
- 窗 - window
- 外 - out, outside, external; foreign; in addition
- 事 - affair, matter, business; to serve; accident, incident
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