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heed

verb

🔊/hiːd/

🔊/hiːd/

(formal)

Verb Forms

present simple I / you / we / they heed	🔊/hiːd/ 🔊/hiːd/
he / she / it heeds	🔊/hiːdz/ 🔊/hiːdz/
past simple heeded	🔊/ˈhiːdɪd/ 🔊/ˈhiːdɪd/
past participle heeded	🔊/ˈhiːdɪd/ 🔊/ˈhiːdɪd/
-ing form heeding	🔊/ˈhiːdɪŋ/ 🔊/ˈhiːdɪŋ/

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heed somebody/something to pay careful attention to somebody’s advice or warning留心，注意，听从（劝告或警告） synonym notice
- They failed to heed the lessons of history.他们未能吸取历史的教训。
- If only they had heeded his warnings!只要他们听了他的警告！
- Calls for more legislation to protect tenants were not heeded.制订更多法规以保障房客利益的呼声没有受到重视。
- He failed to heed our warnings.他没有听我们的警告。
- The government would do well to heed this advice.政府会很好地听取这一建议。
Topics Suggestions and advicec2
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
Heed is used with these nouns as the object:
advice
call
maxim
…
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Word OriginOld English hēdan, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch hoeden and German hüten.

heed

noun

🔊/hiːd/

🔊/hiːd/

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Idioms

give/pay heed (to somebody/something) | take heed (of somebody/something)

(formal) to pay careful attention to somebody/something留心；注意；听从
- They gave little heed to the rumours.他们对流言蜚语不予理睬。
- I paid no heed at the time but later I had cause to remember what he’d said.我当时没在意，但后来的事让我想起了他的话。
- Small businesses would be wise to take heed of the warnings contained in the Chancellor’s speech.明智的做法是，小企业应注意总理讲话中的警告。
- She took little heed of her surroundings.她很少注意周围的环境。
- They paid no heed to the advice.他们不理会建议。