English Dictionary

harken

/ˈhɑːk(ə)n/

verb

(transitive, intransitive, chiefly US) Alternative spelling of hearken: to hear, to listen, to have regard.

Harken to my words and heed my advice.

意味（1）

(transitive, intransitive, chiefly US) Alternative spelling of hearken: to hear, to listen, to have regard.

Ev'n from the depths of Hell the Damn'd advance, / Th' Infernal Manſions nodding ſeem to dance; / The gaping three-mouth'd Dog forgets to ſnarl, / The Furies harken, and their Snakes uncurl.

意味（2）

(intransitive, US, figuratively) To hark back, to return or revert (to a subject, etc.), to allude to, to evoke, to long or pine for (a past event or era).

Bell argued that the manual approach was backwards, and harkened to a primitive age where humans used gesture and pantomime.