耳闻目睹

• 拼音: ěr wén mù dǔ
• 汉字拆解: 耳 = 象形 (ear pictograph); 闻 = 门 (gate) + 耳 (ear) — an ear positioned at a door, listening carefully; 目 = 象形 (eye pictograph); 睹 = 目 (eye) + 者 (person/marker) — the deliberate act of seeing with one's own eyes

含义

To personally witness; to hear and see firsthand. To experience something directly through one's own senses, not through hearsay or secondhand accounts.

耳闻目睹 emphasizes direct, unmediated personal witnessing — the speaker was present and experienced events through both hearing and sight. Frequently used in testimony, journalism, legal statements, and historical accounts to stress the authenticity and credibility of firsthand experience.

例句

1. 她亲身经历了那场灾难，所耳闻目睹的一切彻底改变了她对生命脆弱性的认知。
2. 这位记者深入战区进行实地采访，将其耳闻目睹的真实情况如实地呈现在读者面前。
3. 证人表示，他对事件经过并非道听途说，而是在现场亲眼亲耳耳闻目睹的。

用法指南

语境: journalism, law, history, testimony

语气: emphatic

正确说法

• 作为那段历史的亲历者，他将自己耳闻目睹的一切整理成文字，留给后人，以期避免类似的悲剧在未来重演。(As a first-hand participant in that period of history, he compiled everything he had personally witnessed into writing as a record for future generations, hoping to prevent similar tragedies from recurring.)
• 这位社会学研究员在田野调查期间耳闻目睹了底层社会中大量不为人知的困境，这些真实经历彻底颠覆了她此前基于统计数据所形成的理论预设。(During fieldwork, this sociological researcher personally witnessed a great many unnoticed hardships in grassroots society; these lived experiences completely overturned the theoretical assumptions she had previously formed on the basis of statistical data.)

错误说法

• 我耳闻目睹了新闻里的那件事 — 耳闻目睹 requires direct personal presence at the scene; you cannot witness something through news media; say 我通过新闻了解到那件事 for indirect exposure

起源与历史

耳 (ear) + 闻 (to hear) + 目 (eye) + 睹 (to see with one's own eyes) — to personally hear and personally see; complete firsthand witnessing through both senses

文化背景

世代: All ages

社会背景: Universal