English Dictionary

tin ear

名詞

慣用表現

(idiomatic) Insensitivity to and inability to appreciate the elements of performed music or the rhythm, elegance, or nuances of language.

日本語の意味

音楽の要素や演奏におけるリズム、エレガンス、微妙なニュアンスに対して敏感さを欠いている状態 / 言語のリズムや表現の細かな違い、奥行きに対して感受性が乏しい状態

Even with flawless diction, his tin ear prevented him from conveying the poem's rhythm and emotional nuances.

発音は完璧でも、音楽的な感受性の欠如のために、彼は詩のリズムや感情の細やかなニュアンスを伝えられなかった。

意味（1）

(idiomatic) Insensitivity to and inability to appreciate the elements of performed music or the rhythm, elegance, or nuances of language.

Despite their careless scholarship and a less tangible quality that some would call a tin ear for poetry, Morris Halle and S. J. Keyser, as metrists, have the considerable virtue of explicitness.

意味（2）

(idiomatic) Insensitivity to the nuances of the current situation or the subtleties of a craft; indifference to somebody else's attitudes, moods, and dialogue.

Japan has often displayed a tin ear to South Korean sensitivities over the island, which it calls Takeshima, having acquired it in the process of annexing Korea.

tin ears （ plural ）