deaf

She is now profoundly deaf.

她现在几乎一点声音都听不到了。

In the deaf culture of North America, many listeners show applause not by clapping their hands but by waving them in the air.

在北美的聋人文化中，许多听众不是通过拍手，而是在空中挥舞双手来表示鼓掌。

Indeed in the late eighteen hundreds one out of every twenty-five people in one village on the island was born deaf, and the island as a whole had a deafness rate at least seventeen times greater than that of the rest of the United States.

事实上，在1800年后期，岛上的一个村子里，每25个人中就有一个生来就是聋的，而整个岛上的聋率至少是美国其他地方的17倍。

I hope that our appeals will not fall on deaf ears.

我希望我们的请求不会被当作耳边风。