| 英语单词 | glean |
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| 英美音标 | 英 [ɡliːn] 美 [ɡliːn] |
| 中文释义 | v.拾落穗;收集 |
| 英语例句 | (1) What useful thing can you glean from that? (2) He likes to glean the bamboo telegraph. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 哪些有益的事情你能收集到的? (2) 他喜欢收集小道消息。 |
| vocabulary简明 | Seeing a word in context lets you glean information about how it's used. Glean means to gather bit by bit. You might say, "I couldn't understand her accent, but from what I could glean, she needs money to take the bus." |
| vocabulary扩展 | In the Book of Ruth in The Bible, Ruth meets her future husband when she asked permission to glean from his fields, which means follow the grain cutters, gathering the seed kernels that have fallen on the ground. For the very poor at this time, gleaning was often means of getting food. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [VERB 动词]耐心学习,仔细收集(信息、知识等) If you glean something such as information or knowledge, you learn or collect it slowly and patiently, and perhaps indirectly. [V n [V n]
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