| 英语单词 | wean |
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| 英美音标 | 英 [wiːn] 美 [wiːn] |
| 中文释义 | v.给(婴儿)断奶;戒掉;放弃 |
| 英语例句 | (1) She had her baby weaned a year later. (2) Police weaned him away from drugs. (3) She tried to wean him from playing football. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 她在一年后才把孩子的奶断掉。 (2) 警察让他逐渐戒毒。 (3) 她试图让他不再踢足球。 |
| vocabulary简明 | To wean yourself from something is to gradually eliminate that thing from your life. You may want to wean yourself from watching too much TV, drinking two pots of coffee every morning, or obsessively reading the celebrity columns. |
| vocabulary扩展 | To wean an infant — human or animal — you gradually reduce consumption of mother’s milk or bottled milk until the little one is no longer nursing or bottle-feeding. If you want to wean yourself from eating chocolate chip cookies, go from eating eight a day to only seven for the next few days, then to six for a few days and so on until you're no longer eating any chocolate chip cookies. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [VERB 动词]给(婴儿或幼崽)断奶 When a baby or baby animal is weaned, its mother stops feeding it milk and starts giving it other food, especially solid food. [ [V n] [V n [V-ed]
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2 [VERB 动词]使放弃,使戒掉,使不再依赖(尤指恶习) If you wean someone off a habit or something they like, you gradually make them stop doing it or liking it, especially when you think is bad for them. [V n [V pron-refl
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