| 单词 | wean |
| 释义 | Related topics: Birth, Biologywean /wiːn/ verb [transitive] 1 MBHBto gradually stop feeding a baby or young animal on its mother’s milk and start giving it ordinary food 使〔婴儿或幼畜〕断奶wean somebody onto something It’s time to start weaning her onto solid foods. 该让她断奶吃固体食物了。2 wean somebody off/from something phrasal verb STOP something THAT IS HAPPENINGto make someone gradually stop doing something you disapprove of 使〔某人〕逐渐戒除 advice on how to wean yourself off nicotine 关于如何戒除尼古丁的建议3 be weaned on something phrasal verb EFFECT/INFLUENCEto be influenced by something from a very early age 自幼受…的影响 I was weaned on a diet of Hollywood fantasy. 我自幼深受好莱坞梦的影响。→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpuswean• Some infants are weaned at six months.• The vote came on an amendment to a sweeping farm bill aimed at weaning farmers from federal subsidies.• The doctor never told me to wean him off the drug-to watch out for depression, anything.• Therefore puppies housed after weaning in insanitary surroundings are at greatest risk from this vice.• I remember thinking that, and may have made a significant advance toward weaning myself away from childish ways and thoughts.• That is, users are given smaller and smaller daily amounts of the drug until they are presumably weaned off opioids altogether.• You may have to use live Guppies and Goldfish before weaning on to dead foods.• When she weans them on to meat she usually feeds them from the kill before she herself eats.Origin wean Old English wenianwean verbChinese Corpus baby feeding animal to a young or stop gradually |
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