Glean
[gliːn] or [ɡlin]
解释:
(v. t.) To gather after a reaper; to collect in scattered or fragmentary parcels, as the grain left by a reaper, or grapes left after the gathering.
(v. t.) To gather from (a field or vineyard) what is left.
(v. t.) To collect with patient and minute labor; to pick out; to obtain.
(v. i.) To gather stalks or ears of grain left by reapers.
(v. i.) To pick up or gather anything by degrees.
(n.) A collection made by gleaning.
(n.) Cleaning; afterbirth.
黛娜编辑
同义词及近义词:
v. a. [1]. Gather (after reapers).[2]. Collect, cull, pick up.
录入:保拉
解释:
v.t. to gather in handfuls after the reapers: to collect (what is thinly scattered).—v.i. to gather the corn left by a reaper.—n. that which is gleaned: the act of gleaning.—ns. Glean′er; Glean′ing.
录入:诺顿
例句:
- He could glean nothing from their faces; they might as well have been of stone. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- It was an occupation in which he would be apt to glean much gossip and many stray scraps of information, but little that would tend to broaden his mind. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- The speckled fowls were so numerous that Mr. Brooke observed, Your farmers leave some barley for the women to glean, I see. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- Its evolution from the ancient harp, gleaned by man from the wind, that grand old harper, who smote his thunder harp of pines, is too long a story to here recite in detail. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- A visit to the boy suggested itself as a means of gleaning new particulars; though it might be quite unproductive. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
录入:莫拉