Wean
[wiːn] or [win]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) gradually deprive (infants and young mammals) of mother's milk; 'she weaned her baby when he was 3 months old and started him on powdered milk'; 'The kitten was weaned and fed by its owner with a bottle'.
(verb.) detach the affections of.
巴尔德手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) To accustom and reconcile, as a child or other young animal, to a want or deprivation of mother's milk; to take from the breast or udder; to cause to cease to depend on the mother nourishment.
(a.) Hence, to detach or alienate the affections of, from any object of desire; to reconcile to the want or loss of anything.
(n.) A weanling; a young child.
手打:帕特丽夏
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. [1]. Put from the breast.[2]. Withdraw, disengage, alienate, detach.
手打:梅尔瓦
解釋/意思:
v.t. to accustom to nourishment other than the mother's milk: to reconcile to the want of anything: to estrange the affections from any object or habit.—n. (wān) an infant a child (Scot.).—ns. Wean′el (Spens.) a weanling; Wean′ing-brash a severe form of diarrhœa which supervenes at times on weaning.—adj. Wean′ling newly weaned.—n. a child or animal newly weaned.
編輯:利瓦伊
例句/造句/用法:
- Often she tried, as gently as might be, to wean him from this fanatic worship of the Muses. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- I tried to wean her fra 't ower and ower agen. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Take the colours and odour from the rose, change the sweet nutriment of mother's milk to gall and poison; as easily might you wean Perdita from love. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- I am _not_ weaned from you, and no human being and no mortal influence _can_ wean me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- O, remain with us--the counsel of holy men will wean you from your erring law, and I will be a sister to you. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Oh, when shall we wean ourselves from the worship of Mammon! 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- For years I had gradually weaned him from that drug mania which had threatened once to check his remarkable career. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- We have seen in an earlier chapter that geometry developed as a sci ence is becoming gradually weaned from the art of surveying. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- He interested Fulton in his schemes and gradually weaned his thoughts away from art to civil engineering. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- I am _not_ weaned from you, and no human being and no mortal influence _can_ wean me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Gradually it drew away all his potentiality, it bled him into the dark, it weaned him of life and drew him away into the darkness. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
整理:弗娜