英语词汇“wean”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

wean1

/wiːn

verb [with object]

1Accustom (an infant or other young mammal) to food other than its mother’s milk.A breast-feeding mother will wean her infant before returning to work....

There were seventeen children in all, one a very young infant not even weaned from his mother's milk, yet.
Sperm whale mothers wean their calves on pieces of squid.

1.1 (often wean someone off) Accustom (someone) to managing without something which they have become dependent on: the doctor tried to wean her off the sleeping pills...

Like all sorts of dependency we need to wean people off their cars, but at the same time we cannot leave people high and dry.
The patient dies 71 days later as doctors try to wean him from a ventilator.
She said she felt she had no support when trying to wean people off the drug, which is used for the short-term relief of anxiety.

1.2 (be weaned on) Be strongly influenced by (something), especially from an early age: I was weaned on a regular diet of Hollywood fantasy...

The easy availability of alcohol means that kids and teenagers are at risk of being weaned on to alcohol at an early stage.
McLaughlin says that he can't explain why, but he often feels a need to revisit his past, and classic American songbook material was what he was weaned on as a young jazz player in the '60s.
Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, Carl Stalling wrote the music for the classic Warner Brothers cartoons that John Zorn was weaned on.

Origin

Old English wenian, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch wennen and German entwöhnen.

Rhymes

wean2

/wiːn

noun Scottish & Northern English

A young child.‘My daughter goes to a fairly hard-core working-class school and every morning, I see guys kissing their weans, telling them how much they love them, and sending them on their way,’ says Mullan....

‘It was a different matter when Jack Steedman had loads of weans going unpaid from door to door in Clydebank selling bingo tickets to raise funds,’ says Robertson.
‘It's magic,’ is all the explanation weans require.

Origin

Late 17th century: contraction of wee ane 'little one'.

单词	wean
释义	wean1 /wiːn / verb [with object] 1Accustom (an infant or other young mammal) to food other than its mother’s milk.A breast-feeding mother will wean her infant before returning to work.... There were seventeen children in all, one a very young infant not even weaned from his mother's milk, yet. Sperm whale mothers wean their calves on pieces of squid. 1.1 (often wean someone off) Accustom (someone) to managing without something which they have become dependent on: the doctor tried to wean her off the sleeping pills... Like all sorts of dependency we need to wean people off their cars, but at the same time we cannot leave people high and dry. The patient dies 71 days later as doctors try to wean him from a ventilator. She said she felt she had no support when trying to wean people off the drug, which is used for the short-term relief of anxiety. 1.2 (be weaned on) Be strongly influenced by (something), especially from an early age: I was weaned on a regular diet of Hollywood fantasy... The easy availability of alcohol means that kids and teenagers are at risk of being weaned on to alcohol at an early stage. McLaughlin says that he can't explain why, but he often feels a need to revisit his past, and classic American songbook material was what he was weaned on as a young jazz player in the '60s. Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, Carl Stalling wrote the music for the classic Warner Brothers cartoons that John Zorn was weaned on. Origin Old English wenian, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch wennen and German entwöhnen. Rhymes Aberdeen, Amin, aquamarine, baleen, bean, been, beguine, Benin, between, canteen, careen, Claudine, clean, contravene, convene, cuisine, dean, Dene, e'en, eighteen, fascine, fedayeen, fifteen, figurine, foreseen, fourteen, Francine, gean, gene, glean, gombeen, green, Greene, Halloween, intervene, Janine, Jean, Jeannine, Jolene, Kean, keen, Keene, Ladin, langoustine, latrine, lean, limousine, machine, Maclean, magazine, Malines, margarine, marine, Mascarene, Massine, Maxine, mean, Medellín, mesne, mien, Moline, moreen, mujahedin, Nadine, nankeen, Nazarene, Nene, nineteen, nougatine, obscene, palanquin, peen, poteen, preen, quean, Rabin, Racine, ramin, ravine, routine, Sabine, saltine, sardine, sarin, sateen, scene, screen, seen, serene, seventeen, shagreen, shebeen, sheen, sixteen, spleen, spring-clean, squireen, Steen, submarine, supervene, tambourine, tangerine, teen, terrine, thirteen, transmarine, treen, tureen, Tyrrhene, ultramarine, umpteen, velveteen, ween, Wheen, yean wean2 /wiːn / noun Scottish & Northern English A young child.‘My daughter goes to a fairly hard-core working-class school and every morning, I see guys kissing their weans, telling them how much they love them, and sending them on their way,’ says Mullan.... ‘It was a different matter when Jack Steedman had loads of weans going unpaid from door to door in Clydebank selling bingo tickets to raise funds,’ says Robertson. ‘It's magic,’ is all the explanation weans require. Origin Late 17th century: contraction of wee ane 'little one'.
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