| 单词 | lean |
| 释义 | lean I. intransitive verb 1. a. < leaned forward to get a better look > : be in an inclining position < this fence leans badly > b. < lean on me as we walk > < leaned on his staff > c. < leaned into another inviting pitch — New York Times > 2. now chiefly Scotland 3. < preferring not to lean on his father in building a career — Current Biography > < this room not only leans on the past but improves on it — Edgar Kaufmann > < leans heavily upon certain modern clichés — R.D.Altick > < eastern Brazilians lean more heavily on the sweet potato — R.H.Lowie > 4. < leaned toward a teaching career — Current Biography > < lean to the belief that there was foul play — S.H.Adams > < leans toward the native dishes — A.L.Himbert > transitive verb 1. < leaned her head upon her arm — Pearl Buck > < lean the board against the wall > 2. now chiefly Scotland • - lean over backward II. < the lean of a sail > < the wall has a decided lean > < body lean is apparent only on the sharpest of curves — Walt Woron > III. 1. a. < a lean body > < a lean man > < lean cattle > b. < eats only lean meat > 2. a. < supped on lean fare > b. < ample profits will produce better goods and services than lean profits — Report of American Tel & Tel. Co. > < lean material resources > < lean tax collections — New York Times > c. < a lean life, that of a college professor — A.W.Long > < important as a source of food after a lean winter — F.C.Lincoln > < came upon lean days — Anatole Chujoy > d. < never ceased to love the lean red soil — Josephine Y. Case > < attempts to make lean soils yield — American Guide Series: Michigan > e. < a paper that was slim in size and lean on news — W.A.Swanberg > < this year, so lean in its new plays — John Mason Brown > f. printing (1) (2) < type with a lean face > < a lean stroke in a letter > 3. a. of clay b. of coal c. of lime d. (1) of ore (2) of an alloy e. < if the gasoline-air mixture is too lean (too much air) excess air passes out the exhaust — Irving Frazee > f. 4. < an orchestral suite … is lean, supple and sure — New Yorker > < lean, compact writing that implies as much as it states — Stanley Cooperman > < his diction … is lean, his imagery precise — Herbert Read > < retold in lean and forthright prose — Word Study > Synonyms: < a lean face with prominent cheekbones > < described as lean and wiry … six feet tall and weighs 170 pounds — Current Biography > spare may suggest an easy sinewy frame resulting from lack of excess < his spare, not unsolid, but unobtrusive figure — John Galsworthy > < the spare, alert, and jaunty figure that one often finds in army men — Thomas Wolfe > lank may suggest tallness as well as leanness, sometimes suggesting the wiry strength of an economical build, sometimes connoting the effects of wasting away < the hounds were fine beasts, they seemed lank and swift — Elizabeth M. Roberts > < meager and lank with fasting grown, and nothing left but skin and bone — Jonathan Swift > lanky may suggest a leanness accompanied by loose-jointed articulation or by callow awkwardness < Lincoln, an awkward, lanky giant — Allan Nevins & H.S.Commager > < very tall and lanky, all wrists and ankles — Margaret Deland > gaunt may suggest a bony haggard leanness resulting from continued strain and undernourishment < this one with the passing of the years had grown lean and gaunt and the rocklike bones of her face stood forth and her eyes were sunken — Pearl Buck > < always a very lean boy, but now he is looking positively gaunt — Compton Mackenzie > rawboned describes persons not noticeably fat but stresses large often ungainly build < a long, gawky, rawboned Yorkshireman — Rudyard Kipling > < tall, lean, stooping, rawboned, with coarse features — V.L.Parrington > angular applies to leanness accompanied by a degree of graceless stiffness < angular face and straight hair rather unattractive — Dorothy Sayers > < the thin, angular woman, with her haughty eye and her acrid mouth — Lytton Strachey > skinny may suggest noticeable thinness resulting from inadequate food and suggesting lack of vitality < the skinniest human being I ever saw. He had not enough flesh on his bones to make a decent-sized chicken — Robert Lynd > scrawny is closely synonymous with skinny but may suggest an underlying toughness < scrawny kid, all legs and arms — Agatha Christie > < they were scrawny and underfed and “pinched their guts” with their belts for lack of food — American Guide Series: Tennessee > IV. 1. < leaned down for travel — A.B.Guthrie > < leaned out by his illness — Time > specifically 2. V. VI. • - lean on |
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