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BNC: 12010 COCA: 13577

wean

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Related topics: Birth, Biology
wean /wiːn/ verb [transitiveT]  
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 verbphr v 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
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wean off/from • Amanda, of Stevenage, Herts, is now desperately trying to wean Cherie off.• I remember thinking that, and may have made a significant advance toward weaning myself away from childish ways and thoughts.• Cigarette filters are designed to trap some of the tar and nicotine enabling smokers to wean themselves off cigarettes gradually.• He tried hard to wean them away from crime by persuading them to learn a trade instead.• The truth is, I needed to wean myself off of boy blood.• Comforts and consolations may appear to wean us from the gifts to the Giver.• Kirk Fordice, it is a divinely inspired idea to wean families off welfare.• However, he may gradually wean himself off without any pushing from you.
3 be weaned on something phrasal verbphr v 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。
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be weaned on • He was weaned on a diet of rigid discipline and duty.• It is no exaggeration to maintain that Nizan was weaned on death.
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wean• 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 wenian
wean verb
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BNC: 12010 COCA: 13577
wean

verb

ADVERB | VERB + WEAN | PREPOSITION ADVERB➤gradually逐漸斷奶；逐漸戒掉VERB + WEAN➤attempt to, try to試圖戒掉；努力戒除PREPOSITION➤(away) from使戒除◇Her parents are trying to wean her away from gambling.她父母試圖讓她戒賭。➤off戒除◇They have gradually weaned him off the drugs.他們慢慢幫他戒了毒。➤on深受⋯影響◇younger men and women, weaned on the Internet and email深受因特網和電子郵件影響的青年男女➤onto使斷奶後轉向⋯◇to wean a baby onto solid food讓孩子斷奶轉而吃固體食物
BNC: 12010 COCA: 13577
BNC: 12010 COCA: 13577

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