wean

英 [wiːn]

美 [wiːn]

v.  使(婴儿或动物幼崽)断奶

现在分词：weaning　过去分词：weaned　第三人称单数：weans　过去式：weaned　

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Collins.1 / BNC.12010 / COCA.13577

短语用例

wean sb off/from sth

• 使逐渐戒除恶习（或避免依赖…）
  to make sb gradually stop doing or using sth

wean sb on sth

• 使…经常经历（尤指从早年）
  to make sb experience sth regularly, especially from an early age

牛津词典

verb

• 使（婴儿或动物幼崽）断奶
  to gradually stop feeding a baby or young animal with its mother's milk and start feeding it with solid food

柯林斯词典

• VERB 给(婴儿或幼崽)断奶
  When a baby or baby animalis weaned, its mother stops feeding it milk and starts giving it other food, especially solid food.
  1. The baby would be weaned and she would bring it home...
     婴儿断奶后，她会把婴儿带回家。
  2. When would be the best time to start weaning my baby?...
     什么时候开始给我的孩子断奶最好？
  3. Phil took the labrador home and is weaning him off milk on to meat...
     菲尔把拉布拉多犬带回了家，正给它断奶，改喂肉食。
  4. Once weaned, the piglets may be put in pens.
     一旦断了奶，小猪就可以放进猪圈了。
• VERB 使放弃，使戒掉，使不再依赖(尤指恶习)
  If youweansomeoneoffa habit or something they like, you gradually make them stop doing it or liking it, especially when you think is bad for them.
  1. He was mellowed by a wife who weaned him off violence and drink...
     他妻子帮他戒除了动粗和嗜酒的恶习，使他变得成熟了。
  2. You are given pills with small quantities of nicotine to wean you from cigarettes...
     会给你一些含少量尼古丁的药片帮你戒除烟瘾。
  3. Children should be weaned off television...
     孩子应该少看电视。
  4. It's two years since I've seen Iain. I'm still trying to wean myself off him but it's hard.
     我已有两年没见过伊恩了。我试图让自己不再去想他，可很难做到。

英英释义

verb

• gradually deprive (infants and young mammals) of mother's milk
  1. she weaned her baby when he was 3 months old and started him on powdered milk
  2. The kitten was weaned and fed by its owner with a bottle
  Synonym:ablactate
• detach the affections of

双语例句

• You know him personally, you wean?
  你的意思是你本人就认识他？
• Were we not wean'd till then?
  莫非我们还没断奶？
• But China needs to wean itself off its dependence on fixed-asset investment.
  但是，中国有必要摆脱自身对固定资产投资的依赖。
• He must wean himself from suckling the energy of others and become a vibrant transmitter of energy himself.
  他必须戒掉自己吮吸他人能量的恶习，而成为一个充满活力的能源体并不断向外放射这种正能量。
• It's difficult to wean an addict off cocaine once they're hooked.
  一旦一个人对***上了瘾，就很难戒掉。
• You are given pills with small quantities of nicotine to wean you from cigarettes
  会给你一些含少量尼古丁的药片帮你戒除烟瘾。
• When would be the best time to start weaning my baby?
  什么时候开始给我的孩子断奶最好？
• Americans must, she said, "wean* Ourselves from the gas tax".
  她表示，美国人必须“断了燃油税的念头”。
• The couple are doing all they could to wean their only son away from drugs.
  这对夫妇竭尽全力要使他们的独生子戒掉吸毒的恶习。
• What am I supposed to tell the wean in the morning?
  我早上怎么和那些孩子说？