wean
音标发音
- 英式音标 [wiːn]
- 美式音标 [wiːn]
- 国际音标 [wi:n]
- 英式发音
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基本解释
- vt. 使断奶；使断念；使放弃
- n. （苏格兰）幼儿
- n. (Wean)人名；(英)威恩
词根记忆
- 那孩子会自己穿衣(wear)，早该断奶(wean)了→使断奶
英汉例句
- The hospital managed to wean her off the drug.
医院已让她逐步减少依赖这种药. - The patch enables smokers to wean themselves off cigarettes very gradually.
这张贴片能使吸烟者很缓慢地把烟戒掉. - He was sent away to school to wean him from bad companions.
送他上学,以便与坏的伙伴断绝来往. - 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。 - 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。
英英字典
- to cause a baby or young animal to stop feeding on its mother's milk and to start eating other food, especially solid food, instead
- When a baby or baby animal is weaned, its mother stops feeding it milk and starts giving it other food, especially solid food.
- If you wean someone off a habit or something they like, you gradually make them stop doing it or liking it, especially when you think it is bad for them.