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wean

/ˈwiːn/ 动词 C2

中文: 断奶、使戒除

  1. To cease giving breast milk to an offspring; to accustom and reconcile (a child or young animal) to a want or deprivation of mother's milk; to take from the breast or udder. (transitive) · The cow has weaned her calf.
  2. To habituate (someone) to something, especially since childhood. (transitive) · His generation was weaned on 1980's music.
  3. To cease to depend on the mother's milk for nutrition. (intransitive) · The kittens are finally weaning.
  4. To cause to quit something to which one is addicted, dependent, or habituated. (transitive) · He managed to wean himself off heroin.
  5. To cease to depend. (intransitive) · She is weaning from her addiction to tobacco.

He/she/it weans · 过去式 weaned · 过去分词 weaned · -ing形式 weaning

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wean
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weaned
过去分词
weaned
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For years I had gradually weaned him from that drug mania which had threatened once to check his remarkable career.
《The Return of Sherlock Holmes》,第99页 · C1

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