wean是什么意思_wean怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

gradually deprive (infants and young mammals) of mother"s milk;"she weaned her baby when he was 3 months old and started him on powdered milk"
"The kitten was weaned and fed by its owner with a bottle"

detach the affections of

中英词源

wean 断奶

来自PIE*wen,追寻，渴求，努力，词源同win,wonted.后用于指小孩摆脱母乳，开始习惯正常的饮食，从而引申词义断奶。

wean: wean: [OE] The etymological notion underlying wean is of ‘becoming accustomed’. The specialization to ‘making accustomed to food other than mother’s milk’ is a secondary development. The word comes from a prehistoric Germanic *wanjan (source also of German gewöhnen ‘accustom’). This was derived from the adjective *wanaz ‘accustomed’, which in turn was formed from the base *wan-, *wen-, *wun-(source also of English winsome, wish, and wont ‘accustomed’ [OE]).
=> winsome, wish, wont
wean (v.): "train (an infant or animal) to forego suckling," c. 1200, from Old English wenian "to accustom, habituate," from Proto-Germanic *wanjan (cognates: Old Norse venja, Dutch wennen, Old High German giwennan, German gewöhnen "to accustom"), from PIE *won-eyo-, from root *wen- (1) "to desire, strive for." The sense of "accustom a child to not suckling from the breast" in Old English generally was expressed by gewenian or awenian, which has a sense of "unaccustom" (compare German abgewöhnen, entwöhnen "to wean," literally "to unaccustom"). The modern word might be one of these with the prefix worn off, or it might be wenian in a specialized sense of "accustom to a new diet." Figurative extension to any pursuit or habit is from 1520s.

词态变化

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

权威造句

1. It can be extremely difficult to wean children off junk food.: 让儿童改掉吃零食的习惯有时十分困难.

2. The hospital managed to wean her off the drug.: 医院已让她逐步减少依赖这种药.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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。

近反义词

wean from 使放弃

相似短语

wean from 使放弃

wean off 摆脱

counterweight weight 平衡锤

western ragweed phr. 多年生豚草

powerplant weight 发动机装置重量

weaning weight 断奶重，断乳体重

weaving welding 摆动焊

welt wetting 沿条浸湿

wet weight 湿重

wetting power 润湿力

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