wean

vt. 使断奶；使断念；使放弃

n. （苏格兰）幼儿

n. (Wean)人名；(英)威恩

vt.

使断奶；使断念；

n.

〈英〉婴儿；

变形

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

英英释义

wean[ wi:n ]

v.

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"

同义词：ablactate

detach the affections of

双语例句

用作动词(v.)

She had her baby weaned a year later.
她在一年后才把孩子的奶断掉。

Police weaned him away from drugs.
警察让他逐渐戒毒。

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。

She tried to wean him from playing football.
她试图让他不再踢足球。

权威例句

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.

1. The hospital managed to wean her off the drug.

医院已让她逐步减少依赖这种药。

2. A big issue is how to wean hospitals off their dependence on revenue from user payments.

如何才能使医院断绝“病人付款”这一畴钱方式就是一个大问题。

3. Some pediatricians and speech experts say 12 months is a good time to wean your child from the pacifier because this marks the beginning of a dramatic speech development phase.

一些儿科医生和语言专家说，在宝宝12个月大的时候是给他戒掉奶嘴最好的时机，因为这标志着婴儿戏剧性的语言发展阶段的开始。

4. She plans to wean her baby from breast to bottle soon.

她打算不久之后让她的孩子断掉母乳，改喝瓶装牛奶。

5. The PBOC must make bank borrowing costs more market-driven to improve resource allocation and wean the economy off its reliance on state-led investment, analysts say.

央行必须贯彻由市场主导的银行借贷成本以提升资源配置以及彻底打破经济对国家主导投资的依赖性，分析人员声称。

6. 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。

7. An autoworker fine-tuned some of the best, most fuel-efficient cars in the world, and did his part to help America wean itself off foreign oil.

汽车工人在改迚世界上最好最节油的汽车，为帮助美国减少对外国石油的依赖尽职尽责。

8. Mongolia is trying to wean itself off the handout culture that flourished in previous elections, in which campaigns competed for who could promise the most cash to voters.

蒙古正试图破除之前历届选举中盛行的“撒钱”风气：竞选者争相承诺向选民派发更多的钱。

9. 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。

10. 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。

11. People often email me about the problem and I tell them to gradually wean themselves off and not to switch to a scheme where you pay per hour for online time.

人们常常给我发电子邮件谈及此事，我就告诉他们要慢慢地戒掉网瘾，不要进入付费网站。

12. Not only will it help the country wean itself off its dependence on oil and coal but a large ethanol market in China could help spread wealth to the rural poor, as Brazil has shown, " he said."

这不仅有助于中国减轻对石油和煤炭的依赖，而且在中国形成大规模的乙醇市场，也有助于将财富转移至农村的贫困人口，就像巴西已经做到的那样。

13. Perfect World can be summed up to: Watch a baby still yet to wean off milk goes on journey with his fellow foodies while battling and eating baddies.

完美世界可以总结为：看一个刚断奶的小孩和他的同伴去冒险并战斗吃掉坏人的故事。 这有多难理解？ 每章都有新的食物。

14. The bad news is that central banks are starting to wean markets from the artificial support of years of unprecedented quantitative easing.

而坏消息则是，各国央行正开始撤掉多年来通过空前量化宽松政策给市场提供的人为支持。

15. Steps are being taken in Thailand to wean Buddhist1 monks2 off unhealthy food after a study suggested that almost half of them are overweight.

泰国正在采取各种措施帮佛教僧侣们改掉不健康的饮食习惯，因为已有调查表明，近一半的泰国僧侣超重。

16. The pigs were less trouble to wean too, and the sows easier to rebreed.

仔猪对断奶的应激也更少，母猪也更容易重新配种。

17. He must wean himself from suckling the energy of others and become a vibrant transmitter of energy himself.

他必需自行断绝吸取别人的能量并自己成为一个活跃的能量传送者。

18. Part of you will still want that cigarette, so wean yourself off them gradually.

你还会有点想要香烟，所以要让自己逐渐戒掉。

19. You must wean yourself from smoking.

你必须戒烟。

《21世纪大英汉词典》

20. You must wean yourself from smoking.

你必须戒烟。

《21世纪大英汉词典》

21. wean sb from drugs, drinking, gambling, etc

使某人渐渐戒毒、 戒酒、 戒赌等.

-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考

22. Tess was trying to wean herself from the old life.

泰丝那时正努力使自己摆脱过去的生活。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

23. wean a baby from the mother [breast]

使婴儿断奶

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

24. Often she tried, as gently as might be, to wean him from this fanatic worship of the Muses.

她常常尽量委婉地劝他别这样狂热地崇拜缪斯女神。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

25. She tried to wean him from playing football.

她试图让他不再踢足球。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

26. She tried to wean him away from football.

她要他以后不要再踢足球了。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 翻译参考

27. You know him personally, you wean?

你的意思是你本人就认识他？

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考

28. I have to wean myself from watching TV every night.

我得改掉每天晚上看电视的习惯。

-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考

29. 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。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考

30. wean a person (away) from a bad habit [from bad companions]

使某人弃绝恶习 [离开坏朋友]

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句