单词
wean
英 [wi?n]
美[win]
基本信息
- vt. 使断奶；使断念；使放弃
- n. （苏格兰）幼儿
- n. (Wean)人名；(英)威恩
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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;
中文词源
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。
英文词源
- 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 gew?hnen ‘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 gew?hnen "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 abgew?hnen, entw?hnen "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.
双语例句
- 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.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 2. The hospital managed to wean her off the drug.
- 医院已让她逐步减少依赖这种药.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 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.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 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.
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
- 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。
来自柯林斯例句