Wean



GRE Barron

解释

GRE 红宝书

• v. ( 孩子) 断奶; 戒掉
• ［英］ v. ( 孩子) 断奶; 戒掉 ( to free from a unwholesome habit or interest)
• ［例］ Wean young people from hooliganism, ( 使年轻人戒除流氓习气)

Webster Collegiate

transitive verb

• Etymology: Middle English wenen, from Old English wenian to accustom, wean; akin to Old English wunian to be used to — more at wont
• Date: before 12th century
• 1. to accustom (as a young child or animal) to take food otherwise than by nursing
• 2. to detach from a source of dependence <being weaned off the medication><wean the bears from human food — Sports Illus.>; also to free from a usually unwholesome habit or interest <wean him off his excessive drinking><settling his soldiers on the land…, weaning them from habits of violence — Geoffrey Carnall>
• 3. to accustom to something from an early age — used in the passive especially with on<students weaned on the Internet for research><I was weaned on greasepaint — Helen Hayes><the principles upon which he had been weaned — J. A. Michener>

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