lean

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n. 瘦肉, 倾斜, 倾斜度 a. 瘦的, 贫乏的, 歉收的 vi. 倚靠, 倾斜, 依赖 vt. 使倾斜

发音

US /ˈliːn/

词形变化

leans 复数 leans 三单 leaning 现在分词 leaned 过去式 leaned 过去分词 leant 过去式 leant 过去分词 leaner 比较级 leaner leanest leanest 最高级

别名

leane

教材释义与例句

形容词

瘦的；贫乏的，歉收的

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An inclination away from the vertical.

    The trees had various leans toward gaps in the canopy.

  2. 1.

    Meat with no fat on it.

    不可数 可数
  3. 2.

    An organism that is lean in stature.

    可数 生物 不可数

    The intermediates and leans are the predominant morphotypes found at the SE-NHR seamounts […]

  4. 1.

    A recreational drug composed of codeine-promethazine cough syrup mixed with usually soda and associated with the hip-hop culture of the Southern United States.

    美国 俚语 不可数
v. B2 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating.

    倾斜

    不及物

    a leaning column

    She leaned out of the window.

  2. 2.

    To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; often with to, toward, etc.

    I’m leaning towards voting Conservative in the next election.

    The Hispanic vote leans Democratic.

  3. 3.

    To rest or rely, for support, comfort, to use as a hard surface for writing, etc.

    倚靠

    挨

  4. 4.

    To hang outwards.

  5. 5.

    To press against.

    倚

    倚着

  6. 1.

    To thin out (a fuel-air mixture): to reduce the fuel flow into the mixture so that there is more air or oxygen.

adj. B1
  1. 1.

    Slim; not fleshy.

    瘦

    精瘦

  2. 2.

    Having little fat.

    lean steak cuts

  3. 3.

    Having little extra or little to spare; scanty; meagre.

    a lean budget

    a lean harvest

  4. 4.

    Having a low proportion or concentration of a desired substance or ingredient.

    A lean ore hardly worth mining.

    Running on too lean a fuel-air mixture will cause, among other problems, your internal combustion engine to heat up too much.

  5. 5.

    Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; opposed to fat.

    古体 媒体 印刷

    lean copy, matter, or type

  6. 6.

    Efficient, economic, frugal, agile, slimmed-down; pertaining to the modern industrial principles of "lean manufacturing".

    商务

    lean management

    lean manufacturing

    Alcoa is now a lean and agile enterprise, after having split last year into two entities.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 4

list leaning tilt inclination

上位词 1

position
动词

同义词 9

run list tip angle tend tilt slant incline begiven

上位词 10

be put place move set trust position lay bend pose

下位词 9

list weather suffer pitch heel slope incline recline gravitate

近义相关 2

list heel

参见 1

lean on
形容词

同义词 2

thin skimpy

反义词 1

rich

近义相关 10

spare wasted skinny slight slim trim pinched insufficient slender scrawny

参见 2

thin ectomorphic

相关短语

lean on 靠着 lean towards 朝…倾斜,倾向于… lean and mean lean finely textured beef lean client lean clients lean burn lean nitrogen oxide trap lean in lean into lean nitrogen oxide traps lean over backwards 走另一极端, 竭尽全力 lean thinking boneless lean beef trimmings anti-gravity lean

词源

From Middle English lenen (“to lean”), from Old English hleonian, hlinian (“to lean, recline, lie down, rest”), from Proto-West Germanic *hlinēn, from Proto-Germanic *hlināną (“to lean, incline”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley-. Cognate via Proto-Germanic with Middle Dutch leunen (“to lean”), German lehnen (“to lean”); via Proto-Indo-European with climate, cline.

来源：wiktionary